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Sleepwalk
A Novel
2022
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Sleepwalk is a high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big-hearted mercenary, from beloved and acclaimed award-winning novelist Dan Chaon.“[Chaon] does madcap well and likes his characters, even the killers—especially the killers.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceAn NPR “Book of the Day”
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Await Your Reply
A Novel
2009
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BONUS: This edition contains an Await Your Reply discussion guide.The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways–and with unexpected consequences–in acclaimed author Dan Chaon’s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can’t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place,...
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Ill Will
A Novel
2017
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this “haunting [and] strikingly original” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.“Ingenious . . . [Ill Will] walks along a garrote stretched taut between Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock.”—The Washington Post
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Stay Awake
Stories
2012
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“Eerily beautiful . . . [Chaon] is the modern day John Cheever.”—Boston Sunday Globe**“Powerful and disturbing . . . The shocks in this collection are many.”—The Washington Pos**tThese haunting, suspenseful stories by acclaimed author Dan Chaon feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls—lost, fragile, searching characters who wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced in...
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One of Us
A Novel
2025
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"A captivating new novel... As One of Us gleefully samples multiple registers — comic, tragic, satiric, elegiac, poetic — its mesh of archaic and contemporary styles becomes something quite arresting, a joy to read."—Hamilton Cain, The New York TimesA playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about** orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, fro...
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Among the Missing
Stories
2009
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sharp and haunting collection of twelve stories about people who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place.“Unforgettable . . . hums with life and wry humor . . . The stories sneak resolutely up on you, like new weather that hits before you know it.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)Each story in A...
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You Remind Me of Me
A Novel
2004
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A “delicately hypnotic [and] haunting” (The New York Times) novel that weaves together the lives of four very different characters to explore identity, fate, and the ties that bind, from the award-winning author of Among the Missing“Remarkable . . . You Remind Me of Me succeeds because it makes us feel its characters’ pain and inhabit a world in which desperate measures often seem like the only ones available.”—The Washington ...
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2012
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Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the...
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2007
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Thirteen sharp, poignant stories detailing the almost panicked angst of the American generation as they approach thirty, from the New York Times bestselling author of Among the Missing“Remarkable . . . solid, moving, and pitch-perfect . . . Each story is a marvel of complexity, dense with meaning and nuance.”—The Cleveland Plain DealerStruggling with gaps between youthful expectations and adult experiences, these ...
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The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
Unexpected Tales of the Fantastic & Other Odd Musings
2007
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Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many othersContains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, the thrilling Nalo Hopkinson, the shockingly good Karen Russell, the unnerving James Sallis, and dozens of uncanny others, as well as useful lists of many kinds and straight-sho...
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Mr. X
A Novel
2010
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BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed thriller of supernatural horror from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story, Koko, and The Talisman.“Ghastly, hide-your-eyes horror; when Peter Straub turns on all jets, no one in the scream factory can equal him.”—Stephen KingBRITISH FANTASY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVELEvery year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan has a paralyzi...
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Ill Will
A Novel
Unabridged
14 hours 56 min
2017
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Wall Street Journal • NPR • The New York Times • Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post ...
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