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To celebrate the end of 2011, Goodreads chats with some the year's biggest authors! Also, browse our past interviews to pad your holiday wish list.
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A gutsy heroine in a bleak, near-future Chicago threatens to upset the delicate balance of five ruling factions in Divergent, a dystopian novel by a 23-year-old prodigy.
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Get a glimpse of the Roaring Twenties in The Paris Wife, a historical novel about the love life of literary giant Ernest Hemingway narrated by his first wife, Hadley.
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Do you know any psychopaths? Find out about their manipulative and narcissistic ways in The Psychopath Test, a nonfiction exposé of madness by a daring journalist.
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Two magicians compete in a decades-long duel with unknown stakes in The Night Circus, a fantasy-laced tale full of twins, kittens, and phantasmagoric attractions.
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After a year in Iraq, U.S. soldier Buchholz wrote One Hundred and One Nights, a novel about daily life in the war-torn country and its undercurrent of violence.
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Newlywed Bertsche is thrilled to set up house with her husband in Chicago but saddened to leave friends behind in other cities. In this memoir, she challenges herself to go on 52 friend dates and chronicles the mixed results.
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Artist and illustrator Beach pushes minimalism to an extreme in this short fiction collection. Each evocative vignette or quirky character study is told in 420 characters or fewer—the maximum length of a Facebook status.
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When Sarah Miller agrees to help a dying mugging victim, the favor quickly turns dangerous. Dark agents are murdering the guardians of an ancient magic one by one, and now they are chasing Sarah in this gory thriller.
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The Roman Londinium brothels of A.D. 43, Henry VIII's Buggery Act, Oscar Wilde's indecency trial—social historian Arnold leaves no debauched stone unturned in this lusty account of nearly 2,000 years of sex in London.
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Luis Fiore goes duck hunting with a bottle of gin and ends up shooting his wife twice. Newly available in English, this modern Argentine classic dissects a crime from the perspectives of four characters connected to the murder.
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In a future Los Angeles beset by war, plagues, and natural disasters, 15-year-old June belongs to an elite military family. When her brother is murdered, June chases a criminal from the slums in this young adult novel.
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Using volunteer teams made up of disadvantaged American teens, this nonprofit builds schools in developing nations such as Haiti, Nicaragua, and Mali.
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Want your words to reach 5 million people? Goodreads and the
¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest.
Join the ¡POETRY! group to vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists.
You can also submit a poem
for consideration. Here is our December winner!
The sun was hotter.
You can tell.
Look at us squinting against it in photos then.
Everything washed out by the glare,
cheekbones, jawlines,
all detail surrendered.
Dazzled,
we could be anybody.
The gardens, look, they're parched.
It hurt to walk on the grass.
We lay in scorched backyards
slathering butter on our chests,
chain-smoking, eating fluorescent cheesies,
swilling scarlet soda,
everyone burned red raw.
Oblivious,unformed,
we felt nothing could go wrong.
Our lives lay ahead of us.
Men were above us,
landing on the moon.
Read more poetry
With love,
Jessica, Elizabeth, and the Goodreads Team
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