Henry, Himself
By: Stewart O'Nan
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life tryin…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Her anger was the fuel she used to keep going."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
"Her anger was the fuel she used to keep going."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
"Being agreeable didn't make people less difficult."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
"Being agreeable didn't make people less difficult."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
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1. The Dead of Winter (John Madden, #3)
By: Rennie Airth
3.84
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
On a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. Scotland Yar… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
2. Bone & Bread
By: Saleema Nawaz
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
3. The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie, #1)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Filled with thorny characters and a Scottish atmosphere as thick as a highland mist, The Sunday Phi… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
4. The Reckoning (John Madden, #4)
By: Rennie Airth
4.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Inspector John Madden--who debuted in River of Darkness--returns in a gripping postWorld War II mur… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- relationships
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
6. They Came Like Swallows
By: William Maxwell
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an… read more
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7. Never Change
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.87
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Elizabeth Berg has penned an unforgettable tale about second chances that tugs hard at the heart st… read more
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- adult fiction
- relationships
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand."-Elizabeth Berg, Never Change
"But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one kno…"-Elizabeth Berg, Never Change
"The summer I was ten years old, there was a group of kids in my neighborhood who played together every night after dinner. I often watched them from my window…Every night around nine-thirty or ten, t…"-Elizabeth Berg, Never Change
8. Blessings
By: Anna Quindlen
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- audiobook
"The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility."-Anna Quindlen, Blessings
"She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetu…"-Anna Quindlen, Blessings
"Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the las…"-Anna Quindlen, Blessings
9. The Death of Kings (John Madden, #5)
By: Rennie Airth
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth novel in the John Madden mystery series, Inspector Madden is called upon to assist Sco… read more
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10. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Becoming Ted
By: Matt Cain
3.90
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly joyful, surprising story about love, acceptance, and self-expression from the acclaime… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
12. The Confession Club (Mason, #3)
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.75
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
USA TODAY BESTSELLER • An uplifting novel about friendship, surprising revelations, and a second ch… read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- relationships
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
14. How to Read a Book
By: Monica Wood
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book
15. Old Lovegood Girls
By: Gail Godwin
3.51
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Flora and Evensong comes the story of two remarkable … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
"We could all do with some silence, just sitting back in a dark theater and watching humans living and working and discovering their affinities without any words."-Gail Godwin, Old Lovegood Girls
"Merry didn’t believe Feron had any idea of her homesickness. Now Ritchie was the complete opposite. He loved being away from home and at twelve was making plans for traveling the world. What made him…"-Gail Godwin, Old Lovegood Girls
16. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Henry, Himself
By: Stewart O'Nan
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life tryin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- relationships
- marriage
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
"Her anger was the fuel she used to keep going."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
"Being agreeable didn't make people less difficult."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
"Just contemplating the energy required to make small talk tired him."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
"Like a funeral, a birthday wasn't yours but for the people who loved you."-Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself
18. Devil Makes Three
By: Ben Fountain
3.81
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. One of the Boys
By: Jayne Cowie
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A mother knows best... Doesn't she?Antonia and Bea are sisters. They are both doting mothers to the… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
20. What Cannot Be Lost: How Jesus Holds Us Together When Life Is Falling Apart
By: Melissa Zaldivar
4.38
Format: None pages, ebook
Author Melissa Zaldivar talks honestly about losing everything that once defined her and how God us… read more
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- audiobook
21. Throw Me to the Wolves
By: Patrick McGuinness
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and a neighbor,… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
