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NEW OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK!

Oprah chooses The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead for her next book. Discuss it in her group on Goodreads!
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Jay McInerney
The Bright Lights, Big City author's love affair with New York continues in Bright, Precious Days, his third book about the glamorous Calloways.
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Jacqueline Woodson
In the lyrical, '70s-set Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, explores the power of memory, friendship, and the search for home.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1156.Jacqueline_Woodson?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-08&utm_content=woodson_text

READ AN EXCERPT FROM AMY SCHUMER'S NEW BOOK

"I've only had one one-night stand in my life. I'm so sorry to disappoint anyone..."
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NEW GOODREADS HOMEPAGE

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GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Eowyn Ivey's Favorite Books About Mythical Adventure
There's magic, metamorphosis, strange fish, and a punk rock Orpheus in these recs from the To the Bright Edge of the World author.
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B.A. Paris's Favorite Books About Marriages Gone Wrong
Secrets, lies, and murderous urges poison the unions in these selections from the author of Behind Closed Doors.
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Elizabeth Letts's Favorite Books Celebrating the Human Spirit During Wartime
Incredible stories of wartime survival, endurance, and escape make up these picks from the author of The Perfect Horse.
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DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Bryn Greenwood
The controversial relationship between a neglected young girl and a kindhearted ex-con is at the heart of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, an arresting love story.
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BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue (Goodreads Author)
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant struggling to improve life for his family, takes a job as chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a Lehman Brothers executive. Then the financial crisis hits, upending the lives and dreams of all.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/357-best-books-of-the-month-august-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-08&utm_content=botm1_text

The Nix
by Nathan Hill (Goodreads Author)
Samuel—a bored teacher, frustrated novelist, and online gaming addict—must investigate the life of his absent mother, a militant radical who abandoned him as a child, in this novel about family, activism, and Norwegian ghosts.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/357-best-books-of-the-month-august-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-08&utm_content=botm2_text

The Hike
by Drew Magary (Goodreads Author)
Suburban family man Ben goes hiking on a business trip and finds himself trapped in a terrifying realm of demons and killer giants (plus a profane crustacean). Now he's on a life-or-death quest to return home.
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Patient H.M.
by Luke Dittrich
A gripping, haunting study of experimental neurosurgery that focuses on the famous amnesiac patient H.M., who lost his ability to create new memories after a bilateral hippocampectomy performed by Dittrich's grandfather.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/357-best-books-of-the-month-august-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-08&utm_content=botm3_text

The Fire This Time
by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)
The 2015 racially motivated attack on a South Carolina church is among the events referenced in this powerful collection of essays and poems about race in America. Contributors include Claudia Rankine and Jericho Brown.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/357-best-books-of-the-month-august-2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-08&utm_content=botm5_text

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
by Scott Stambach (Goodreads Author)
Ivan, a severely disabled teen born just after Chernobyl, has spent his life in the hospital, keeping his distance from everyone. Enter Polina, a spirited girl with leukemia, who challenges him to risk connection, love, and hope.
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GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
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Want your words to reach millions of people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the POETRY! group and vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is this month's winner!

Coal Town
by Ryan Stone

Birds don't stop in this town.
I see them fly past, black peppering
blue, going someplace. I've given up
dreaming wings. This town
will know my bones. Condoms
sell well in Joe's corner store—boredom breeds
but breeding's a trap, a twitch in the smile
of those steel-eyed shrews
who linger late after church.
I walked half a day, out past the salt flats,
after they closed the movie house down. Smoked
the joint she'd brought back from college
when she returned to bury my dad.
I remember how pale her fingers lay
across my father's hands—
coal miner's hands, tarred like his lungs;
like this town.

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The Goodreads Editorial Team


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