Hestia Strikes a Match
By: Christine Grillo
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and …
Want to Read $ 11.99"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calendar."-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calendar."-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Because when your performances get his attention, well, then you've got his attention, and do you actually want all that attention? It's exhausting."-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Because when your performances get his attention, well, then you've got his attention, and do you actually want all that attention? It's exhausting."-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
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1. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
2. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
3. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
4. Margo's Got Money Troubles
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more
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"I’m just saying,"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
5. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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6. 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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7. The Future
By: Naomi Alderman
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
8. The Husbands
By: Holly Gramazio
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more
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9. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
10. 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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"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
11. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
12. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
13. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
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14. People Collide
By: Isle McElroy
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
16. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
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"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
17. The Ministry of Time
By: Kaliane Bradley
3.62
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more
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"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
18. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
19. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
20. Homebodies
By: Tembe Denton-Hurst
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more
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21. My Murder
By: Katie Williams
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable… read more
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22. Every Rising Sun
By: Jamila Ahmed
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights , Shaherazade, at the center of her own story,… read more
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"Men and women before you have been betrayed. Men and women after you will be betrayed. But to be betrayed is not to be broken. And to be broken is not be become a killer."-Jamila Ahmed, Every Rising Sun
23. The Breakup Vacation (Beach House)
By: Anna Gracia
2.71
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The summer before senior year of college has arrived, and Grace has been anticipating an important … read more
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24. 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
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- audiobook
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
25. The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman
By: Molly Lynch
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fates and Furies meets Melancholia in this ominous and absorbing debut novel about marriage and mot… read more
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26. Hestia Strikes a Match
By: Christine Grillo
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more
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"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
27. If We're Being Honest
By: Cat Shook
3.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more
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- humor
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- contemporary
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"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest
28. No Son of Mine: A Memoir (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)
By: Jonathan Corcoran
4.55
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
"A lyrical and uncompromisingly honest memoir" - **Starred review in Kirkus!** Born and raised … read more
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29. How to Care for a Human Girl
By: Ashley Wurzbacher
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From “a writer at the top of her game” ( The New York Times ) comes a bighearted and sharply funny … read more
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30. Ninetails: Nine Tales
By: Sally Wen Mao
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of … read more
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31. The Villain Edit
By: Laurie Devore
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Emily Henry meets Fleabag ...and The Bachelor ! An irresistibly sharp and sexy dramedy about a cyni… read more
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