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…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
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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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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- drama
2. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
3. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
4. Margo's Got Money Troubles
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I’m just saying,"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
5. The Husbands
By: Holly Gramazio
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
6. 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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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
7. 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
8. 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
- novels
- adult
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"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
9. Within Arm's Reach
By: Ann Napolitano
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- audiobook
10. By Any Other Name
By: Jodi Picoult
4.19
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. Summer Romance
By: Annabel Monaghan
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I am the architect of my own experience."-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance
"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance
13. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
14. The Summer Pact
By: Emily Giffin
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
16. 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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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- adult
- drama
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
17. The Unwedding
By: Ally Condie
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."-Ally Condie, The Unwedding
18. Husbands & Lovers
By: Beatriz Williams
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. Slow Dance
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up to… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora."-Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance
20. 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
21. The Cliffs
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
22. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
23. The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
24. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
25. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
26. The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
4.50
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
27. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
28. How the Light Gets In
By: Joyce Maynard
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
29. The Same Bright Stars
By: Ethan Joella
3.87
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
30. Like Mother, Like Daughter
By: Kimberly McCreight
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
31. The Briar Club
By: Kate Quinn
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
