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Ten Best First Novels

Posted Oct 18, 2012

Booklist magazine, published by the American Library Association, has published its annual list of “Best First Novels.” Here’s your chance to read the inventive and fresh fiction of emerging writers.

Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson

The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller

Forgotten Country, by Catherine Chung

The Infinite Tides, by Christian Kiefer

The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman

Mountains of the Moon, by I. J. Kay

Tell the Wolves I’m Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt

That’s Not a Feeling, by Dan Josefson

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce

When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man, by Nick Dybek

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