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The Circle
DAVE EGGERS

The Circle by Dave Eggers
3852 reviews (2013) (504p)
Amazon Best Books of 2013: Top 100 Editors' Picks
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013

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Book Description
The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.
 
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.


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A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
326 reviews (2012) (328p) (Amazon Top10Lit) (Amazon Top100) (PW Fiction) (NYT100) (NYT Top10) (Kirkus Top25) (MK Top) (NBA) (NYTimes) (Amazon) (ALA)
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418 reviews (2006) (386p) (NBCCA) (TIME) (Amazon)
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
1203 reviews (2000) (496p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) (Amazon 00 C50)
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Dave Eggers Award Stats
Major Prize* Nominations 6  
Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 4  
Pulitzer Prize Wins 0  
Pulitzer Prize Nominations 1 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ·  
National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0  
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 1 What Is the What ·  
National Book Award Wins 0  
National Book Award Nominations 1 A Hologram for the King ·  
Man Booker Prize Wins 0  
Man Booker Prize Nominations 0  
PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0  
PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 0  

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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