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Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World, Is This Tomorrow, With or Without You, 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.

Her 13th novel DAYS OF WONDER will be published by Algonquin/Hatchette in the spring of 2024.

The winner of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant, a second prize winner in Goldenberg Fiction P ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 25,146 ratings · 3,649 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pictures of You 3.45 avg rating — 8,220 ratings — published 2011 — 28 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 3.65 avg rating — 4,491 ratings — published 2013 — 19 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
	Cruel Beautiful World 3.82 avg rating — 3,873 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Girls in Trouble 3.72 avg rating — 2,499 ratings — published 2004 — 12 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
	With or Without You 3.64 avg rating — 2,071 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Days of Wonder 3.74 avg rating — 1,163 ratings — 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
	Coming Back to Me 3.60 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 2001 — 15 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 3.87 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1997 — 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
	The Haunted Clubhouse (Wishbone Mysteries, #2) by Caroline Leavitt (Goodreads Author), Rick Duffield 3.98 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1997 — 8 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 3.75 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1993 — 8 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

by Pam Houston (Goodreads Author)

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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

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The Flicker of Old Dreams

by Susan Henderson (Goodreads Author)

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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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“Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

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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%

59 total votes

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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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