We Run the Tides
By: Vendela Vida
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in t…
Want to Read $ 1.99"Lazlo's mom, Ágota, and my dad had a falling out over the kinds of things siblings usually have falling outs over: money and love. My father made money and Aunt Ágota lost money. Then there was disagreement about how their mother, my grandmother, should live. My father thought a retirement home. Ágota wanted to be paid to take care f her. The argument didn't help anyone. In the end, my grandmother died anyway."-Vendela Vida, We Run the Tides
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1. Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family
By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel
3.61
Format: 432 pages, Audio CD
For years, people have been asking Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal… read more
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2. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
3. 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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"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
4. Bright Young Women
By: Jessica Knoll
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more
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"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
5. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
6. 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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7. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
8. Pineapple Street
By: Jenny Jackson
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more
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"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street
9. The Husbands
By: Holly Gramazio
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more
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10. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
11. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
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12. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
13. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
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14. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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15. We Run the Tides
By: Vendela Vida
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in t… read more
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"Lazlo's mom, Ágota, and my dad had a falling out over the kinds of things siblings usually have falling outs over: money and love. My father made money and Aunt Ágota lost money. Then there was disag…"-Vendela Vida, We Run the Tides
16. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
By: Kevin Wilson
3.69
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more
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"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
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"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
17. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. Life at the Precipice
By: R.F. Vincent
3.94
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
2023 Best Indie Book Award - Literary Fiction Winner 2024 Leacock Medal for Humour 🇨🇦 - Long Liste… read more
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19. Wir sitzen im Dickicht und weinen
By: Felicitas Prokopetz
4.02
Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition
Valerie hat nicht die einfachste Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter. Am besten klappt es, wenn die beiden ei… read more
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20. Mein drittes Leben
By: Daniela Krien
4.46
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Sie hat alles gehabt und alles Sekunden der Unachtsamkeit kosten ihre einzige Tochter das Leben. T… read more
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21. Liebesmühe
By: Christina Wessely
4.31
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
Ein berührendes, essentielles Buch über das Frausein und die Brüchigkeit der Emanzipation Wenn Freu… read more
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