Vigil Harbor
By: Julia Glass
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award winner, a symphonic communal novel about a small coastal town where cl…
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1. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
2. Mercy Street
By: Jennifer Haigh
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
5. Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
6. Tracy Flick Can't Win
By: Tom Perrotta
3.64
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win
"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win
7. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
8. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
10. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
12. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
13. The Lioness
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.72
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
"We all look forward- at least, I suppose, until you get to be my age - but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday. And it was only yesterday, wasn't it? Was…"-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
14. The Midcoast
By: Adam White
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
17. Mercury Pictures Presents
By: Anthony Marra
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
18. Marrying the Ketchups
By: Jennifer Close
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
19. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
20. The Catch
By: Alison Fairbrother
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electri… read more
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21. Vigil Harbor
By: Julia Glass
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award winner, a symphonic communal novel about a small coastal town where cl… read more
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- dystopia
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- climate change fiction
- speculative fiction
- environment
- audiobook
