Morningside Heights
By: Joshua Henkin
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young pe…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Tell me all the things I'm going to forget." "With every person it's different." "Will I forget to love you?" "I hope not." "Don't let me forget to love you."-Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights
"Tell me all the things I'm going to forget." "With every person it's different." "Will I forget to love you?" "I hope not." "Don't let me forget to love you."-Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights
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2. 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
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- family
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- audiobook
3. Mercy Street
By: Jennifer Haigh
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more
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- adult fiction
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4. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- adult fiction
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"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
5. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
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- contemporary
- family
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- audiobook
"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
6. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
7. 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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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
8. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
9. The Latecomer
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.01
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more
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- new york
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10. 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 fiction
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- audiobook
11. 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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"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
12. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- family
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
13. 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
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- contemporary
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- 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
14. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
15. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
16. French Braid
By: Anne Tyler
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
17. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- 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
18. Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
3.91
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
19. Our Best Intentions
By: Vibhuti Jain
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A pulsating debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigat… read more
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- adult fiction
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- contemporary
- audiobook
20. Oh William!
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
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"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
21. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
22. The Vixen
By: Francine Prose
3.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in th… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
23. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
24. Morningside Heights
By: Joshua Henkin
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young pe… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
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- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Tell me all the things I'm going to forget." "With every person it's different." "Will I forget to love you?" "I hope not." "Don't let me forget to love you."-Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights
25. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
26. The Real Mrs. Tobias
By: Sally Koslow
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Sally Koslow channels Nora Ephron in this lively tale of obligation versus desire and the politics… read more
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- adult fiction
- new york
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
27. The Catch
By: Alison Fairbrother
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electri… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
29. After Oz
By: Gordon McAlpine
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
30. Tell It to Me Singing
By: Tita Ramírez
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of se… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
31. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide
By: Rachel Zimmerman
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more
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