The Return of Faraz Ali
By: Aamina Ahmad
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in…
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1. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
2. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
3. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
4. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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- audiobook
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"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
5. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- audiobook
"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
6. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- audiobook
7. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
8. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- mystery thriller
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- mystery
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
9. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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- audiobook
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10. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
11. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- audiobook
12. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- historical
- asia
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- audiobook
13. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
14. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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15. Age of Vice
By: Deepti Kapoor
3.61
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that … read more
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- literary fiction
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- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now."-Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice
16. The Furrows
By: Namwali Serpell
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the awar… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
17. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Return of Faraz Ali
By: Aamina Ahmad
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more
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- pakistan
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- audiobook
19. Carson McCullers: A Life
By: Mary V. Dearborn
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on … read more
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- audiobook
20. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- historical
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- audiobook
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
21. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
