The Unpassing
By: Chia-Chia Lin
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through…
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1. Song
By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent fo… read more
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2. The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth (The Unreal and the Real, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.24
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Unreal and the Realis a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K.… read more
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3. The Tenderness of Wolves
By: Stef Penney
3.80
Format: 242 pages,
A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the Uni… read more
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- fiction
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4. The Last Ballad
By: Wiley Cash
4.67
Format: 121 pages, ebook
The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Homereturns with this eagerly awaited… read more
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- adult fiction
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- adult
5. Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capital #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.77
Format: 342 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Saltreturns with a riv… read more
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- fiction
6. The Age of Doubt (Inspector Montalbano, #14)
By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Potter's Field, winner of the Crime Writers' Assoc… read more
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7. No-No Boy
By: John Okada
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more
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8. Chouette
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more
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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
9. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
10. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Beauty of Impossible Things
By: Rachel Donohue
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Foresight is not always a gift... Natasha Rothwell leads a sheltered life with her beautiful, bo… read more
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- contemporary
12. The Plotters
By: Kim Un-Su
3.58
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
From the novelist dubbed "the Korean Henning Mankell" (The Guardian) comes a fantastical crime nove… read more
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- adult
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"Black tea is steeped in imperialism. That's what gives it its flavor. Anything this flavorful has to be hiding an incredible amount of carnage."-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
"That's life. Not much to it. Just one big stinking, filthy squalid mess. But once you get a taste of it - ah! Then it's not so bad. Sometimes it's even delicious."-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
"He believed that people should emulate whales. He said that people had grown as small and crafty as rats , and that the days of taking slow, huge, beautiful strides had vanished, The age of giants wa…"-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
"But just as a vaccine company facing bankruptcy will ultimately survive not by making the world's greatest vaccine but, rather, the world's worst virus, so, too, did bodyguard and security firms need…"-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters
13. This Little Family
By: Inès Bayard
3.85
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Marie and Laurent, a young, affluent couple, have settled into their large Paris apartment and deci… read more
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14. Ghost Of
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.36
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more
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- asian literature
- family
- contemporary
15. We, The Survivors
By: Tash Aw
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story … read more
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"Friendship is not necessary for closeness"-Tash Aw, We, The Survivors
16. Where Reasons End
By: Yiyun Li
3.76
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- asian literature
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- audiobook
"If we don’t have to earn our time, how easily we squander it."-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
"Sadness is a helpless garrison against the blindness of tragedy."-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
"Not knowing is okay, he had once said, but pretending to know is not."-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
17. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
By: Morgan Jerkins
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing… read more
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18. The Tenth Muse
By: Catherine Chung
4.03
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be.… read more
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19. New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
By: Thomas Dyja
3.91
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York… read more
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20. The Unpassing
By: Chia-Chia Lin
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through… read more
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- novels
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- family
- audiobook
