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Dear Friends and Fans of Greenlight,
Each year, we at Greenlight Bookstore compile an opinionated "best of" list: the titles we most recommend for reading and holiday giving. The diverse, well-read, and eloquent Greenlight staff offer their own thoughts on what makes each book so special. The complete list of 80+ Holiday Picks is available in
on our website, and a selection will be featured in a printed catalog in the store.
For the next few weeks, we'll be sharing our list of picks with you via email, one category at a time: Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Chapter Books and YA, Cookbooks, Graphic Novels, Big Gift Books, and Little Gift Books. And we'll include some holiday ideas, information, and tips in each email as well.
We're starting out with our favorites in
Fiction! We're fortunate that it's been an excellent year for great stories and great writers. Many titles are available in autographed editions at no extra charge.
Click on any of the titles below for easy ordering online, or stop by the store to browse, explore, and discuss. And we'd love to hear about your own favorites on social media, where we'll be discussing the year in books; see left column to find us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or Facebook. Happy reading and giving this holiday season!
Best,
Greenlight Bookstore
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Signed copies are available where noted. When ordering online, please indicate in the Order Comments field at checkout if you would like a signed copy.
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by Truman Capote
I've always been a fan of Capote's stories, and this collection of early nuggets is no exception. From the start, Capote's language and wit are taut and sharp in a way that nearly makes you hate him. I'm sure he wouldn't have had it any other way.
(Jarrod)
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by Percival Everett
 With this new collection, Mr. Everett provides a warm tapestry of happenings set in the American West. As with his last story collection, he paints the human condition with a gentle brush, always reflective and controlled, never pat. He writes characters of color neutrally. It is something I religiously strive for in my writing. His characters are everyday people thrust into situations that require more of themselves than they ever thought possible. If you have a loved one who is a connoisseur of short stories, this book can only satisfy their hunger.
(Dante)
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by Lauren Groff
 Marriage and the creative life are well-trod enough subjects to rouse skepticism in some circles, but Groff transcends such skepticism through a frantically lyrical prose and a slippery, wandering third-person narration (closely tracking a main character's thoughts, then nimbly skipping around a party, then making knowing Greek chorus interpolations, and so on). This is an excellent and dazzling account of a marriage told from each side in turn, a scintillating tale of Rashomon-agamy.
(Matt)
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by Garth Risk Hallberg
 Hallberg uses the sweeping and propulsive structure of the film noir murder mystery and short, fragmented chapters to make a huge book well-suited to binge culture, wonderfully fit for both nibbles and feasts.
City on Fire deftly weaves through a wealth of well-drawn characters, from the scummy punk basements of 1970s New York to its corporate boardrooms, at a time when both anarchists and executives started acting under the Rotten-ian belief, "there's no future." (Matt)
SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
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by David Mitchell
 A spooky sort of sidequel to Mitchell's previous novel
Bone Clocks, Slade House continues to blend
outré genre elements with Mitchell's inimitable ear for dialogue and character work. It's something akin to Mike Leigh directing The Matrix. Like the bickering atemporal siblings at its center, Mitchell has created another psychic environment from which the reader may find it hard to escape.
(Matt)
SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
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edited by Lorrie Moore
 This is a wonderful collection of carefully handpicked stories, compiled and edited by Lorrie Moore. And who better to do the job than a contemporary master of the form herself? In these pages you will find stories by revered writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Hemingway, Faulkner, Junot Diaz and Jhumpa Lahiri. There are stories here of such varying range and wit, some deeply unsettling and dark, others cloaked as light and unintimidating. But you can be sure that each story will mark you with its powers, seep under your skin and do what stories do best, change you.
(Maya)
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by J. Ryan Stradel
 This is one of my favorite novels of the year, in a very good year for novels. Stradel's debut circles around a Midwestern chef savant and the people - and foods - that touch her life, and manages to create a picture of the American food revolution of the past 25 years, and of its intersections with class, economics, family, and culture. Beautifully structured, affectionately and hilariously written, brilliantly subtexted, and satisfying as a perfect bowl of soup,
Kitchens is a great gift for foodies, fiction lovers, aunts, cousins, party hosts, bosses, and pretty much everyone else.
(Jessica)
SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
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by Karine Tuil
 This page-turning international novel was a bestseller in France and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Now translated into English, it reads big in scope. Centered around a self-made immigrant named Tahir and the ways he's navigated success in the United States, it spans his childhood in Tunisia and his time in Paris but it mostly focuses on his life in New York, where he's become a successful lawyer and has married into an elite family, but he isn't everything he appears to be. This book shows, doesn't tell about broad topics like fidelity, love, honesty, deception, international racism, entitlement, and what it means to be successful.
(Rebecca)
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by Joy Williams
 This is a gathering of some of Joy Williams's best and most revered stories. For any reader, be it a longstanding admirer of William's fiction or someone newly acquainted with her name, this publication is undoubtedly a book event of the year. The stories here are playful and unsettling, the tension, when it's there, is underhanded and slyly deployed. Characters amble and get lost; they are dreamers and self-deceiving, uncannily helpless in both love and loneliness. Whether the stories are set on Florida beaches, in the Arizona Desert or the seasonal New England countryside, they seem to take place in a world not quite as we know it, but rather as it emerges from the inscrutable and subject landscape of the characters' minds. Each of the stories are little proofs of something acutely felt and undeniably lived.
(Maya)
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by Hanya Yanagihara
 What can I say? This is the best book I've read in EIGHT YEARS. If you are feeling in the mood to have your entire brain/heart/life be dominated by the most soul-wrenching, endlessly inspiring story of friendship, trauma, aging, loyalty, healing, and human expanses/limitations of the century, then you should probably cop this joint. And definitely buy AT LEAST two more to cast out to a friend/lover/family member so you have a built-in support group for what will undoubtedly be one of the most difficult and rewarding reading experiences of your liggity life.
(Angel)
SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
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Greenlight's First Editions Club
The best way to get the best of fiction, all year round!
 If you like the fiction recommended in this email -- or you know of a fiction lover who likes keeping up with what's new and great -- you'll love Greenlight's
First Editions Club!
Not just for collectors, the
First Editions Club is great for any voracious reader or lover of printed books. The program promises the books we think are the best each month: readable, important, conversation-starting, enjoyable, thought-provoking, a valuable part of our literary culture.
Each month, Greenlight picks just ONE book newly published in hardcover, and sends out autographed hardcover copies to every
First Editions Club subscriber. Many of the titles in this year's Holiday Picks were also First Editions Club selections in 2015, and many picks go on to win major awards.
You can purchase a one-time, six-month subscription as a gift, or sign up (yourself or some lucky recipient) for an ongoing subscription, charged monthly. Shipping and store pickup options are available.
Take a look at our
First Editions Club page for more information, and a look at our past selections. And feel free to
email us if you have questions.
A
First Editions Club subscription is an incredible gift for any book lover this holiday, and a great way to fill 2016 with wonderful new books!
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