A Tiny Upward Shove
By: Melissa Chadburn
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
My grandmother, sitting at her doily-covered table, marmalade on her cheek, explained that the aswa…
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1. Refuge
By: Dina Nayeri
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a moving immigrant story that looks at the larger contemporary refugee experience. An … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"...sorrow isn't a devil's contract that you forge in the dark. Sometimes you trip and fall in."-Dina Nayeri, Refuge
2. On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
By: Adam Phillips
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Tickle a child, and she peals with laughter. Go on too long, and her laughter is sure to turn to te… read more
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3. Brutalities: A Love Story
By: Margo Steines
4.16
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more
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"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story
4. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
5. The Taiga Syndrome
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.48
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- fantasy
"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or t…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
6. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
7. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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8. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
9. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
10. A Tiny Upward Shove
By: Melissa Chadburn
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
My grandmother, sitting at her doily-covered table, marmalade on her cheek, explained that the aswa… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- horror
- adult
- paranormal
- mythology
11. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- adult
12. America Is Not the Heart
By: Elaine Castillo
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"A name had a lifespan like anything else."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"There are mercies, and there are mercies."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You know what it's like to have a fate; you also know what it's like to escape one."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
13. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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14. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
15. The Road to the Country
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country
16. Landscapes
By: Christine Lai
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms
By: John Joseph Adams
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Here be dragons...and a lot of stories that would make a dragon blink. A fascinating kaleidoscope o… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
18. When the Hibiscus Falls
By: M. Evelina Galang
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Seventeen stories traverse borderlines, mythic and real, in the lives of Filipino and Filipino Amer… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
19. The Applicant
By: Nazli Koca
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A singular debut, The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, wom… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Buzz Books 2018: Spring/Summer: Exclusive excerpts from forthcoming titles by Patrick DeWitt, Sheila Heti, Kristan Higgins, Ottessa Moshfegh Allison Pearson and 35 more
By: Publishers Lunch
4.33
Format: 742 pages, Kindle Edition
Our biannual Buzz Books captures all the excitement of the American Booksellers Association’s Winte… read more
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- fiction
21. The Autumn of Ruth Winters
By: Marshall Fine
3.96
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
In this heartwarming story about second acts and second chances, a no-nonsense retiree, very much s… read more
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