Dear Ann
By: Bobbie Ann Mason
3.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ann Workman is smart but naïve, a misfit who’s traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in t…
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1. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
By: Michael Chabon
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of comple… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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"Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur."-Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
"I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart."-Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
"You read my Cosmo?" "I read all of your magazines. I took all the love quizzes and pretended I was you answering the questions." "How did I do?" "You cheated," I said."-Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
"Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world."-Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
2. The Pleasing Hour
By: Lily King
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The first novel from a new literary voice brimming with sensitivity and lyricism, The Pleasing Hour… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- audiobook
4. Driftless
By: David Rhodes
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
David Rhodes's long-awaited new novel turns an unblinking eye on an array of eccentric characters a… read more
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5. The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
By: Mike Leonard
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It's not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seve… read more
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6. The Admissions
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.95
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perf… read more
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7. Delicious!
By: Ruth Reichl
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In her bestselling memoirs Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defines us, and n… read more
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8. I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
By: Courtney Maum
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Where'd You Go, Bernadettemeets Beautiful Ruinsin this reverse love story set in Paris and London a… read more
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9. The Mystery of the Tolling Bell (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #23)
By: Carolyn Keene
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
While vacationing in a seaside town, Nancy learns her father has been kidnapped. She and Ned rescue… read more
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10. Fiction Ruined My Family: A Memoir
By: Jeanne Darst
4.20
Format: 251 pages,
The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and … read more
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11. Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
By: Sena Jeter Naslund
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
A magnificent, vast, and enthralling saga, Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wifeis a remarkable epic spa… read more
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12. The Clue in the Old Album (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #24)
By: Carolyn Keene
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Nancy witnesses a purse snatching and chases the thief. She rescues the purse, but not its contents… read more
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13. The Hole We're In
By: Gabrielle Zevin
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From award winning writer Gabrielle Zevin comes a biting, powerful, and deliciously entertaining no… read more
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- literary fiction
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14. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
By: Jillian Lauren
3.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more
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- audiobook
15. America Fantastica
By: Tim O'Brien
3.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
16. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
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- audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
17. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
18. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
19. Alternate Side
By: Anna Quindlen
3.35
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood—and a seemingly happy marriage—are exposed by an unexpect… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?"-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side
"When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable."-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage."-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side
"It was notable because they rarely quarreled anymore. Their marriage had become like the AA prayer: 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side
20. Everyone But Myself
By: Julie Chavez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un… read more
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- audiobook
21. The Last Romantics
By: Tara Conklin
3.71
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves." When the renowned poet F… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"I believe now that certain events are inevitable. Not in a fateful way, for I have never had faith in anything but myself, but in the way of human nature."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"For many years love seemed to me not something that enriched or emboldened but a blind hole into which you fell, and in the falling you forgot what it was to live in your own light."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"Caroline. Listen to me. You have to decide what you love. Joe wasn't the only one. You have to decide now and hold on. Start small. Begin with the small things and work up from here."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
22. Southernmost
By: Silas House
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more
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- fiction
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"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"-Silas House, Southernmost
"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"-Silas House, Southernmost
23. Good Taste
By: Caroline Scott
3.45
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English count… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
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- historical fiction
"I'll permit you to comfort me with soothing words and caresses later."-Caroline Scott, Good Taste
"Stella stood at the queue outside the butcher's shop and tried to pin a name to all the shades of red. Carmine, cadmium, Venetian red, she thought, vermillion, rose madder, magenta."-Caroline Scott, Good Taste
"Stella leaned her head back and saw the sun flashing between rooftops, pale pearly clouds and then the corner of Peter Jones', the windows full of hats and dresses in the spring colors, all geranium …"-Caroline Scott, Good Taste
"What brings you to Gloucestershire?" "I was halfway between Banbury cakes and Bath buns," she said. He raised an eyebrow in response, which made her feel like she'd let a double entendre slip out. "I…"-Caroline Scott, Good Taste
24. You Are Here
By: Karin Lin-Greenberg
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal the local … read more
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25. Lark Ascending
By: Silas House
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future, reminding us to always hold… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"The world became smaller, yet louder."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"There was some comfort in knowing that, although the world was being torn in two, there were still remarkable things that went on being, that refused to lose their shine. Some days it was only the wo…"-Silas House, Lark Ascending
26. Dear Ann
By: Bobbie Ann Mason
3.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ann Workman is smart but naïve, a misfit who’s traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in t… read more
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- american
- americana
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
27. The High Season
By: Judy Blundell
3.42
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”— People … read more
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- fiction
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"Ah, now she knew what divorce really was. Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street."-Judy Blundell, The High Season
"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than al the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wr…"-Judy Blundell, The High Season
"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than all the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's w…"-Judy Blundell, The High Season
"Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicke…"-Judy Blundell, The High Season
28. Letters from Home
By: Kristina McMorris
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Inspired by her grandparents' WWII courtship letters, New York Times bestselling author Kristina M… read more
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- historical
- novels
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- historical fiction
"Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side"-Kristina McMorris, Letters from Home
"Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love."-Kristina McMorris, Letters from Home
"But there was something else. A feeling of understanding, a comfort that defied reason. It was as though kissing her, a near stranger, would have made all the sense in the world."-Kristina McMorris, Letters from Home
"It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light…"-Kristina McMorris, Letters from Home
29. Tiffy and Leon's Christmas Letters (Extra)
By: Beth O'Leary
3.82
Format: 5 pages, ebook
Extra content available in the author's website, set after the final chapter but before the epilogu… read more
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- fiction
30. A Christmas Bun for Ulysses (Moose Springs, Alaska, #2.5)
By: Sarah Morgenthaler
4.22
Format: 10 pages, ebook
A Christmas short story in Moose Springs, Alaska. read more
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- fiction
31. Baby of the Family
By: Maura Roosevelt
2.79
Format: 453 pages, Hardcover
The money is old, the problems are new. A wry and addictive debut about a modern-day American d… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"She was the only child of an interracial couple, one half of which was disabled. When she was growing up, her straw-headed classmates asked her curtly, "What are you?"-Maura Roosevelt, Baby of the Family
