Wild and Distant Seas
By: Tara Karr Roberts
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha…
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1. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- literary fiction
- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
2. The Road from Belhaven
By: Margot Livesey
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
3. Finding Margaret Fuller
By: Allison Pataki
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more
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- 19th century
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
4. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
5. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
6. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
7. A Short Walk Through a Wide World
By: Douglas Westerbeke
3.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more
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- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
8. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
9. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
10. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
11. Wild and Distant Seas
By: Tara Karr Roberts
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more
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- literary fiction
- retellings
- magical realism
- 19th century
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
12. A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
By: Katherine Howe
3.73
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one youn… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
13. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
14. The Waters
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
15. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
By: Helen Simonson
3.96
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Turtle House
By: Amanda Churchill
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
17. All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
By: Joel H. Morris
3.72
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about th… read more
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- literary fiction
- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
18. The Curse of Pietro Houdini
By: Derek B. Miller
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini
19. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
20. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
21. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
