A History of Present Illness
By: Anna DeForest
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A novel of meticulous brevity and a tone and vision all its own, transmuting the practice of medici…
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1. The Flight of Gemma Hardy
By: Margot Livesey
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to … read more
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2. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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3. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
By: Farzon A. Nahvi
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more
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- medical
- medicine
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4. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
5. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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6. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
7. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
8. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
9. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- womens
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
10. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- adult
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11. A History of Present Illness
By: Anna DeForest
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A novel of meticulous brevity and a tone and vision all its own, transmuting the practice of medici… read more
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- literary fiction
- medical
- medicine
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- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
12. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- adult
13. Stones: Poems
By: Kevin Young
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one o… read more
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14. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
By: Tessa Hulls
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more
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- adult
15. Practice
By: Rosalind Brown
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more
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16. Lungfish
By: Meghan Gilliss
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Jenny Offill, Marilynne Robinson, and Claire-Louise Bennett, Lungfish is the shimmer… read more
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17. Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories
By: David Means
3.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" (The Observer). David … read more
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18. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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19. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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20. The History of Sound: Stories
By: Ben Shattuck
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more
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"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
21. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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