People Person
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't…
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1. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
2. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
3. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
4. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
5. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
6. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
7. Cat Lady
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady
8. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
9. Honey & Spice
By: Bolu Babalola
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passio… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"There's a whole universe in her and I would be so lucky to live in it, explore it. Over and over."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"My heart had never been compelled into competitive sports by boys and yet here it was, acting like an Olympian, beating like its name was Serena."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"I got scared and I backed her into a corner. She was going through something, and I didn’t give her space to feel that. I was thinking about myself."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"Romance was a waste of time, a form of manipulation utilised by boys who didn't wash their bed sheets regularly. It existed sure, but I wasn't surrounded by anyone I believed engaged in it properly, …"-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
10. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
11. Wahala
By: Nikki May
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An incisive and exhilarating debut novel of female friendship following three Anglo-Nigerian best f… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
13. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
14. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
15. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
16. People Person
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
17. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- audiobook
18. Weirdo
By: Sara Pascoe
3.28
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
19. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
20. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
21. Careering
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more
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