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  Byliner Originals & Byliner Fiction

  Great writers. Great stories. Readable in a single sitting.

  Between Heaven and Hell by Bob Shacochis

  43* by Jeff Greenfield

  Mob Fest ’29 by Bill Tonelli

  Choke Collar by Margaret Atwood

  Primitives by Joe McGinniss

  An Arrangement of Light by Nicole Krauss

  The Boy Vanishes by Jennifer Haigh

  The Fire Horse by Elizabeth Mitchell

  All My Love, Samples Later by Craig Vetter

  Everyone’s Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby

  How to Get Away with Murder in America by Evan Wright

  The Ghost by Paige Williams

  After Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger

  Farthest North by Todd Balf

  Don’t Eat Cat by Jess Walter

  Lifeboat No. 8 by Elizabeth Kaye

  Sober Is My New Drunk by Paul Carr

  I’m Starved for You by Margaret Atwood

  One Way Forward by Lawrence Lessig

  Death Comes to Happy Valley by Jonathan Mahler

  The Secret World of Saints by Bill Donahue

  Rules for Virgins by Amy Tan

  A Killing in Iowa by Rachel Corbett

  Joan by Sara Davidson

  Lady with a Past by Elizabeth Mitchell

  Sleeping with Famous Men by Elizabeth Kaye

  The Cartel by Taylor Branch

  The Getaway Car by Ann Patchett

  Cooking Solves Everything by Mark Bittman

  The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin by Elizabeth Mitchell

  The Baby Chase by Holly Finn

  Planet Killers by Tad Friend

  I Hope Like Heck by Michael Solomon

  And the War Came by Jamie Malanowski

  Into the Forbidden Zone by William T. Vollmann

  Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer