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What to Read?

Handpicked by our booksellers, these titles all have one thing in common: great writing, from authors at the start of their careers.

Between Man and Beast

Monte Reel

The Big Truck That Went By

Jonathan M. Katz

The Day My Brain Exploded

Ashok Rajamani

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Henry James's 1897 Classic, Recast in the Present

Inspired by Henry James's once avant-garde classic What Maisie Knew, the new film by Scott McGehee and David Siegel introduces the dazzling Onata Aprile as the precocious child through whose eyes we view the feckless adult world. The cast also includes Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsg�rd, Joanna Vanderham, and Steve Coogan.

Khaled Hosseini, the beloved author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, returns this May with an eagerly anticipated new novel, And the Mountains Echoed. We asked him to recommend a few of his favorite books -- those that have inspired him both as a reader and a writer. Check out our featured author page to discover the books that made the cut.