The Great Offshore Grounds
By: Vanessa Veselka
3.59
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and cast…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it turns out, is a problem for people."-Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds
"Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it turns out, is a problem for people."-Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds
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1. As It Is in Heaven
By: Niall Williams
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A man content to let life pass him by, schoolteacher Stephen Griffin is about to experience a mirac… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each…"-Niall Williams, As It Is in Heaven
2. Book, Line and Sinker (Library Lover's Mystery, #3)
By: JM , Jenn McKinlay
3.95
Format: 283 pages, Mass Market Paperback
“Avast” in pirate speak means what?* Answering tricky reference questions like this one provides… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road a… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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5. Storming Heaven
By: Denise Giardina
3.89
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroye… read more
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6. Disappearing Earth
By: Julia Phillips
3.84
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducte… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el …"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
"Near him, she couldn't think of anything but him. But when they were a little apart she returned to herself, and she liked that woman she came back to. Someone...capable. Someone who maintained stand…"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
"He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred p…"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
7. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- queer
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
8. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
9. Creatures
By: Crissy Van Meter
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the gro… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
10. Mobility
By: Lydia Kiesling
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
11. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
12. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
13. A Deceptive Devotion (Lane Winslow #6)
By: Iona Whishaw
4.22
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Wedding bells, a grisly murder, and a defecting Russian spy bring drama to King’s Cove in the newes… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
14. The Great Offshore Grounds
By: Vanessa Veselka
3.59
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and cast… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- womens
- novels
- queer
"Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it t…"-Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds
15. The Revisioners
By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly po… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
"He's a black man in this world," Major has scolded me. "You got him used to sweetness when life gon' be tart."-Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The Revisioners
16. The Noh Mask Murder
By: Akimitsu Takagi
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more
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- fiction
17. Girlhood
By: Melissa Febos
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more
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- audiobook
- womens
- lgbt
- queer
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
18. On Java Road
By: Lawrence Osborne
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
By: Christopher R. Beha
4.07
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher dec… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Heartbreaker
By: Claudia Dey
3.57
Format: 261 pages, ebook
A poignant new novel that combines humour and heartache, from the brilliant mind of Governor Genera… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
21. If I Had Two Wings
By: Randall Kenan
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When Randall Kenan’s first collection was published, the New York Times called it “nothing short of… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- queer
