Happy
By: Celina Baljeet Basra
3.64
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural …
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1. 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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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
2. 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
- contemporary
3. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
4. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- adult
- fiction
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
5. The Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
6. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
7. Inverno
By: Cynthia Zarin
2.98
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A daring, heartbreaking novel, Inverno is the book that J. D. Salinger’s Franny Glass might have wr… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
8. 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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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Early Sobrieties
By: Michael Deagler
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Don’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the wo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
10. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- adult
- fiction
11. I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
By: Mariah Stovall
3.28
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Ædnan
By: Linnea Axelsson
4.23
Format: 762 pages, Hardcover
Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more
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- adult
- fiction
13. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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14. Happy
By: Celina Baljeet Basra
3.64
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural … read more
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- cultural
- india
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- contemporary
- adult
15. Cinema Love
By: Jiaming Tang
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
17. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- contemporary
18. Godwin
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. I Want You More
By: Swan Huntley
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
20. Tehrangeles
By: Porochista Khakpour
3.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. How to Leave the House
By: Nathan Newman
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more
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