If on a winter's night

Stories are cut short and readers are dragged into the action in this beguiling novel by Italo Calvino.

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Orfeo

An elderly composer becomes a fugitive suspected of bioterrorism in this lively novel by Richard Powers.

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Maus

The horrors of the Holocaust become a cat-and-mouse metaphor in this graphic novel by Art Spiegelman.

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