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Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World (out in paperback August 8th! 2017) s This Tomorrow and Pictures of You (Algonquin Books), which. Pictures of You was on the Best Books of the Year lists from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks and Kirkus Reviews. It was also a Costco Pennie's Pick. Is This Tomorrow was long listed for the Main Readers Prize, a WNBA Reading group Choice, A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick/Editor's Choice, a Jewish Book Club Pic and the winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award.

The winner of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant, a second prize winner in Goldenberg Fiction Prize, A Sundance Screenwriting Lab Finalist, a Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fell ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 22,873 ratings · 3,343 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pictures of You 3.44 avg rating — 7,939 ratings — published 2011 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is This Tomorrow 3.64 avg rating — 4,282 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls in Trouble 3.72 avg rating — 2,475 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming Back to Me 3.61 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prince and the Pooch 3.84 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunted Clubhouse (Wishbone Mysteries, #2) by Caroline Leavitt (Goodreads Author), Rick Duffield really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into Thin Air 3.73 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robinhound Crusoe 3.99 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Other Lives 3.62 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meeting Rozzy Halfway 3.94 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A brave book of love and understanding: A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays

Listen up because this gorgeous, luminous, tear-your-heart-out and patch-it-together book is a love letter to the author’s brave transgender daughter. Please buy copies for friends, buy copies for yourself, buy copies for those who might rail against this so that they might read, open their minds and understand.

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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

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The Flicker of Old Dreams

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Caroline Leavitt said: " I first read this novel in manuscript, and I was so completely undone by it in the best possible way that I pushed the author into changing agents and she immediately got a book deal. It's about a female mortician, about a childhood tragedy that stil ...more "

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Is it harder for a female writer/artist to gain attention than for a male? (I always say a female writes about domesticity and it's then dubbed "women's fiction," meaning men won't want to read it, and if a male does, it's Jonathan Franzen and consid ...more
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Just extraordinary. About aging, about being a woman, about what we see and what we assume that we are seeing. I loved Gangi's The Next and Carry the Dog is even better, richer, more profound. Bea is hitting sixty and she needs to come to terms with ...more
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Caroline Leavitt asked a question about The Happiness Thief: I saw the amazing review of this book in Mystery Scene Magazine, where they said this was "ferociously paced, evocatively written puzzle-box wrapped in a paranoia tale that rivets! Suspense fans will be tempted to devour this in one sitting." I instantly bought this book and adored it! How did you do the suspense so brilliantly? I never knew what was coming!
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So, so smart and edgy--a page-turning mystery about memory, family and memoir with an ending you'll never see coming. Absolutely loved this book. ...more
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Hi, on Wednesday, Feb 17 at 7 EST, I will be hosted by Waltham Public Library and talking about my life during and after coma, and how I came to write With Or Without You. Hope you will all come! https://youtu.be/84ZPZIB4EXQ ...more
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“Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?”
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“Why doesn’t he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn’t it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

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November Side Read Nominations- 1st Poll

Top 5 books move onto the 2nd poll!!

Salt to the Sea

by Ruta Sepetys

16 votes, 27.1%

The Snow Child

by Eowyn Ivey

8 votes, 13.6%

The Nest

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

5 votes, 8.5%

Yes Please

by Amy Poehler

5 votes, 8.5%

Eventide

by Kent Haruf

4 votes, 6.8%

The Space Between Us

by Thrity Umrigar

4 votes, 6.8%

The Midwife of Hope River

by Patricia Harman

3 votes, 5.1%

The Ex

by Alafair Burke

3 votes, 5.1%

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

2 votes, 3.4%

Let the Great World Spin

by Colum McCann

2 votes, 3.4%

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner

2 votes, 3.4%

The House on Tradd Street

by Karen White

2 votes, 3.4%

The Tin Flute

by Gabrielle Roy

1 vote, 1.7%

Pictures of You

by Caroline Leavitt

1 vote, 1.7%

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

1 vote, 1.7%

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“Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Cruel Beautiful World

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