This Burns My Heart
By: Samuel Park
3.76
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
In this compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggl…
Want to Read $ 15.99"Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready."-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready."-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
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1. Once Upon a Time, There Was You
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.28
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Home Safe and The Last Time I Saw You comes a… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
"I don't think you've even begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone, and here's what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all…"-Elizabeth Berg, Once Upon a Time, There Was You
"I'm just saying I think people are meant to be with people. You suffer in a marriage; but alone, you suffer more. Did you ever read that Mark Twain book "Extracts from Adam's Diary"? Adam thought Eve…"-Elizabeth Berg, Once Upon a Time, There Was You
"Hey. Know what happened to me today?" He sits back and crosses his arms, smiles. "No. What happened to you today?" "Well, I decided to take the bus to work instead of driving? And I got on and I sat …"-Elizabeth Berg, Once Upon a Time, There Was You
2. The Invisible Mountain
By: Carolina De Robertis
3.69
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
From Peron's glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a Mon… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Perfect Girl
By: Gilly Macmillan
3.66
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was invol… read more
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- fiction
4. Apple Tree Yard
By: Louise Doughty
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Yvonne Carmichael sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Before all of this, she was happil… read more
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- fiction
"Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night."-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard
"There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability."-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard
"Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize."-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard
"Quando decidi di non dire qualcosa devi continuare a non dirlo. Basta poco, penso. Basta poco per trasformare la tua vita in una menzogna."-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard
5. Amy Snow
By: Tracy Rees
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Left to perish on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy has never known love, never known family. Reluctant… read more
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6. The Sagas of Icelanders
By: Various , Bernard Scudder , Jane Smiley , Keneva Kunz , None , George Clark , None , None , None , None , None , Martin Regal
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literat… read more
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7. The Samurai's Garden
By: Gail Tsukiyama
3.88
Format: 96 pages,
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coast… read more
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8. The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew, #3)
By: Carolyn Keene , Russell H. Tandy , P.M. Carlson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
While trying to help a friend out of a difficulty, Nancy has a perilous experience in and around a … read more
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9. Cocoa Beach
By: Beatriz Williams
4.03
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The New York Timesbestselling author of A Certain Agetransports readers to sunny Florida in this lu… read more
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10. Please Look After Mom
By: Shin Kyung-Sook , Chi-Young Kim , None
4.62
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's n… read more
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11. The Garden of Evening Mists
By: Tan Twan Eng
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more
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12. When My Name Was Keoko
By: Linda Sue Park
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. Yet they live their lives… read more
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13. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
14. A Sliver of Darkness
By: C.J. Tudor
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The debut short story collection from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man, featuring ten bone-chi… read more
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- fiction
15. The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search
By: John O'Neill
4.20
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
A Texas oilman. A brilliant female archaeologist. An unknown world underneath the Vatican. In 1939… read more
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- historical
16. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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17. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- novels
19. The Nigerwife
By: Vanessa Walters
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more
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- fiction
"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife
20. The Dutch Orphan
By: Ellen Keith
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Dutch Wife comes a riveting novel set during World War II about a woman who … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Forest of Stolen Girls
By: June Hur
3.75
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur's The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical … read more
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- asian literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. The Great Reclamation
By: Rachel Heng
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
23. The House on Biscayne Bay
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and presen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I think it did. He was quite staggered by the place. Then again, Vizcaya tends to have that effect. Is the home that grand? It Is. Vizcaya has brought the Mediterranean to Florida."-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
"I like to think of the houses I build as having their own personalities. Oh, there's the people who are their custodians to consider, of course, a symbiosis in the relationship between the house and …"-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
24. The Color of Air
By: Gail Tsukiyama
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a go… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
25. We All Want Impossible Things
By: Catherine Newman
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things
26. It All Comes Back to You
By: Beth Duke
4.08
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Alabama, 1947. War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing. … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You were the only world I wanted to live in."-Beth Duke, It All Comes Back to You
"River says we all drink from the same stream, you know? There is not one drop of water on our planet that is new."-Beth Duke, It All Comes Back to You
27. The Moroccan Girl
By: Charles Cumming
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
THE MOROCCAN GIRL is a standalone thriller from Charles Cumming.Kit Carradine is the successful aut… read more
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- fiction
28. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
29. This Burns My Heart
By: Samuel Park
3.76
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
In this compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggl… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- cultural
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- novels
"Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready."-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us ne…"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? There is no other word f…"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
30. The Sweeney Sisters
By: Lian Dolan
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"This is a big-hearted belly-laugh of a book, told with wit and poignancy. Family secrets, laughter… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
"That's the kind of luxury that men have. They can be awful and beloved. Women don't get that kind of leeway."-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters
"Ethan knew it would never be the same. The moment that had blistered the sun, cold and burned out. Walk along young man. Walk along."-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters
"My father lived to the age where he attained a deep luster, but never too shiny that you didn’t believe him for one minute, may we all understand our own quitting time so well."-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters
"Tricia thought about all those training runs, those miserable, hot steamy miles and hills in August in the Berkshires with the team. Or the frigid early - morning speed workouts in January on the tra…"-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters
31. Such Good Work
By: Johannes Lichtman
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving… read more
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- novels
- fiction
