Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
By: Duchess Goldblatt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseu…
Want to Read $ 14.99"After a certain point, people lose patience with your grief. They just want you to move on."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
"After a certain point, people lose patience with your grief. They just want you to move on."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
"If you’ve ever wondered what the right thing is to say to someone who’s grieving a death, I think this is it: Tell me all about your dear one."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
"If you’ve ever wondered what the right thing is to say to someone who’s grieving a death, I think this is it: Tell me all about your dear one."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
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1. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
By: Kathleen Rooney
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk. As she traverse… read more
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2. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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- audiobook
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
3. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- book club
- contemporary
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
4. 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
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
6. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.07
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more
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- audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
7. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By: Ada Calhoun
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. No Two Persons
By: Erica Bauermeister
4.09
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s N… read more
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- adult
- book club
- contemporary
"All that matters is that we try. pg. 79"-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
"Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245"-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
"Always start with words. Words last. Tell me a secret from your day."-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
"Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don't lose each other."-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
9. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
10. 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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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"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
11. Fault Lines
By: Emily Itami
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsivel… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"But everyone is somebody's baby."-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
"What are we, apart from the stories we tell ourselves and other people?"-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
"It's hard to remember who you are, without people who know you that way."-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
"Keeping secrets makes me feel safe. Having a secret makes me feel like nobody owns me, and that any opinion of me could always be inaccurate; no one has the whole picture, so it’s like trying to judg…"-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
12. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
13. Unlikely Animals
By: Annie Hartnett
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this… read more
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- audiobook
- humor
- adult
- contemporary
"You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be."-Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals
14. The Ensemble
By: Aja Gabel
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"Pitch-perfect." — People "You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop The addictive … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- book club
- contemporary
"… you misunderstand ‘ease.’ I think whoever said that means joy, not the quality of being easy. And difficult things can bring joy. And joy can bring ease."-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"The story spanned the distance between their past and their future, and suddenly, briefly, they were two versions of themselves. And if they were two versions of themselves, they were also all the ve…"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"She was sad, and she was angry with herself for being sad. She didn’t like wanting what she hadn’t intended to want as much as she didn’t like being denied what she hadn’t really wanted in the first …"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
15. Girls and Their Horses
By: Eliza Jane Brazier
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cut… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
16. The Arsonists' City
By: Hala Alyan
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rend… read more
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- adult
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17. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
By: Duchess Goldblatt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseu… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"After a certain point, people lose patience with your grief. They just want you to move on."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
"If you’ve ever wondered what the right thing is to say to someone who’s grieving a death, I think this is it: Tell me all about your dear one."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
"When someone you love dies, you lose them in pieces over time, but you also get them back in pieces: little fragments of memory come rushing back through what they cared about, what brought them joy.…"-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
18. The Violin Conspiracy
By: Brendan Slocumb
4.12
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"He would tell you that music is truly a universal language, and that we the listeners will always impose our own fears and biases, our own hopes and hungers on whatever we hear. He would tell you tha…"-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy
"Bring it. Just fucking bring it. Stand tall, Grandma Nora had told him: he would stand tall, with the spotlights shining on his face, and his music would pour into all their ears, and they would unde…"-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy
19. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
By: Ada Calhoun
3.75
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not … read more
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- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married."-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
"Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep."-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
"The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring."-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
"...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall."-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
20. Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
By: Alan Jacobs
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary g… read more
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- audiobook
"When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever "is better than we are" ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it."-Alan Jacobs, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
21. Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women
By: Alissa Wilkinson
3.64
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive, who would it be? That's the question fi… read more
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