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Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana, has a teenage daughter with expensive tastes, and no money. British intelligence recruits him. Having nothing to report, he invents a network of agents out of the phone book and sends London drawings of…

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz

Díaz’s 2007 first novel, which won the Pulitzer. Oscar de León is an overweight, lovelorn Dominican-American kid in New Jersey — a science fiction and fantasy obsessive who wants, more than anything, to fall in love. The book follows him…