Familia
By: Lauren E. Rico
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell…
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1. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
2. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
3. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
4. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
5. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
By: Tia Williams
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
6. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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- audiobook
- family
- contemporary
7. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. Acts of Forgiveness
By: Maura Cheeks
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
9. Mercury
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- family
- adult
- audiobook
10. Flores and Miss Paula
By: Melissa Rivero
3.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. The Return of Ellie Black
By: Emiko Jean
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
12. Familia
By: Lauren E. Rico
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- family
- adult
- audiobook
13. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
By: Xóchitl González
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
14. The Things We Didn’t Know
By: Elba Iris Pérez
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By: Kirsten Miller
4.19
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Long After We Are Gone
By: Terah Shelton Harris
3.88
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Waves Take You Home
By: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
3.96
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges… read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
20. Malas
By: Marcela Fuentes
3.96
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
21. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life
By: Helen Fisher
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community a… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Instead of fearing a thing, try to understand it. Because understanding can change everything about the way that you feel."-Helen Fisher, Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life
