The Last Book Party
By: Karen Dukess
3.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the t…
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1. Laura & Emma
By: Kate Greathead
3.19
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Buck up. Fake it till you feel it. The show must go on. This was the way they did things - These people in the world she'd grown up in."-Kate Greathead, Laura & Emma
2. The Ponder Heart
By: Eudora Welty
3.63
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of v… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"He loved happiness like I love tea."-Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart
"I'm a great reader that never has time to read."-Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart
"It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart."-Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart
3. Neon in Daylight
By: Hermione Hoby
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"It's never love, as soon as you feel the next love. Because isn't that a prerequisite of the condition? That you tell yourself everything that came before wasn't really it."-Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight
"So much you could forget — the sequence of your own life. Maybe humans weren't meant to live this long, maybe brains couldn't retain this much life, maybe the natural way of things was to die at thir…"-Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight
"Speaking anything out loud ... seemed like an audacity. Lately, she could think the words fine, could sense their calm gray delineations in her mind, neutral and precise, but when she began to say th…"-Hermione Hoby, Neon in Daylight
4. Our Little Racket
By: Angelica Baker
4.00
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A captivating debut about wealth, envy, and secrets: the story of five women whose lives are dramat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
5. The Fortunate Ones
By: Ellen Umansky
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--will connect the lives and fates of two dif… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Gift (Prairie State Friends, #2)
By: Wanda E. Brunstetter
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book 2 in the Prairie State Friends trilogy! A Modern Amish Couple Enters Marriage of Convenience F… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- audiobook
7. The Gin Lovers
By: Jamie Brenner
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Set against the turbulent and glamorous backdrop of Prohibition and the rise of the jazz age, Jamie… read more
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8. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
By: Tim Mohr , Alina Bronsky
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rosa Achmetowna is the outrageously nasty and wily narrator of this rollicking family saga from the… read more
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9. Stasys Šaltoka. Vieneri metai
By: Gabija Grušaitė
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stasys Saltoka 29-ojo gimtadienio ryta pabunda savo lovoje Niujorke su nepazistama moterimi ir supr… read more
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10. A Vow for Always (Discovery, #6)
By: Wanda E. Brunstetter
3.21
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Book 6 of an exclusive 6-consecutive-month release Amish serial novel.In A Vow for Always, the conc… read more
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11. The Husband Hour
By: Jamie Brenner
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, … read more
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12. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
13. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- 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
14. 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
15. The Summer of Songbirds
By: Kristy Woodson Harvey
3.97
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Expiration Dates
By: Rebecca Serle
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
18. Grybo sapnas
By: Gabija Grušaitė
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
„Grybo sapnas“ – tai romanas apie žmones, pasiklydusius savo vidiniuose labirintuose. Visuomenės ak… read more
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- fiction
19. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
20. Svetimkūniai
By: Patricija Tilvikaitė
4.14
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Meda jaučiasi pati save įkalinusi prestižinio darbo gniaužtuose. Ją į neviltį varo vidinis kritikas… read more
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21. 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
- 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
22. Pažadink mane
By: Ieva Vill
3.33
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
VIKTORIJA – simpatiška fotografė, turinti puikų humoro jausmą, nebijanti pasijuokti iš savęs. Legen… read more
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23. 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
- adult
- audiobook
24. The Last Book Party
By: Karen Dukess
3.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the t… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"I loved how kindly the weather changed on mornings like this, as if sparing you the shock of awakening into a bright, clear day and instead taking your hand and gently guiding you from the cloud of s…"-Karen Dukess, The Last Book Party
25. Such a Bad Influence
By: Olivia Muenter
3.52
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
26. The Islanders
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.82
Format: 416 pages, ebook
J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read invo… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
27. American Pop
By: Snowden Wright
3.25
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The story of a family. The story of an empire. The story of a nation. Moving from Mississippi to… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The man wore a black suit rather than a tuxedo, which made him both stand out from and blend into the crowd, a sore thumb on a broken hand."-Snowden Wright, American Pop
28. Third Girl from the Left
By: Christine Barker
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support he… read more
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- historical
29. A Pure Heart
By: Rajia Hassib
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters, their divergent fates and the secrets of one family … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The only thing one "-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart
"God knows what's in everyone's heart. Works are judged based on the intentions behind them, on the purity of one's heart."-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart
"Rose wished everyone would study ancient Egyptian religion, then go on to study Judaism, Christianity, Coptic Christianity-as she did during her MA in Egypt-and Islam, and then go on to read about ev…"-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart
30. Laiko nusikaltimai
By: Sigitas Parulskis
3.41
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Plaukiodamas baseine akimirką įsivaizdavau save mirusį, plūduriuojantį chloru ir išmirkusiomis nuos… read more
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31. The Book of Otto and Liam
By: Paul Griner
3.61
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
Liam is the boy, lying in the hospital, in grave condition, a bullet lodged in his head. Otto is hi… read more
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- fiction
