The Knockout Queen
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.70
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bu…
Want to Read $ 8.99"At root, I seemed to be upset about the existence of physical power at all. That violence is nothing but another kind of touching."-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"You can hit. Not anybody in this world can really and truly stop you if hitting is how you want to be. But if you do, you’re risking all that love you could have. Because nobody, nobody, nobody is going to stand around all day for you to hit just hoping to give you love in return."-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"But sometimes when you are in a moment, it’s so close to your face, reality, it’s pressed up so close to you, that you just flinch, you react, and then your fate is decided, and all you have done was what you couldn’t help doing, and yet your fate is decided. You’ve done something that can’t be taken back."-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
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1. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
2. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
3. 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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- romance
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
5. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"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
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"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
"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
"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
7. 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
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
8. 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
- audiobook
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River
9. 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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- romance
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
10. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
By: Steven Rowley
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
11. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
12. I Hope This Finds You Well
By: Natalie Sue
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
13. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
14. Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
3.83
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. The Return of Ellie Black
By: Emiko Jean
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
16. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
17. Slow Dance
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up to… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora."-Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance
18. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By: Kirsten Miller
4.19
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- audiobook
20. The Night We Lost Him
By: Laura Dave
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that m… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
22. The Knockout Queen
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.70
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bu… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"At root, I seemed to be upset about the existence of physical power at all. That violence is nothing but another kind of touching."-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"You can hit. Not anybody in this world can really and truly stop you if hitting is how you want to be. But if you do, you’re risking all that love you could have. Because nobody, nobody, nobody is go…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"But sometimes when you are in a moment, it’s so close to your face, reality, it’s pressed up so close to you, that you just flinch, you react, and then your fate is decided, and all you have done was…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
23. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
24. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
25. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
26. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
27. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
29. Five-Star Stranger
By: Kat Tang
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Madwoman
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
31. We Love the Nightlife
By: Rachel Koller Croft
3.59
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe in this dark and dazzli… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
