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Jean Hanff Korelitz' The Plot is Trending at the Library.
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If you enjoyed it, or if you're waiting for it, try one of these great read-alikes!
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A ladder to the sky : a novel
by John Boyne
An aspiring writer meets a celebrated novelist in a hotel in 1988 and uses the man's long-held secret. A first novel. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Available in print and on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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Book of numbers : a novel
by Joshua Cohen
Hired by a dying tech company tycoon to ghostwrite his memoirs, failed novelist Josh Cohen learns the history of the man's profoundly influential company before being initiated into the high-stakes truth behind the autobiography project.
Available on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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Potboiler
by Jesse Kellerman
Torn between envy and grief when his oldest friend dies, college professor Arthur struggles with his failed ambitions while reflecting on his late friend's successes and marriage to a woman Arthur loves, with whom he reconnects over a series of surreal events. By the award-winning author of The Executor.
Available in print
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Dear Committee Members : a novel
by Julie Schumacher
Enduring budget cuts and the favoritism of other departments at a small liberal arts college, literature professor Jason Fitger despairs of his writing ambitions and imposed role in a star pupil's would-be opus while writing wryly comic, passive-aggressive letters to students and colleagues.
Available in print and on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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You : a novel
by Caroline Kepnes
Meeting at an East Village bookstore, aspiring writer Guinevere Beck and store employee Joe embark on an intimate relationship, only to suffer deadly consequences when their passion spirals out of control.
Available in print and on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
An innovative novel captures 10 conversations involving the narrator, a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Jack of spades : a tale of suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
Enjoying his successful career and devoted family, a best-selling writer secretly authors a masochist-themed series that threatens his respectable community standing and becomes subject to a plagiarism lawsuit. By the award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys.
Available in print and on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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Invisible
by Paul Auster
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and a student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker is caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
Available on Overdrive
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River under the road
by Scott Spencer
Meeting at a vast Hudson River estate, two couples become estranged by unexpected successes and reactions that shape the lives of diverse friends and family members over the course of two decades.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Gone girl : a novel
by Gillian Flynn
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
Available in print and on audiobook CD, Overdrive, and eReadIllinois
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Or try another by Jean Hanff Korelitz:
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You should have known
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
A successful New York City oncologist with the perfect family she always wanted has her life turned upside after her husband goes missing and a chain of horrible revelations sends her reeling, in this new novel from the author of Admission.
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