The Lightness
By: Emily Temple
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, …
Want to Read $ 2.99"Oh, but how could I believe in anything but this? It was right in front of me, and I could touch it."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
"Oh, but how could I believe in anything but this? It was right in front of me, and I could touch it."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
"Now I know that the American Dream can leave you in a coma or even kill you. But of course, we knew that back then too. It wouldn’t have been any fun otherwise."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
"Now I know that the American Dream can leave you in a coma or even kill you. But of course, we knew that back then too. It wouldn’t have been any fun otherwise."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
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1. Black Iris
By: Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake
3.72
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Unteachable… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
"The whole summer was inside of us."-Leah Raeder, Black Iris
"Call me more things. Call me yours."-Leah Raeder, Black Iris
"Let the sheep bleat. Their own noises soothe them."-Leah Raeder, Black Iris
"Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release."-Leah Raeder, Black Iris
2. Cam Girl
By: Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake
3.66
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Vada Bergen is broke, the black sheep of her family, and moving a thousand miles away from home for… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I dream of you in colors that don't exist."-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
"Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men."-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
"Not a boy or a girl, not any binary, rigid definition of a person. Just my everything."-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
"If I die, that's what they'll find in me. This face, inked in the surface of every cell."-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
3. White Heat (Edie Kiglatuk Mystery, #1)
By: M.J. McGrath
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting d… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
4. The Girls
By: Emma Cline
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
5. Curious Wine
By: Katherine V. Forrest
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible setting that brings Diana Holland an… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
6. The Good Girls
By: Teresa Mummert
3.74
Format: None pages, ebook
My life was meticulously planned, and I refused to deviate from that path. While my peers were part… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
7. She and I
By: Hannah King
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Best friends share everything. But murder is different. Isn’t it? Keeley and Jude are closer tha… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
8. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
9. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
10. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
11. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
12. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
13. Sisters
By: Daisy Johnson
3.48
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Settembre è la persona che avrei sempre voluto essere. Io sono una forma ritagliata dall'universo, trapunta di stelle che continuano a morire - e lei è la creatura che riempie il vuoto che io lascio …"-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
14. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
15. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
16. Self-Portrait With Boy
By: Rachel Lyon
3.81
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could j… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
18. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
19. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
20. The Lowest Healer and the Highest Mage (Clem & Wist #1)
By: Hiyodori
4.22
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
“I never forgot the sound of you calling for me. Not for a second.” The Lowest Healer and the Hi… read more
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- adult
- fiction
21. The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"New dangers, though, coming to the surface like the bubbles of soap."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Love as a protest within my body. Or perhaps it’s just that I am unused to touch, am out of practice. Bodies do not lie. This all acts as proof that he has touched me here, here, here."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"It used to bother me that we would leave little trace, but now I have never been more glad about anything. I will wake up in the empty mornings with the absence of you, and I will think, Glad, glad, …"-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
22. Self Care
By: Leigh Stein
3.14
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Leaving New York was always a reminder of the millions of people who would never choose your life or your lifestyle, the one you fought so hard to have, to prove how special you were."-Leigh Stein, Self Care
23. The Lightness
By: Emily Temple
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, … read more
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- literary fiction
- cults
- young adult
- religion
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Oh, but how could I believe in anything but this? It was right in front of me, and I could touch it."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
"Now I know that the American Dream can leave you in a coma or even kill you. But of course, we knew that back then too. It wouldn’t have been any fun otherwise."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
24. You Again
By: Debra Jo Immergut
3.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Edgar Award nominee Debra Jo Immergut, a taut, twisting work of suspense about a woman haunted… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
25. The World Cannot Give
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How far would you go after finding something–or someone–worthy of devotion?... Don't miss the no… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
26. Nightshift
By: Kiare Ladner
3.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compelling debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
27. Wilderness Reform
By: Matt Query
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terri… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
28. Nobody Knows But You
By: Anica Mrose Rissi
3.31
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Maybe a killer only looks like a killer in the moment just before, during, or after. Maybe a lia… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"But what even is truth? Because we all have different perceptions and those perceptions shape our truths. And two contradicting things can be true at once."-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You
"Give people a few convincing threads and they'll spin the rest themselves. This story has been woven for us, more tightly than I could have done. I couldn't untangle the knots now if I tried."-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You
"I'm the only one who saw your full truth. I still see it. I'm trying to keep holding it tight. But truth can be slippery, hard to look at straight on. It's too open to interpretations and view points…"-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You
29. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
30. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
