The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found
By: Sylvia Brownrigg
3.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed author Sylvia Brownrigg's memoir reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost…
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1. The Journalist and the Murderer
By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack
3.84
Format: 135 pages,
In The Journalist And The Murderer, Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism. She d… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
By: Jeff Guinn
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Previous books and films… read more
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3. Last House
By: Jessica Shattuck
3.64
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more
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4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- nonfiction
5. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- memoir
6. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
7. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
8. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
9. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
10. This Is Happiness
By: Niall Williams
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more
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"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
11. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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12. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
By: Barbara Weisberg
3.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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14. Daughters of Shandong
By: Eve J. Chung
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more
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15. 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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"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
16. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
By: Susan Page
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more
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- memoir
17. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
18. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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- memoir
19. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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20. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- memoir
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
21. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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22. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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23. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- memoir
24. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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- memoir
25. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- memoir
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
26. The Lemon
By: S.E. Boyd
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Set in the intersecting worlds of fine dining, Hollywood, and the media, a darkly hilarious and ult… read more
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27. The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found
By: Sylvia Brownrigg
3.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed author Sylvia Brownrigg's memoir reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost… read more
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- memoir
28. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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29. The Future Was Color
By: Patrick Nathan
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more
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30. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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31. Bright Objects
By: Ruby Todd
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequenc… read more
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