Lake Success
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.62
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Stre…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Only rarely had Barry seen women combine humor with success."-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
"Only rarely had Barry seen women combine humor with success."-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
"Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?"-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
"Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?"-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
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1. The Mad and the Bad
By: James Sallis , Donald Nicholson-Smith , Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.73
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose imme… read more
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- novels
- fiction
2. The Tin Can Tree
By: Anne Tyler
3.57
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings us a novel filled with "emotional pow… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
3. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
By: None
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding gr… read more
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- new york
4. Dragonfish
By: Vu Tran
3.86
Format: None pages,
A thrilling work of sophisticated suspense set amid the Vietnamese underworld in Las Vegas. Robert,… read more
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- novels
- fiction
5. The Quick and the Dead
By: Joy Williams
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
6. iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World
By: Mike Allred , Chris Roberson , Todd Klein , Laura Allred
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Told from a female zombie's perspective, this smart, witty detective series mixes urban fantasy and… read more
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7. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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8. The Sportswriter
By: Richard Ford
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more
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9. A Truck Full of Money
By: Tracy Kidder
3.21
Format: 192 pages, ebook
"Like Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Paul English grew up poor, in working-class Boston… read more
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10. I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
4.10
Format: 338 pages,
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more
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11. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
12. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
13. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
14. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- literary fiction
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
15. Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
By: Rebecca Struthers
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the inv… read more
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- audiobook
"Gli orologi non creano il tempo, ma ne misurano la nostra percezione culturale."-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"La natura è stata il nostro primo orologio e continua a scandire il tempo per coloro che se ne accorgono. Sono state la convivenza e la frequentazione diretta con la natura a far sì che l’umanità svi…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"Il concetto di tempo è inseparabile dalla nostra cultura. Nella lingua inglese, per esempio, la parola time (tempo) è la più usata. Nelle culture occidentali e capitaliste è qualcosa che abbiamo o no…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
16. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
17. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
18. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
19. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
20. The Candy House
By: Jennifer Egan
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
21. Aarteidesi aikakirjat
By: Piia Leino
3.70
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Huimaava sukellus muistojen rikkaaseen kudokseen. Kaikki olisi ehkä mennyt toisin, jollen olisi … read more
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22. The Paper Wasp
By: Lauren Acampora
3.32
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riv… read more
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- novels
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- contemporary
23. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
24. The Great Man Theory
By: Teddy Wayne
3.79
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, comes the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- american
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
25. Lake Success
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.62
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Stre… read more
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- new york
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- american
- humor
- finance
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
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"Only rarely had Barry seen women combine humor with success."-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
"Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?"-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
"We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win."-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
"A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?"-Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
26. Sweetwater
By: Jason Heaton
4.33
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
With an American presidential election looming, a decades-old plane crash is once again thrust into… read more
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27. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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28. Depth Charge
By: Jason Heaton
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Julian “Tusker” Tusk, an American archaeologist, is excavating a shipwreck half a world from home w… read more
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- novels
- fiction
29. The Last Cruise
By: Kate Christensen
3.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting high-seas adventure that combines Christensen’s signature wit, irony, and humanity to cr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
30. The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
By: Zito Madu
4.32
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
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"...the true absurdness of the world is in its pretense that so much of life is not ridiculous."-Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
"It is not absurd that someone would become a bird under great stress. What is absurd is that so many people do not."-Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
"...no matter where a home is - in Venice, New York, Paris, London, Lagos, Dakar - it becomes normal and standard once you've gone to the grocery store enough times."-Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
31. The Parking Lot Attendant
By: Nafkote Tamirat
3.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father are the two new… read more
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- literary fiction
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"There are people who help you and people who hurt you. You keep the former. You keep the former until they become the latter and hope that you never hurt the former."-Nafkote Tamirat, The Parking Lot Attendant
