The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di…
Want to Read $ 12.99"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
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1. 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
2. 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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- literary fiction
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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
3. 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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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
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- adult
- audiobook
"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
4. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- literary fiction
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5. 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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- literary fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
6. 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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- literary fiction
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"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
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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- fiction
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- audiobook
10. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
11. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- audiobook
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12. Weyward
By: Emilia Hart
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"-Emilia Hart, Weyward
13. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- india
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
15. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
4.04
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year… read more
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16. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
By: Benjamin Stevenson
3.79
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than onc… read more
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- audiobook
"But I promised to be reliable, not competent"-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
"Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for."-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
"Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it."-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
"...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart …"-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
17. 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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18. 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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- literary fiction
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- 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
19. The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- feminism
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
20. 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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- fiction
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- adult
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"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
21. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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