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Novel Novelists Fiction about Writers
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A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
While vacationing in Istanbul, English novelist Charles Latimer decides to investigate the intriguing past of one of Europe's most sinister criminals, the notorious Dimitrios, a search that will lead him into a shadowy web of espionage, drugs, intrigue, and assassination. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
The intimate journals of Logan Mountstuart--author, spy, and man of the world--chronicle his eight-five years of life, from his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, to his education at Oxford and the publication of his first book, to his wartime exploits as an agent for Naval Intelligence, to his career as an art dealer, to his serene retirement in France. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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A Ladder to the Sky
by John Boyne
Aspiring writer Maurice Swift, whose desire for fame exceeds his talent, uses a chance meeting with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann in a West Berlin hotel in 1988 to obtain secrets about Ackermann's wartime activities, which becomes material for his first novel.
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Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.
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Trust no one : a thriller
by Paul Cleave
Diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, a famous crime writer struggles to differentiate between his own reality and the frightening plotlines he has created for his books
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The Noel Diary
by Richard Paul Evans
When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures.
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Dune Road
by Jane Green
A single mom working for a famously reclusive author in a tony Connecticut beach town stumbles on a secret that many of the eccentric and moneyed locals would love to get their hands on.
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Beach read
by Emily Henry
An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each others’ styles. Original.
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November 9
by Colleen Hoover
When Fallon and aspiring novelist Ben meet and fall in love the day before Fallon's cross-country move, they vow to meet on the same date every year, until Fallon suspects Ben is fabricating their relationship to create the perfect plot twist
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Miss Austen
by Gill Hornby
Cassandra Austen hunts down a trove of letters written by her deceased sister, Jane, and confronts the buried secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but also about Cassandra herself. Maps.
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Misery : a novel
by Stephen King
Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to life
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The Drowning
by Camilla Läckberg
Christian Thydell's dream has come true. His debut novel, The Mermaid, has been published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever? When crime writer Erica Falk, who helped Christian discover and develop his talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but also the young author's mysterious past.
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Lost
by Gregory Maguire
Famed children's author Winifred Rudge attempts to write a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper and finds herself the object of spectral phenomena as she arrives in London to find her stepcousin John Comestor missing under mysterious circumstances. Reprint.
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One true sentence
by Craig McDonald
In the wake of a string of deaths in 1924 Paris that is targeting literary magazine editors, novelist Hector Lassiter joins a group of prominent crime writers, including an alluring Brinke Devlin, to tackle the mystery. By the award-winning author of Print the Legend.
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The Novel
by James A. Michener
Lukas Yoder, a novelist who has had a long, successful career, has written what he believes to be his final book - until tragedy strikes his community and he becomes obsessed with writing about it.... Yoder's editor must fight to preserve her integrity - and her author - as her firm becomes the target of a corporate takeover.
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Nine perfect strangers
by Liane Moriarty
At a remote health resort, nine strangers and their enigmatic host become subjects of interest to former best-selling novelist Frances Welty, who develops uncomfortable doubts about the resort's real agenda
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Jack of Spades : a tale of suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
Enjoying his successful career and devoted family, a best-selling writer secretly authors a masochist-themed series that threatens his respectable community standing and becomes subject to a plagiarism lawsuit. By the award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys.
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Forever is the worst long time
by Camille Pagán
When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa Lou Bell, he's sure he's just found the love of his life. There's just one problem: she's engaged to his oldest friend, Rob. So James toasts their union and swallows his desire. As the years pass, James's dreams always seem just out of reach--he can't finish that novel, can't mend his relationship with his father, can't fully commit to a romantic relationship. He just can't move on. But after betrayal fractures Lou's once-solid marriage, she turns to James for comfort. When Lou and James act on their long-standing mutual attraction, the consequences are more heartbreaking--and miraculous--than either of them could have ever anticipated. Then life throws James one more curveball, and he, Rob, and Lou are forced to come to terms with the unexpected ways in which love and loss are intertwined
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The trap
by Melanie Raabe
A reclusive best-selling author, haunted by the unsolved murder of her younger sister, spots her sister's killer on television and resolves to use the plot of her next novel to set an irresistible trap for him
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Three-martini lunch
by Suzanne Rindell
In 1958 Greenwich Village, three ambitious young people—Cliff, the son of a successful book editor; Eden, who dreams of being an editor; and Miles, a talented black writer from Harlem—will do anything to succeed in the competitive world of book publishing and learn that they must live with the consequences of their choices. By the author of The Other Typist.
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The Ghost Writer
by Philip Roth
A young writer in search of a spiritual father, Nathan Zuckerman views E. I. Lonoff, who lives with his wife and his student-mistress in rural Massachusetts, as an embodiment of the ideal of artistic integrity and independence
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Quichotte : a novel
by Salman Rushdie
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where "Anything-Can-Happen." Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
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The thirteenth tale : a novel
by Diane Setterfield
Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long.
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The fugitives
by Christopher Sorrentino
Retreating to a quiet Michigan town to escape a scandal and finish an overdue novel, Sandy Mulligan becomes fascinated by a local Native American storyteller who an attractive Chicago reporter believes may be tied to an audacious theft. By the National Book Award finalist author of Trance.
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Lost for words : a novel
by Edward St. Aubyn
A frenzied competition for a major British literary award pits several colorful characters against one another and is complicated by an accidental entry, a scandal involving a judge, and a vengeful reject
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Quicksand : a novel
by Steve Toltz
An aspiring-author cop uses as his inspiration his best friend, a hapless criminal with a knack for misfortunes who is trying to win back his ex-wife. By the author of A Fraction of the Whole.
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The book of Joe
by Jonathan Tropper
After writing a novel that lampooned nearly everyone in his hometown, an author is forced to return to that same town to care for his father and discovers that people have not forgotten the indignities he heaped upon them. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Afterworlds
by Scott Westerfeld
In alternating chapters, Darcy Patel navigates the publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges
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Eliza and Her Monsters
by Francesca Zappia
When the anonymous teen creator of a wildly popular webcomic is tempted by a school newcomer to pursue real-world relationships, everything she has worked so hard to build crumbles in the wake of their highly publicized romance. By the author of Made You Up. Simultaneous eBook.
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