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The House in the Pines
Two young women dropped dead in front of the same man, and the only witness cannot trust her own memory.
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The House of Eve
Two 1950s women, one facing a pregnancy that would end her scholarship, the other marrying into a Black elite that judges her.
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The House on Mango Street
A girl's year in a Chicago barrio, built from fragments that add up to a decision about her life.
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The House on the Borderland
A recluse's manuscript records swine-things besieging his house and a vision of the death of the solar system.
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The Human Stain
A classics professor is destroyed for a word he did not mean, while guarding a secret nobody suspects.
1 recommender
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
A colonial war in six declarations, written by a historian with his family's papers to hand.
The Hunger Games
In a dystopian future, teenager Katniss volunteers for a televised fight to the death and becomes a symbol of rebellion.
1 recommender
The Husbands
The attic keeps producing new husbands, which turns out to be a very sharp question about settling.
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