The Lost Apothecary
By: Sarah Penner
3.75
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them…
Want to Read $ 14.99"If you want something different, the only person holding you back is you."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
"Beneath the ink strokes of my register held betrayal, anguish and...dark secrets."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
"It is the most distressing thing, Eliza, to issue pain to someone, even when you know it is for the best."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
"Healing by way of vengeance ... no such thing existed; it never had. Hurting others had only injured me further."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
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1. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
2. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. None of This Is True
By: Lisa Jewell
4.12
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True
"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True
4. First Lie Wins
By: Ashley Elston
4.05
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
5. Home Is Where the Bodies Are
By: Jeneva Rose
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
6. Listen for the Lie
By: Amy Tintera
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Men say shit,"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
"What are you doing here?"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie
7. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
8. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
9. The Fury
By: Alex Michaelides
3.38
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Character is fate"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"Love is mutual respect, and constancy- and friendship"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"Do not despair at being different. For that very difference, initially such a source of shame, so humiliating, and painful, will one day become a badge of honor and pride"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love."-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
10. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
11. The Heiress
By: Rachel Hawkins
3.87
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress
"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress
12. Weyward
By: Emilia Hart
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"-Emilia Hart, Weyward
13. Starling House
By: Alix E. Harrow
3.83
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Survival is a hard habit to break."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
14. The Lost Bookshop
By: Evie Woods
4.09
Format: 448 pages, ebook
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of myster… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
15. The Measure
By: Nikki Erlick
3.99
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
16. The Wishing Game
By: Meg Shaffer
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
17. The Four Winds
By: Kristin Hannah
4.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighti… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Love is what remains when everything else is gone."-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
"Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave."-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
"Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too."-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
"Books had always been her solace. Novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her imagination."-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
18. The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
By: Breanne Randall
3.21
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"Death doesn’t stop you from loving. It makes the love more important."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
"It was summer. And freedom. And youth. And heartbreak so hot it cauterized."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
"Looking at him was like stretching your limbs after a long nap. The first heartbreak that had sparked her curse to life."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
"Time ceases to exist for you in bookstores, and I am not sitting by for three hours while you get hot over books you have no intention of buying."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
19. The Unmaking of June Farrow
By: Adrienne Young
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance,… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow
"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow
"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow
20. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
By: Sangu Mandanna
4.11
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The thing is, being a witch is extraordinary,"-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
"That was some excellent Mary Poppins shit right there."-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
"I can’t transform the world, Jamie. The world’s too big and too messy and too stubborn."-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
"Trust is earned." "It is. But that’s only possible if someone’s willing to give you a chance."-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
21. The Lost Apothecary
By: Sarah Penner
3.75
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them… read more
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- audiobook
- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- historical fiction
"If you want something different, the only person holding you back is you."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
"Beneath the ink strokes of my register held betrayal, anguish and...dark secrets."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
"It is the most distressing thing, Eliza, to issue pain to someone, even when you know it is for the best."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
"Healing by way of vengeance ... no such thing existed; it never had. Hurting others had only injured me further."-Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
