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…
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1. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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- adult fiction
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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
2. Last House
By: Jessica Shattuck
3.64
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
3. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- adult fiction
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- fiction
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4. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
5. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- adult fiction
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
6. 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
- 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
7. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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8. The Limits
By: Nell Freudenberger
3.35
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more
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- new york
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9. Wish You Weren't Here
By: Christy Schillig
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this transportive debut, a woman spending a summer in Italy finds her world completely upended–b… read more
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- fiction
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10. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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11. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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12. 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
- india
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13. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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14. Set for Life
By: Andrew Ewell
3.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A wryly funny and moving novel that captures the complexities of marriage, art, friendship, and the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
15. 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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- new york
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16. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- adult fiction
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17. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
18. Tell It to Me Singing
By: Tita Ramírez
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of se… read more
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19. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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20. The World After Alice
By: Lauren Aliza Green
3.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of … read more
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21. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
