The Son of Good Fortune
By: Lysley Tenorio
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. But Excel knows that h…
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1. Arts & Entertainments
By: Christopher R. Beha
3.19
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity—a deliciously … read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
2. Brother, I'm Dying
By: Edwidge Danticat
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving fa… read more
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- family
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"He shouldn’t be here,"-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
"Maybe we're all dying, one breath at a time."-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
"His entire life was now reduced to an odd curiosity, a looting opportunity."-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
"Suddenly he understood the true workings of a mob, one infuriated body morphing into another until they all became limbs to one raging monster."-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
3. Dragon Springs Road
By: Janie Chang
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Three Soulscomes a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th cen… read more
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- adult
- fiction
4. Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology
By: David Hontiveros , Dean Francis Alfar , Celestine Trinidad , Budjette Tan , Rochita Loenen-Ruiz , None , Paolo Chikiamco , Eliza Victoria , Raissa Rivera Falgui , None , None , None
4.60
Format: 645 pages, ebook
Philippine mythology is full of images that ignite the imagination: gods of calamity and baldness, … read more
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5. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- literary fiction
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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
6. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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7. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
8. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
By: Deborah Jackson Taffa
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more
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- audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
9. 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
10. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
11. Property: Stories Between Two Novellas
By: Lionel Shriver
3.85
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property … read more
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"Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive."-Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas
"The romances between strangers are somewhere between inaccessible and incomprehensible to other people..."-Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas
12. America Is Not the Heart
By: Elaine Castillo
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"There are mercies, and there are mercies."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"A name had a lifespan like anything else."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You know what it's like to have a fate; you also know what it's like to escape one."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
13. Honey
By: Victor Lodato
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more
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14. Chronicles of a Radical Hag
By: Lorna Landvik
3.90
Format: None pages, ebook
A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times trace… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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"Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives."-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only …"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"This is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was her desire to be the first to wish me a happ…"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
15. Ghostroots: Stories
By: 'Pemi Aguda
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more
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16. Doxology
By: Nell Zink
3.45
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape toge… read more
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17. The Son of Good Fortune
By: Lysley Tenorio
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. But Excel knows that h… read more
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- coming of age
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- contemporary
- asian literature
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- adult
- audiobook
18. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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19. Come with Me
By: Helen Schulman
2.92
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, A Ne… read more
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20. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
21. Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year before College
By: Jeff Hobbs
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
THE BESTSELLING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF 'THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF ROBERT… read more
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