The Means
By: Amy Fusselman
2.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Shelly Means, a stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing…
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1. Bad Summer People
By: Emma Rosenblum
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
2. Pineapple Street
By: Jenny Jackson
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street
3. Community Board
By: Tara Conklin
3.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted no… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
4. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
5. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
6. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Vacationland
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Louisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely wri… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Divorcées
By: Rowan Beaird
3.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
9. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
10. Pete and Alice in Maine
By: Caitlin Shetterly
3.38
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
11. The Sweet Spot
By: Amy Poeppel
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. … read more
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- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"The mistake people make when life hits them with some unexpected, and often unprepared-for, catastrophe is that they think they can just return to life the way it was before. They try to rebuild exac…"-Amy Poeppel, The Sweet Spot
12. Save What's Left
By: Elizabeth Castellano
3.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, … read more
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- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
13. Wives Like Us
By: Plum Sykes
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
14. The Means
By: Amy Fusselman
2.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Shelly Means, a stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
15. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
16. April May June July
By: Alison B. Hart
3.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Summer Stage
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A spirited summer page-turner following a family of actors grappling with fame, scandal, and ambiti… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
18. The House Party
By: Rita Cameron
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive
By: Carolyn Prusa
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramo… read more
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- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"After I gave him so much-parts of myself I didn't even know were there. After I snuffed out my wildness. After I glued myself with rubber cement to this life because of my love for him and the people…"-Carolyn Prusa, None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive
20. Ms. Demeanor
By: Elinor Lipman
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love u… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
21. Very Bad Company
By: Emma Rosenblum
3.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
22. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
23. The Work Wife
By: Alison B. Hart
3.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. Bu… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
24. The Society of Shame
By: Jane Roper
3.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A viral photo of a politician's wife's “feminine hygiene malfunction” catapults her to unwanted fam… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
25. The Old Place
By: Bobby Finger
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens t… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
26. Reunion
By: Elise Juska
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
27. The Complicities
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. The Real Mrs. Tobias
By: Sally Koslow
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Sally Koslow channels Nora Ephron in this lively tale of obligation versus desire and the politics… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- audiobook
29. Jackpot Summer
By: Elyssa Friedland
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more
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- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
30. The Memo
By: Rachel Dodes
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
If you could rewrite your life story, would you dare? That’s the question at the heart of this char… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Plays Well with Others
By: Sophie Brickman
3.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She’s a mother of three young children; her crypto-VC husban… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
