The Boys
By: Katie Hafner
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A tour-de-force novel about love, the yearning for connection, and the ways in which childhood trau…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Mike the Cat was already a senior citizen by the time I met him, a reality I had trouble adjusting to. I had never owned a pet, yet from knowing people who did I was aware that we bring animals into our lives in tacit acknowledgment of the heartbreak to come, recognizing that in the normal course of events we will eventually have to watch them grow arthritic and rheumy, then say a final, wrenching goodbye. From the minute I met Mike the Cat, I lived in fear of the day we would find him splayed on the living room rug, seized by respiratory failure or colitis or the final agonizing throes of cat cancer."-Katie Hafner, The Boys
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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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
2. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- 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
3. 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
4. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
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- audiobook
5. Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
6. 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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- audiobook
7. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
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- audiobook
8. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
9. 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
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
10. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
11. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
12. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- 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
13. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
14. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
15. Any Other Family
By: Eleanor Brown
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
16. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- 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
17. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
By: Kevin Wilson
3.69
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
18. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
19. The Boys
By: Katie Hafner
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A tour-de-force novel about love, the yearning for connection, and the ways in which childhood trau… read more
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- italy
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- book club
- audiobook
"Mike the Cat was already a senior citizen by the time I met him, a reality I had trouble adjusting to. I had never owned a pet, yet from knowing people who did I was aware that we bring animals into …"-Katie Hafner, The Boys
20. The Complicities
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
21. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
