A Calling for Charlie Barnes
By: Joshua Ferris
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern Am…
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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
- fiction
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- 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
"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."-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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
3. Tracy Flick Can't Win
By: Tom Perrotta
3.64
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win
"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win
4. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
5. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
6. Our Country Friends
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.21
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- humor
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- adult
- audiobook
"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
7. 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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- literature
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- contemporary
- novels
- 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
8. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
9. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
10. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
11. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
12. Crossroads
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.06
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
13. The Candy House
By: Jennifer Egan
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
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"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
14. Sleepwalk
By: Dan Chaon
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk
"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk
15. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
16. The War for Gloria
By: Atticus Lish
3.81
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, t… read more
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17. A Calling for Charlie Barnes
By: Joshua Ferris
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern Am… read more
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- humor
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- contemporary
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- adult
- comedy
- audiobook
18. The Great Man Theory
By: Teddy Wayne
3.79
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, comes the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply… read more
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19. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- literary fiction
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20. Margreete's Harbor
By: Eleanor Morse
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its m… read more
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21. The Sun Collective
By: Charles Baxter
3.28
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a tim… read more
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