Monkey Boy
By: Francisco Goldman
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of…
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1. Fortune Smiles
By: Adam Johnson
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam … read more
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2. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
3. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
4. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
5. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
6. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
7. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
8. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
9. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
10. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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- literary fiction
- jewish
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
11. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
12. Monkey Boy
By: Francisco Goldman
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- unfinished
- jewish
- the united states of america
- mental health
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
13. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- audiobook
14. The Topeka School
By: Ben Lerner
3.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more
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- literary fiction
- unfinished
- the united states of america
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
15. Telephone
By: Percival Everett
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow ar… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
16. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
17. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
By: Adam Minter
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably acr… read more
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- audiobook
"Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environment…"-Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
18. Imagine Me Gone
By: Adam Haslett
3.69
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family fa… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"How narrowly we all avoid having never been."-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
"The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency."-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
"Imagine me gone, imagine it’s just the two of you. What do you do?"-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
"It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear."-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
19. Palmares
By: Gayl Jones
2.92
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great lit… read more
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- adult fiction
- race
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
20. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem… read more
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- race
- audiobook
21. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories
By: Daniel Mason
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
