A Bit Much
By: Sarah Jackson
3.69
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complex…
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1. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
2. The Adult
By: Bronwyn Fischer
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance. In the wet grass… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
4. 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
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
5. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
6. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
7. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
8. Okay Days
By: Jenny Mustard
3.76
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days
9. Interesting Facts about Space
By: Emily R. Austin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
10. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
11. The Fake
By: Zoe Whittall
3.44
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"There are worse things than telling a lie."-Zoe Whittall, The Fake
12. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
13. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
14. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
15. Hey, Good Luck Out There
By: Georgia Toews
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toew… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
16. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
17. Good Girl
By: Anna Fitzpatrick
3.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Secretary meets Fleabag in Anna Fitzpatrick's hot and hilarious comic-erotic debut. Lucy tries s… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
18. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
19. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- audiobook
20. Green Fuse Burning
By: Tiffany Morris
3.88
Format: 107 pages, ebook
The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars. After the death … read more
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- adult
- fiction
21. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
22. Self Care
By: Leigh Stein
3.14
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Leaving New York was always a reminder of the millions of people who would never choose your life or your lifestyle, the one you fought so hard to have, to prove how special you were."-Leigh Stein, Self Care
23. Sad Janet
By: Lucie Britsch
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For as long as I can remember feeling things, I’ve felt sadness. Now, for example, I feel sad that … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"What do you mean I can't get a job? I'm an expert on nineteenth-century homoerotic literature."-Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet
"As a woman, I'm hard-wired to be always thinking about babies even if what I'm thinking is that I definitely don't want any. Mostly I want to forget I'm a woman and just be a person, but it's almost …"-Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet
"So maybe I willed it to me, the sadness. And since then I've been storing it all up when I should have been throwing it out. Hoarding sadness like I think there'll be a TV show about it one day and s…"-Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet
"In the ad, this better version of me is sitting in her apartment watching TV, just like I am now, only her apartment is obviously much nicer than mine. For authenticity they even have a pizza box ope…"-Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet
24. The Damages
By: Genevieve Scott
3.61
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more
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- adult fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
25. Utopia
By: Heidi Sopinka
3.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Out of the explosive 1970s L.A. art scene comes a riveting novel about creativity, death, and reinv… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
26. A Bit Much
By: Sarah Jackson
3.69
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complex… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
27. Once More, with Feeling
By: Sophie McCreesh
3.01
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Calling to mind smart, deadpan and unrepentant novels such as The New Me and My Year of Rest and Re… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
"Nothing bad has ever happened to the well-adjusted, so they assume the world will always be ready to receive them, in all their positivity and grace."-Sophie McCreesh, Once More, with Feeling
28. Mudflowers
By: Aley Waterman
3.37
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a ne… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
29. How It Works Out
By: Myriam Lacroix
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
30. Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir
By: Emma Healey
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A witty, soulful memoir about trying to make a living under the burden of unwelcome truths. Emma… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
31. Sharp Edges
By: Leah Mol
3.47
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
For readers of My Dark Vanessa and Lullabies for Little Criminals, this important, electrifying nov… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
