Invitation to a Bonfire
By: Adrienne Celt
3.38
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a…
Want to Read $ 13.60"Her morning thoughts were frequently on the darker side, given as she was to holding over the remnants of forgotten dreams."-Adrienne Celt, Invitation to a Bonfire
"Her morning thoughts were frequently on the darker side, given as she was to holding over the remnants of forgotten dreams."-Adrienne Celt, Invitation to a Bonfire
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1. Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe
By: Alina Bronsky
4.10
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
»Wenn ich mich in meinem Alter noch über Menschen wundern würde, käme ich nicht mehr zum Zähneputze… read more
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- literary fiction
- russia
- fiction
- contemporary
"Bananen sind Spiegelei für die Sinne, sie sind eigentlich zu süß, lassen sich aber gut kauen."-Alina Bronsky, Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe
"Politika, žinoma, svarbu, bet vis tiek reikia pačiam žinoti, kada tręšti bulves, jei vėliau norėsi valgyti bulvių košę."-Alina Bronsky, Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe
"Wir sind den Menschen unheimlich. Sie scheinen zu glauben, dass die Todeszone sich an die Grenzen hält, die Menschen auf Landkarten einzeichnen."-Alina Bronsky, Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe
"Wie viel einfacher habe ich es mein ganzes Leben lang gehabt. Nie schön gewesen zu sein bedeutet, keine Angst gehabt zu haben, die Schönheit zu verlieren."-Alina Bronsky, Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe
2. The Fountain Overflows
By: Rebecca West , Andrea Barrett
3.70
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for insta… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is."-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
"but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever."-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
"She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them."-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
"Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving…"-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
3. MY LIFE AS A WHORE : THE BIOGRAPHY OF MADAM LAURA EVENS 1871-1953
By: Tracy Beach
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An extensively researched book about a well-known Colorado madam, but most of what's known about he… read more
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4. Robinson (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.60
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A suspense novel about three castaways marooned on an island owned by an eccentric recluse. January… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1)
By: C.J. Skuse
3.90
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
The last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead…I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
6. Every Day Above Ground (Van Shaw #3)
By: Glen Erik Hamilton
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw in t… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- thriller
- fiction
7. Orient
By: Christopher Bollen
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A gripping novel of culture clash and murder: as summer draws to a close, a small Long Island town … read more
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8. The Sunlight Pilgrims
By: Jenni Fagan
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over, each day colder than the last. There's snow … read more
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9. Echoes
By: Danielle Steel
3.65
Format: 432 pages,
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the gu… read more
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10. His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of… read more
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11. Give Me Your Hand
By: Megan Abbott
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
The thriller, promised to be Abbott's "biggest and best yet", weaves together two time frames to te… read more
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12. Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: A Journey into the Evil Mind
By: Christopher Berry-Dee
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pi… read more
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13. History of Wolves
By: Emily Fridlund
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minne… read more
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14. The Golden Gate
By: Amy Chua
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
15. She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
By: Carl Zimmer
4.16
Format: 657 pages, Hardcover
Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overvi… read more
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"The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries bec…"-Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
"It is true that humans have physical differences, and some of those differences are spread geographically across the plant. But clinging to old notions about race won't help us understand the nature …"-Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
16. The Botanist (Washington Poe, #5)
By: M.W. Craven
4.55
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . . .' Detective Serge… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
17. Those People Next Door
By: Kia Abdullah
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A Quick Reads story from award winning author Kia Abdullah ‘Abdullah’s legal thrillers make John… read more
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- thriller
18. Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
19. Actress
By: Anne Enright
3.44
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
20. Blackfish City
By: Sam J. Miller
3.58
Format: 336 pages, ebook
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of m… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Wood smells like wealth"-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"America has fallen and I don't feel so good myself."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"Everyone can afford to be nice to each other, when no one is trying to exterminate anybody."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"Slums are always a marvel; how human desperation can seem to warp the very laws of physics."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
21. Ponti
By: Sharlene Teo
3.35
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
22. The City in the Middle of the Night
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.50
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
Would you give up everything to change the world? Humanity clings to life on January--a colonize… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Most people die for stupid reasons. The most anyone can hope for is to make some noises before that happens."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"I treat this decision the way I learned to treat my memory-panic. I stop, and I give myself space to feel all the worst emotions. Then I move forward."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"I can't do this thing anymore, where we live in a tiny space and pretend it's the whole world. People always have brand-new reasons for doing the same thing over and over."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
23. Exalted
By: Anna Dorn
3.73
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the ou… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
24. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
25. The Orchard
By: David Hopen
3.67
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
26. The Shadow at the Door (David Raker, #10.5)
By: Tim Weaver
4.13
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
THE GRIPPING DAVID RAKER SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR . . .'The … read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
27. The Arctic Curry Club
By: Dani Redd
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
‘For my whole life I had been looking for home. But why would that be in a place that I’d left? Per… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Temple House Vanishing
By: Rachel Donohue
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The New York Times Best Thrillers of 2021 "Steamily atmospheric . . . A twisted Gothic tale, emoti… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
"To create art is to go on a journey inwards. You can have the potential to find and express what you discover on this journey, regardless of the external circumstances in which you may find yourself."-Rachel Donohue, The Temple House Vanishing
29. Invitation to a Bonfire
By: Adrienne Celt
3.38
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- russia
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- mystery
"Her morning thoughts were frequently on the darker side, given as she was to holding over the remnants of forgotten dreams."-Adrienne Celt, Invitation to a Bonfire
30. The Scorched Earth
By: Rachael Blok
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Who really killed Leo Fenton? Two years ago, Ben Fenton went camping with his brother Leo. It wa… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
31. Nothing Can Hurt You
By: Nicola Maye Goldberg
3.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts col… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
"Theirs was a secret world. No one else was allowed inside. No one else was even allowed to look."-Nicola Maye Goldberg, Nothing Can Hurt You
