The Unnamed is a book about a man afflicted with a debilitating condition — a compulsive need to walk until he collapses from exhaustion. Author Joshua Ferris, who also wrote Then We Came To The End, says he wanted to examine the nature of illness.
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Secrets of Eden, Chris Bohjalian’s dark novel about a couple found dead from an apparent murder-suicide the day after they were baptized into a Vermont church, makes the list at No. 10.
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Andrew Young, the John Edwards political aid asked to claim paternity for the politician’s love child, has written a tell-all book, The Politician, which debuts on the list at No. 6.
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In Maaza Mengiste’s first novel, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze, she tells the story of a nation at war with itself. Mengiste was born in Ethiopia during the early days of the revolution, which, in 1974, brought down the country’s 3,000-year-old monarchy.
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