As hope returns, some of our favourite American novels
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Mrs Bridge
Hilarious satire with a darker message
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Cannery Row
A little book to make you happy
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A Little Life
A profoundly moving novel about friendship in the twenty-first century
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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Tsarist Count surviving in revolutionary Russia
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The Sympathizer
Bitingly satirical portrait of post-Vietnam America
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