Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny
By: Mark Cecil
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of my…
Want to Read $ 13.99"You took in the name of God, took in the name of science, took because only your conscience stood in your way; in other words, nothing stood in your way at all. You crushed us with disease, then guns, then laws, then drink. And last and most of all, you crushed us by simply looking the other way."-Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny
"You took in the name of God, took in the name of science, took because only your conscience stood in your way; in other words, nothing stood in your way at all. You crushed us with disease, then guns, then laws, then drink. And last and most of all, you crushed us by simply looking the other way."-Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny
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1. 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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- retellings
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2. The Blueprint
By: Rae Giana Rashad
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating debut exploring power imbalances, bodily autonomy, love, and the generational legacy … read more
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- race
- historical
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- historical fiction
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3. America Fantastica
By: Tim O'Brien
3.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more
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4. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- literary fiction
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
5. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- literary fiction
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
6. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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- historical
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7. Ours
By: Phillip B. Williams
3.84
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that dem… read more
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- race
- magical realism
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- fantasy
"In Ours, the grass that grows is sharp. It gleams at its edges, such that when the buttery light of spring falls into it, the light cries out and yellow pours slowly over the earth."-Phillip B. Williams, Ours
8. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- race
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
9. The Tower
By: Flora Carr
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more
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10. Indian Burial Ground
By: Nick Medina
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more
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- fantasy
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"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground
11. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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12. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
By: Lizzie Pook
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. We Burn Daylight
By: Bret Anthony Johnston
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more
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14. All the World Beside
By: Garrard Conley
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny
By: Mark Cecil
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of my… read more
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- retellings
- literary fiction
- race
- magical realism
- historical
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
"You took in the name of God, took in the name of science, took because only your conscience stood in your way; in other words, nothing stood in your way at all. You crushed us with disease, then guns…"-Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny
16. Lilith
By: Eric Rickstad
3.96
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am—a New… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"I find no comfort in it, eternity, everlasting life. When I am dead, I will be gone, and I will never know I existed. I will not know I ever was. Just as when I am asleep, I do not know I exist or ev…"-Eric Rickstad, Lilith
17. 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
By: Abraham Chang
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get… read more
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18. 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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19. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)
By: Alan Bradley
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more
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20. Nicked
By: M.T. Anderson
3.85
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more
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21. The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
By: Juliet Grames
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The bestselling author of … read more
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