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Bellocq's Ophelia
All the Flowers Kneeling
The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven
Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems
Dear Mark
Landscape Portrait Figure Form
Public Figures
Secrets from the Center of the World: Volume 17
Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems
The Darker Fall: Poems
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Dear Edward Such a Fun Age Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020

The Mezzanine
Vanishing Point
The Scarlet Letter
A House for Mr. Biswas
The Sea, the Sea
Thirst for Love
Giovanni's Room
Sula
Jane Eyre
Laughter in the Dark
Dangerous Liaisons
Cousin Bette (Revised)
The Vegetarian
The Duchess of Malfi, the White Devil, the Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Critical)
Dictee (Second Edition, Reissue, Restored)
Madder: A Memoir in Weeds
Spectacle
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
Bright Archive
Counternarratives
Pilot Impostor
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
A History of My Brief Body
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
Silver Road: Maps, Essays and Calligraphies
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Mothering Sunday: A Romance
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Dept. of Speculation
Fates and Furies
Less
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Elizabeth Costello: Fiction
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
Wonder Boys
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
The Topeka School
Leaving the Atocha Station
Bitch Planet Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine
How Long 'Til Black Future Month?: Stories
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Bloodchild and Other Stories
The Left Hand of Darkness
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Blazing World Illustrated
Aspects of the Novel
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
The Argonauts
The Empathy Exams: Essays
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT
Red Cavalry
Waiting
Typical American
People of the Book
Liars and Saints
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (Revised) (Revised)
The Year of Magical Thinking
Cleanness
Fra Keeler
A Visit from the Goon Squad The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Train Dreams: A Novella
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The Best Novels of the Decade

Pure Life
Among the Thugs
The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50th Anniversary Edition
Imperfect: An Improbable Life
Ball Four: The Final Pitch
Open. Memorias
The Sport of Kings
The White Boy Shuffle
So Many Olympic Exertions
Sportsworld: An American Dreamland (Revised)
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
On Bullfighting
A Fan's Notes
Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports
Fat City
Citizen: An American Lyric
"exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Between the World and Me
The Fire Next Time