The Burning Girl
By: Claire Messud
3.25
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including the…
Want to Read $ 9.99"It's a different story depending on where you start: who's good, who's bad, what it all means. Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are. I can begin when Cassie and I were best friends; or I can begin when we weren't anymore; or I can begin at the dark end and tell it all backward."-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
"It's a different story depending on where you start: who's good, who's bad, what it all means. Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are. I can begin when Cassie and I were best friends; or I can begin when we weren't anymore; or I can begin at the dark end and tell it all backward."-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
"You get to middle school, and you think about these things. The world opens up; history stretches behind you, and the future stretches before you, and you're suddenly aware of the wild, unknowable interior lives of everyone around you, the realization that each and every person lives in an unspoken world as full and strange as your own, and that you can't ever hope entirely to know anything, not even yourself."-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
"You get to middle school, and you think about these things. The world opens up; history stretches behind you, and the future stretches before you, and you're suddenly aware of the wild, unknowable interior lives of everyone around you, the realization that each and every person lives in an unspoken world as full and strange as your own, and that you can't ever hope entirely to know anything, not even yourself."-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
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1. The New Neighbor
By: Leah Stewart
3.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, The New Neighbor is a d… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
2. Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas
By: Olivier Adam
3.13
Format: 155 pages, Pocket Book
155pages. poche. poche. read more
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- literary fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"On a bien le droit de se tromper, après tout, mème volontairement."-Olivier Adam, Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas
3. What We Keep
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rew… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark and s…"-Elizabeth Berg, What We Keep
"I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into …"-Elizabeth Berg, What We Keep
4. Moulin Rouge
By: Pierre la Mure
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Romansirana biografija zivota francuskog umjetnika Henrija de Toulouse-Lautreca. Knjiga zapocinje H… read more
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- fiction
5. The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
By: Diane Ackerman
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Award-winning nature writer Diane Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single… read more
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6. Dear Fang, With Love
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Girls from Corona del Mar, a sprawling, ambitious new novel about … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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8. Heart Spring Mountain
By: Robin MacArthur
3.33
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a… read more
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- mystery
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9. The Blind
By: A.F. Brady
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Ma… read more
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10. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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11. Great House
By: Nicole Krauss
3.68
Format: 290 pages,
A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession,… read more
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12. Enciclopedia della donna: Aggiornamento
By: Valeria Parrella
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
L'Enciclopedia della donnausci negli anni Sessanta, ed esponeva in modo chiaro e definitivo tutto q… read more
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13. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
14. Šuns archipelagas
By: Philippe Claudel
3.76
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Nuo viso likusio pasaulio atskirtoje saloje, pramintoje Šuns archipelagu, gyvena maža bendruomenė, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
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- audiobook
15. Táto izba sa nedá zjesť
By: Nicol Hochholczerová
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mladá autorka najprv niečo zažila, potom s obdivuhodným talentom písala. Tá izba sa nedala zjesť, t… read more
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- novels
- fiction
16. Vatermal
By: Necati Öziri
4.35
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Arda weiß nicht, wie viel Zeit ihm noch bleibt. Er liegt mit Organversagen im Krankenhaus seiner He… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Du bist 18 und deine Freunde sind mit Balken vor den Augen in den Zeitungen. Sie liegen in den Parks und auf der Pennerwiese herum, sie sind jetzt die Statistik aus den Talkshows, abgeschoben, in der…"-Necati Öziri, Vatermal
17. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
18. Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
By: Mona Gable
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind whe… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
19. Two Sherpas
By: Sebastián Martínez Daniell
3.62
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpa… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"One minute it represents the pinnacle of gregarious engineering, the most refined Apollonian mechanism of social regulation; the next it’s a groping homunculus spewing pus and other people’s blood on…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Actions, thoughts, interpretations, dialogues and soliloquies, sufferings… are nothing more than intermittently surging projections, stamps on the surface of the knowable. Symptoms. The real is in th…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Although it could be argued that every voyage already contains, in latent form, the possibility of its deviations. That they’re never random. That nor are they predestined. But they are larval, that …"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"It’s a brief moment before the word is returned to the box of the irreversible, before it makes itself present with its flotilla of tragic predestinations. A regrettable loss, a true disaster. The li…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
20. Stray City
By: Chelsey Johnson
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the… read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"All I knew that for all our art, for all our writing, for all our self-defense workshops, for all our banding together in our cities and oases, queer survival was still not guaranteed."-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"Maybe Flynn at thirty was still becoming, I realized. Maybe the Flynn I loved was on the way out. Or maybe the Flynn. I loved hadn't been around for some time now. It was easy to mistake proximity fo…"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"I seldom even thought of myself as woman or girl, just person. Just human. I only became girl or woman when men walked into the room or I walked into theirs, when that gaze hit me like a hot breath. …"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
21. UFO nad Bratysławą
By: Weronika Gogola
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Kraj nad trzema morzami, z których tylko jedno jest prawdziwe, a i tak nie ma do niego bezpośrednie… read more
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22. The Burning Girl
By: Claire Messud
3.25
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"It's a different story depending on where you start: who's good, who's bad, what it all means. Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are. I can begin when Cassie and I w…"-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
"You get to middle school, and you think about these things. The world opens up; history stretches behind you, and the future stretches before you, and you're suddenly aware of the wild, unknowable in…"-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
23. Welcome Home
By: Lucia Berlin
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
A compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction compan… read more
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"Lo llaman romperse el corazón porque añorar a alguien es un dolor físico real, lo sientes en la sangre y en los huesos."-Lucia Berlin, Welcome Home
24. Junie
By: Chelene Knight
3.78
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
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- adult
- audiobook
25. Veľké asi ako vesmír
By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rodová sága o radosti a bolesti, vášni a utrpení, vernosti a zlyhaniach, živote a smrti, blízkosti … read more
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- novels
- adult
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- contemporary
26. Deň radosti
By: Ďuro Balogh
4.77
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Keď sa na Silvestra roku 1977 divákom z televíznej obrazovky prihovorili Lasica so Satinským, bolo … read more
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27. Addio fantasmi
By: Nadia Terranova
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ida è appena sbarcata a Messina, la sua città natale: la madre l'ha richiamata in vista della ristr… read more
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- coming of age
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
"Delle vite degli altri non so molto, ma se aprissi uno spiraglio la mia solitudine diventerebbe affollata."-Nadia Terranova, Addio fantasmi
"Capii in quel momento cos'è davvero una madre: qualcosa da cui non esiste riparo. Dicono che una madre dà tutto e non chiede niente; nessuno dice invece che chiede tutto e dà ciò che non chiediamo di…"-Nadia Terranova, Addio fantasmi
"Veniamo tutti da un funerale, non solo io che ci sono stata per davvero; tutti abbiamo perso qualcuno e sappiamo quanto lunghissimo e ingiusto sia il tempo davanti a noi, il tempo senza quella person…"-Nadia Terranova, Addio fantasmi
28. Zuzana Čaputová: Nestratiť sa sama sebe
By: Erik Tabery
4.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dialóg Zuzany Čaputovej a šéfredaktora týždenníka Respekt Erika Taberyho trval viac ako dva roky. A… read more
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29. Listen to the Marriage
By: John Jay Osborn Jr.
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A riveting drama of marital therapy Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living… read more
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- fiction
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30. Little Bandaged Days
By: Kyra Wilder
3.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A taut and claustrophobic literary thriller about a mother who loves her children so much it might … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- adult
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"What is a child but two strands of data ploughing into each other in the dark cosmos of a woman's body"-Kyra Wilder, Little Bandaged Days
