That Kind of Mother
By: Rumaan Alam
3.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and tho…
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1. Touch
By: Courtney Maum
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, a satirical and moving n… read more
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2. Life Sentences
By: Laura Lippman
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
USA Today calls Laura Lippman, "A writing powerhouse," and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. P… read more
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3. Symptomatic
By: Danzy Senna
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
A young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsu… read more
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4. Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
By: R.A. Scotti
4.48
Format: 252 pages,
In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art steppe… read more
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5. A Crime in the Neighborhood
By: Suzanne Berne
3.89
Format: 197 pages,
An auspicious debut novel by a young writer who will remind readers of Anne Lamott and Anne Tyler C… read more
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- literary fiction
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6. The Strays
By: Emily Bitto
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde … read more
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7. A Good Hard Look
By: Ann Napolitano
4.32
Format: 210 pages,
Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own … read more
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8. Amazing Grace Adams
By: Fran Littlewood
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more
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9. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
10. Vengeance Is Mine
By: Marie NDiaye
2.86
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide … read more
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11. Everyone But Myself
By: Julie Chavez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un… read more
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12. Swift River
By: Essie J. Chambers
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more
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"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River
13. Bowlaway
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.10
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCrack… read more
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"They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed ..."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"Movie kisses looked like they'd hurt. She couldn't get enough of them. They made her feel alive - not in any expansive way, but assessed, her pulse taken, a rubber mallet to the knee that made her ki…"-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"Maybe better that way, to not know our parents, to love them as we move away from them--they're on the shore and we're on a ship, moving away; later we will switch places as they sail away from us, a…"-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
14. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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15. 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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"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
16. That Kind of Mother
By: Rumaan Alam
3.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and tho… read more
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- family
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- audiobook
17. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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18. Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds
By: Tom Seeman
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical coming-of-age story set in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, Animals I Want To See explores t… read more
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19. Habitations
By: Sheila Sundar
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green car… read more
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20. The Fall Guy
By: James Lasdun
2.91
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a dead… read more
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21. The Rich People Have Gone Away
By: Regina Porter
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more
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