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Recommendations:

1. Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road, a trilogy about World War I by Pat Barker. This scholarly Englishwoman has reimagined World War I through the eyes of poets, psychiatrists, working-class upstarts and homosexuals. You may be surprised, even freaked out.

2. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey. This new book is becoming a bestseller in independent bookstores, according to Publishers Weekly. Peter Carey's novels are thoughtful, crafty, vivid, detailed, devastating. Not to be attitudinous, but read Oscar and Lucinda before you see the movie.

3. Caucasia, a new book by Danzy Senna, set in Boston in the sixties and exploring the bizarre but all too real world of American racial relations from the point of view of a young black girl passing as white.

4. Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy. From the cover this can be mistaken for another fey retread of the quirky-family novel. It's not.

5. The God in Flight by Laura Argiri. A perpetual favorite of mine, this novel is about high passions, art, death, queer sex, consumption and Yale at the turn of the century. It doesn't get any more fun than this.

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