Such Good Work
By: Johannes Lichtman
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving…
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1. Single, Carefree, Mellow
By: Katherine Heiny
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Single, Carefree, Mellow is that rare and wonderful thing: a debut that is superbly accomplished, e… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Children of Men
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more
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4. The Light of the World
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the… read more
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5. A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1)
By: Vikram Seth
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both t… read more
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6. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
By: Jake Adelstein
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Poli… read more
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7. Skippy Dies
By: Paul Murray
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more
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8. The Peacock and the Sparrow
By: I.S. Berry
3.81
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more
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- fiction
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
9. The Dog of the North
By: Elizabeth Mckenzie
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Portable Veblen Penny Rush has problems. H… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"How could she know? We discover things about our spouses no one else ever will. Marriage is one long striptease of the soul."-Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Dog of the North
10. Robert B. Parker's Bad Influence (Sunny Randall #11)
By: Alison Gaylin
4.10
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
Sunny Randall’s newest client, Blake, seems to have it all: he is an Instagram influencer, with all… read more
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11. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
12. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
13. Wash Day Diaries
By: Jamila Rowser
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
14. Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.64
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more
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- contemporary
"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
15. Games and Rituals
By: Katherine Heiny
3.82
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Some people say that migraines feel like bad hangovers. And some people say that migraines feel like headaches that pulse. And some people say that migraines feel like stomach flu in your head. But w…"-Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals
16. Take What You Need
By: Idra Novey
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
17. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
18. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
19. Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
By: Jac Jemc
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins K… read more
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- fiction
"Loneliness is keenest when in the company of others, when comparisons suggest that everyone else is relating to and forming bonds with one another ... To make a connection requires risking rejection.…"-Jac Jemc, Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
20. Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
22. Parakeet
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino's Parakeet is a darkly funny a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Life has no past tense: To remember something is to relive it."-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
"I will have thousands upon thousands of days and this is merely one of them. This thought brings relief."-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
"There are intimacies that don't involve marriage just as there are marriages that don't involve intimacy. The mind provides the only possible privacy so what is more intimate than thought? If intimac…"-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
"There are intimacies that don't involve marriage just as there are marriages that don't involve intimacy. The mind provides the only possible privacy so what is more intimate than thought? If intimac…"-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
23. Hope
By: Andrew Ridker
3.67
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
24. The Stolen Coast
By: Dwyer Murphy
3.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up i… read more
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- contemporary
"The experience was collective, but not the memory."-Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast
25. The Sorrows of Others
By: Ada Zhang
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
26. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children i… read more
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27. Scattered All Over the Earth
By: Yōko Tawada
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more
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- contemporary
"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
28. Company
By: Shannon Sanders
3.92
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
29. Gold Diggers
By: Sanjena Sathian
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An Indian-American magical realist coming of age story, spanning two continents, two coasts, and fo… read more
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- contemporary
"We were both conceptual orphans. Perhaps that is the condition of any second generation. In the space between us and the rest of adulthood lay a great expanse of the unknown. We had not grown up imbi…"-Sanjena Sathian, Gold Diggers
30. This Burns My Heart
By: Samuel Park
3.76
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
In this compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggl… read more
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- fiction
"Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready."-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us ne…"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
"Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? There is no other word f…"-Samuel Park, This Burns My Heart
31. Such Good Work
By: Johannes Lichtman
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving… read more
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