A Woman Is No Man
By: Etaf Rum
4.26
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by a Palestinian-American voice takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab f…
Want to Read $ 12.49"It’s hard to belong anywhere, truly belong, if we don’t belong to ourselves first."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn't change things - that she didn't have a choice - made living it more bearable."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Sadness was like a cancer, she thought, a presence that staked it's claim so quietly you might not even notice it until it was too late. She hoped her other daughters didn't see."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on my own, to be my own person."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
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1. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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2. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult fiction
- feminism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
3. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
By: Zoulfa Katouh
4.50
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had h… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Bury me before I bury you" I did."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"There are enough people hurting you,"-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"I’ll make it as soon as I’m done with this."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"He bites his lip. “Please take of yourself."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
4. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
5. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
6. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
7. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
8. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"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
9. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 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
10. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
11. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
12. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"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
13. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"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
14. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"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
15. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
16. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- 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
17. The Collected Regrets of Clover
By: Mikki Brammer
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
18. A Woman Is No Man
By: Etaf Rum
4.26
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by a Palestinian-American voice takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab f… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"It’s hard to belong anywhere, truly belong, if we don’t belong to ourselves first."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn't change things - that she didn't have a choice - made living it more bearable."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Sadness was like a cancer, she thought, a presence that staked it's claim so quietly you might not even notice it until it was too late. She hoped her other daughters didn't see."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on…"-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
19. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
By: Lara Love Hardin
4.46
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
20. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
21. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
