Improvement
By: Joan Silber
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young sing…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty."-Joan Silber, Improvement
"Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty."-Joan Silber, Improvement
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1. The Dinner Party and Other Stories
By: Joshua Ferris
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
The first collection of short stories from the author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Eleven sto… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
2. The Position
By: Meg Wolitzer
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Meg Wolitzer's "hilariously moving, sharply written novel" (USA TODAY), hailed by critics and loved… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
3. Waiting
By: Ha Jin
3.50
Format: 0 pages,
Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richne… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
4. Paradime
By: Alan Glynn
4.16
Format: None pages, ebook
From Alan Glynn, the award-winning author of Limitless, comes a novel of a twenty-first-century ide… read more
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- novels
- fiction
5. Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
By: Benjamin Percy
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author of The … read more
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6. Say Nothing
By: Brad Parks
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"The work of an author who continues to raise his sights and refine his immense talent." --Richmond… read more
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7. The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
By: Marc Lewis
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned … read more
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8. John Henry Days
By: Colson Whitehead
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Colson Whitehead's eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multiface… read more
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9. Hex
By: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
3.26
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between po… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Okay,"-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
"I am not in love with you, Nell Barber,"-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
"I will never blame Barry for falling in love with you but I will blame him for considering himself eligible."-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
"It’s always been such a lukewarm encouragement between us—you are essential to me and I am okay to you—but lukewarm is about as hot as I get."-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
10. Sea Monsters
By: Chloe Aridjis
3.37
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters o… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Imprisoned on this island, I would say, imprisoned on this island"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"He had started out as a snag, a snag in the composition; from one moment to the next, there was no other way of putting it, he had begun to appear in my life back in the city. And since all appearanc…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"If I stayed in much longer I was certain I would dissolve, there were probably hundreds of dissolved bodies in the ocean, swirling around with the shells and seaweed, that’s what happens when you imm…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and th…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
11. Improvement
By: Joan Silber
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young sing… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Joan Silber's Improvement book and Joan Silber's Improvement
- new york
- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty."-Joan Silber, Improvement
12. The Bride of Almond Tree
By: Robert Hillman
3.49
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
World War II is over and Hiroshima lies in a heap of poisoned rubble when young Quaker Wesley Cunni… read more
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13. Helen and The Grandbees
By: Alex Morrall
4.01
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
'Breathtaking and moving' Awais Khan 'Authentic and tender' Carmel Harrington Forgetting your pas… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
14. The Last Act
By: Brad Parks
4.02
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit t… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
15. These Streets
By: Luan Goldie
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new tho… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Hiding Place
By: Amanda Mason
3.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
17. The Legacy
By: Caroline Bond
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A death in the family rarely brings out the best in people - even the deceased. Jonathan Coulter… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Throughout his illness she had put his needs first, subsumed her own. Her sole objective had been to make his life as good as possible. She had changed shapre aound him. Reinvented herself to become …"-Caroline Bond, The Legacy
18. Every Happy Family
By: Sarah Stovell
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and Bert are over the moon to have their three grown-up children home for the first time in … read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Christmas At The Palace
By: Jeevani Charika
3.57
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A light, funny, royal romance perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis and Marie Force.Campaigner, feminist… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
20. The Cookbook of Common Prayer
By: Francesca Haig
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
When Gill and Gabe's elder son drowns overseas, they decide they must hide the truth from their des… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Favour
By: Laura Vaughan
3.55
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
