Groundskeeping
By: Lee Cole
3.57
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to li…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Complication makes life interesting."-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"You know how doctors are, he said. Could be weeks, could be months. They say it’s not an exact science. I’m like, “What are we paying you for then? Isn’t medicine an exact science?"-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"Love is simple, she said. That’s my advice to both of you, not that you’re asking for it….People try to make it complicated , but it’s very simple, she said. You’ll realize that when you’re dying."-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"We both laughed. I felt the competing desires, as I often did when meeting someone new, to know everything at once and to save it all for later. It was like the feeling one has reading a good book, the sensation of being propelled toward the end and at the same time wishing to linger."-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
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1. The Latecomer
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.01
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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- adult
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2. Amazing Grace Adams
By: Fran Littlewood
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
4. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
5. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- audiobook
6. French Braid
By: Anne Tyler
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more
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- adult fiction
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
7. True Biz
By: Sara Nović
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"No one is comforted by salad."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"-Sara Nović, True Biz
"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."-Sara Nović, True Biz
8. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
9. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
10. The Waters
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
11. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
By: Jamie Ford
3.87
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how sh… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Don't change. Instead change the world."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"We don't have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost. That which was never allowed to be."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"The bandleader sang 'Every time I see a crowd of people, just like a fool, I stop and stare. It's really not the proper thing to do, but maybe you'll be there."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what's inside, to unpack the things you do not need. Karma is the climate of the past which shapes how much leeway we …"-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
12. Swift River
By: Essie J. Chambers
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River
13. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
14. The Sun Sets in Singapore
By: Kehinde Fadipe
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, low tax rate, and luxury goods market, Dara, Amaka, and Li… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. Sam
By: Allegra Goodman
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What happens to a girl’s exuberance and wonder as she becomes a woman? This unforgettable portrait … read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
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- adult
- audiobook
16. This Time Tomorrow
By: Emma Straub
3.80
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, belo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"This time tomorrow, where will we be?"-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow
"Forward, that was the idea. Until the future, whatever it was going to be."-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow
"It's not about the time. It's about how you spend it. Where you put your energy."-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow
"Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good."-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow
17. These Impossible Things
By: Salma El-Wardany
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A razor‑sharp debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A woman has a way of screaming with her whole body that only other women can hear."-Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things
18. Bright Burning Things
By: Lisa Harding
3.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast ca… read more
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19. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
20. Groundskeeping
By: Lee Cole
3.57
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to li… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- politics
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Complication makes life interesting."-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"You know how doctors are, he said. Could be weeks, could be months. They say it’s not an exact science. I’m like, “What are we paying you for then? Isn’t medicine an exact science?"-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"Love is simple, she said. That’s my advice to both of you, not that you’re asking for it….People try to make it complicated , but it’s very simple, she said. You’ll realize that when you’re dying."-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"We both laughed. I felt the competing desires, as I often did when meeting someone new, to know everything at once and to save it all for later. It was like the feeling one has reading a good book, t…"-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
21. 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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