The Guest Book
By: Sarah Blake
3.61
Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition
An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout gener…
Want to Read $ 11.99"And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
"The morning had started. Someone else was out there, threading the day into cloth."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
"Ghost stories belong to the middle-aged, thought it's always the young who play the dramas."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
"Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
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1. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
2. The Princess of Las Vegas
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
3. Homecoming
By: Kate Morton
4.07
Format: 547 pages, Hardcover
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the groun… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Stress can make even the most loving mother lose control."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"What is the truth anyway?" Jess had once been asked by a curious friend. "It's what happened." "According to whom?"-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"There's other ways to travel." She was right. He had books, and there was no barrier to the places he could visit in his own mind."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"Bad things happen to the best of people, and we cannot let them overwhelm us. Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan, but it does work out in the end."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
4. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
5. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
6. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
7. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
8. Hang the Moon
By: Jeannette Walls
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- family
- adult
- audiobook
9. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
10. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
11. I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
By: Shauna Niequist
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When everything we've been clinging to falls apart, how do we know what to keep and what to let go … read more
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- audiobook
12. Horse
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
13. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
14. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
15. Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
16. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
17. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
18. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- 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
19. The Guest Book
By: Sarah Blake
3.61
Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition
An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout gener… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- family
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
"The morning had started. Someone else was out there, threading the day into cloth."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
"Ghost stories belong to the middle-aged, thought it's always the young who play the dramas."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
"Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between."-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
20. The Summer Wives
By: Beatriz Williams
3.74
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—an… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"You mustn't ever try to save me, all right?I like to sail close to the wind, as close as I can,but I won't capsize"-Beatriz Williams, The Summer Wives
"There's something about the smells of your childhood, isn't there? ... You still remember those small sublime joys with an ache of longing because there's no getting it back, is there? You cannot ret…"-Beatriz Williams, The Summer Wives
"They say human beings are creatures of habit, that we are wont to follow the scripts already written in our heads, the stories we have learned to believe, over and over again in the same implacable, …"-Beatriz Williams, The Summer Wives
"You must find whatever ugliness there exists within him and have the courage to extract it, like a bad tooth, or if it cannot be extracted to actually journey inside him and gather the ugliness in yo…"-Beatriz Williams, The Summer Wives
21. The Clutter Remedy: A Guide to Getting Organized for Those Who Love Their Stuff
By: Marla Stone
3.20
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Way to a Perpetually Organized Lifestyle There are many valid approaches to creating neat an… read more
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