21 must-read fiction books like Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell

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Dear Miss Metropolitan

By: Carolyn Ferrell

3.16

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of gr…

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1. STOLEN AIR

By: Osip Mandelstam , Christian Wiman

4.45

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian … read more

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2. A Gift of Dragons: Illustrated Stories

By: Anne McCaffrey , Tom Kidd

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

For more than thirty years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs… read more

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  • fiction
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3. One with Others: [a little book of her days]

By: C.D. Wright

3.97

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."--The New York Times Book Review "Wright has found a wa… read more

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4. Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories

By: Stuart Dybek

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writer… read more

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5. The Party Upstairs

By: Lee Conell

3.09

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The key to success is saying 'heck no' to shame."

-Lee Conell, The Party Upstairs

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6. How Can I Help You

By: Laura Sims

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. N… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • mental health
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8. That Old Country Music

By: Kevin Barry

3.90

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), m… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Dear Miss Metropolitan

By: Carolyn Ferrell

3.16

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of gr… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • realistic fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Death Prefers the Minor Keys (American Poets Continuum Series, 202)

By: Sean Thomas Dougherty

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on brea… read more

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"What more can the poem do? O Love, did you know that Czeslaw Milosz was right when he argued ‘What is poetry that cannot save nations or people?’ You are my nation. I only wanted to write poems to sa…"

-Sean Thomas Dougherty, Death Prefers the Minor Keys (American Poets Continuum Series, 202)

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11. We Are Mermaids: Poems

By: Stephanie Burt

3.65

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, “perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say” ( Bosto… read more

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12. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

By: Margo Jefferson

3.77

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Cherish Farrah

By: Bethany C. Morrow

3.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Caul Baby

By: Morgan Jerkins

3.79

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying nov… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Astrid Sees All

By: Natalie Standiford

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adven… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. You Were Made for This

By: Michelle Sacks

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gripping page-turner for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This pr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"They cut you open and scrape it all out, scoop it from you like the innards of a melon. The knots of flesh and malevolent cells. Scoop, scratch, snip. It's all gone. Everything that sat there, waitin…"

-Michelle Sacks, You Were Made for This

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17. A Flame in the North (Black Land's Bane, #1)

By: Lilith Saintcrow

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An elemental witch and her shieldmaiden journey into a world of ancient myth and unexpected destiny… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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18. Decent People

By: De'Shawn Charles Winslow

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and u… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Where There Was Fire

By: John Manuel Arias

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from risi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. What the Mountains Remember

By: Joy Callaway

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on bea… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Impossible Causes

By: Julie Mayhew

3.07

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For readers of All the Missing Girls and You Will Know Me, Impossible Causes is a gripping thriller… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be

By: Nichole Perkins

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Pop culture is the Pandora’s Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusio… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

By: Vicki Sokolik

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman … read more

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  • audiobook
  • mental health
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24. You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula

By: Hannah Matthews

4.44

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Named a Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science … read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don't often engage in debates over abortion rights, for the same reason I don't sit down to share a meal at any table where I am on the menu. My body is not a theory or a talking point, and neither…"

-Hannah Matthews, You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula

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25. Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship

By: Sheryl Lister

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Four friends, three struggling relationships, and one final wish: find your happiness. Both heartwa… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Hell, there are real sisters out there who aren't as close as we are. [...] I know life has thrown us more curveballs than we can catch, but as long as you have each other, you can win this game call…"

-Sheryl Lister, No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship

"Over 15 years ago we pledged our Sisterhood. And promised we would always be there for each other. Today, we renew that commitment. Diane continued. To accept each other with all our flaws. Give enco…"

-Sheryl Lister, No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship

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27. The Days of Afrekete

By: Asali Solomon

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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28. The Anatomy of Desire

By: L.R. Dorn

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A modern tale of American striving, social media stardom, a fatal love triangle, and a young woman … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I taped this quote above my sink: 'What does it matter if an influencer gains all the followers in the world only to lose her soul?"

-L.R. Dorn, The Anatomy of Desire

"But now I became fascinated by the chasm between who this person had been as Mary Claire Griffith at fifteen and who she'd become as Cleo Ray at twenty-five."

-L.R. Dorn, The Anatomy of Desire

"Today, millions of people from around the world are tuned in to this hundred-year-old courthouse, designed in the neoclassical style and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It's a bui…"

-L.R. Dorn, The Anatomy of Desire

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29. Members Only

By: Sameer Pandya

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

First the white members of Raj Bhatt’s posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart.… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I felt the sanctity of the early morning again, the coolness and the possibility of a day that had not yet been misspent."

-Sameer Pandya, Members Only

"I've seen what stress can do to how the heart functions. Just walking down the street here, or even in a big, mixed place like LA or New York, watching people watch you, listening to their questions,…"

-Sameer Pandya, Members Only

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30. In Their Shadows

By: Briana Cole

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“It’s easy to have more than one life. You just have to know how to balance them . . .” Raised t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Exile Music by Jennifer Steil

31. Exile Music

By: Jennifer Steil

4.15

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a you… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction

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