![Juliet by Anne Fortier](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-fortier-190x130.jpg)
By Anne Fortier
464 pages; Ballantine
Call this debut novel Julie and Juliet: It's about a contemporary woman descended from the model for Shakespeare's heroine.
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![I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-lippman-190x130.jpg)
By Laura Lippman
384 pages; William Morrow
The popular mystery-series author's latest stand-alone: a terrifying story about a death-row inmate obsessed with the only victim he left alive.
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![Designated Fat Girl by Jennifer Joyner](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-joyner-190x130.jpg)
By Jennifer Joyner
264 pages; Skirt!
A familiar tale—food-obsessed woman finally conquers her demons, almost—is noteworthy for its memoirist's brutally frank voice.
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![Hollywood: A Third Memoir by Larry McMurtry](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-mcmurtry-190x130.jpg)
By Larry McMurtry
160 pages; Simon & Schuster
Just as winning as the first two installments of the Lonesome Dove author's lifelong reminiscences.
![The Lady Matador's Hotel by Cristina Garcia](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-garcia-190x130.jpg)
By Cristina García
224 pages; Scribner
A multicultural group of strangers gathers in a Central American hotel in this exotic, lush, and sensual novel from the author of Dreaming in Cuban.
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![A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-skibell-190x130.jpg)
By Joseph Skibell
608 pages; Algonquin
An irresistible romp about a lovelorn 19th-century doctor who falls in with Sigmund Freud—and some dangerously attractive women.
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![Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-truong-190x130.jpg)
By Monique Truong
304 pages; Random House
A deeply compassionate and artfully crafted novel about being foreign and family at the same time—by the writer whose debut, The Book of Salt, swept us away.
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![Ape House by Sara Gruen](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-gruen-190x130.jpg)
By Sara Gruen
320 pages; Spiegel & Grau
From the author of Water for Elephants, a novel about bonobos who are smarter and more interesting than their human "caretakers."
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![Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-kalotay-190x130.jpg)
By Daphne Kalotay
480 pages; HarperCollins
This tale of a Russian ballerina who defected to Boston is a history lesson inside an evocative novel about art and betrayal.
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![Book of Days by Emily Fox Gordon](https://static.oprah.com/images/201009/omag/201009-omag-book-ten-gordon-190x130.jpg)
By Emily Fox Gordon
320 pages; Spiegel & Grau
These accessible yet sophisticated essays on modern life are so astute, you'll think the author has been hiding in your closet.
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