Life and Other Love Songs
By: Anissa Gray
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A father’s sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black Am…
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1. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… 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. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
4. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
5. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
6. The Celebrants
By: Steven Rowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
7. 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
8. Welcome Home, Stranger
By: Kate Christensen
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more
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9. The Half Moon
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more
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10. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
By: Tia Williams
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more
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"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
11. Little Monsters
By: Adrienne Brodeur
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more
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"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
12. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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13. Coleman Hill
By: Kim Coleman Foote
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more
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14. Perish
By: LaToya Watkins
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more
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"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."-LaToya Watkins, Perish
"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"-LaToya Watkins, Perish
15. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
16. Swift River
By: Essie J. Chambers
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more
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"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River
17. What We Kept to Ourselves
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
3.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu… read more
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18. Life and Other Love Songs
By: Anissa Gray
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A father’s sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black Am… read more
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19. Holler, Child: Stories
By: LaToya Watkins
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more
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20. The Three of Us
By: Ore Agbaje-Williams
2.96
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking … read more
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21. One Blood
By: Denene Millner
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets … read more
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22. I Am Ayah: The Way Home
By: Donna Hill
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Set amid Sag Harbor’s vibrant African American history, bestselling author Donna Hill weaves a stun… read more
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23. You Were Always Mine
By: Christine Pride
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” ( The Washington Post ) and Good M… read more
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24. Late Bloomers
By: Deepa Varadarajan
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into the… read more
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25. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
26. American Mermaid
By: Julia Langbein
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more
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"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
27. The Do-Over
By: Suzanne Park
3.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the author of Loathe at First Sight and So We Meet Again, a fun rom-com about a young Korean-A… read more
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28. Long After We Are Gone
By: Terah Shelton Harris
3.88
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more
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29. If We're Being Honest
By: Cat Shook
3.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more
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"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest
30. The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
By: Shauna Robinson
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks and Must Love Books comes a heartf… read more
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