5 must-read mystery books like Leda and the Swan by Anna Caritj

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Leda and the Swan

By: Anna Caritj

2.89

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Anna Caritj's LEDA AND THE SWAN, about a female college student who wakes after a wild Halloween fr…

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1. My Salinger Year

By: Joanna Rakoff

3.77

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties,… read more

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2. California

By: Edan Lepucki

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningl… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. The Darlings

By: Cristina Alger

4.12

Format: 80 pages,

A sophisticated page-turner about a wealthy New York family embroiled in a financial scandal with c… read more

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4. Bone Gap

By: Laura Ruby

3.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps--gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disa… read more

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5. Ali's Pretty Little Lies (Pretty Little Liars, #0.5)

By: Sara Shepard

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Before there was A, there was Alison DiLaurentis. Boys wanted to date her, girls wanted to be her, … read more

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6. 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
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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7. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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8. The Force of Such Beauty

By: Barbara Bourland

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Running was the only sport that could not be segregated by the government, could not be kept down by oppression, could not be bought out from under the feet of my peers. They could not, you see - the…"

-Barbara Bourland, The Force of Such Beauty

"It isn't until you feel safe that you realize how difficult it was before, when you were constantly afraid, as though you have been hearing a noise in the background for so long that you cannot pick …"

-Barbara Bourland, The Force of Such Beauty

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9. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • audiobook
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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10. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"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

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11. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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12. The Glow

By: Jessie Gaynor

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."

-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow

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13. Rewind

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.69

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

PLAY Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden came… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Wives Like Us

By: Plum Sykes

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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

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16. The Truants

By: Kate Weinberg

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Where do I find Crime?’ ‘Crime doesn’t have its own section,’ said the librarian without lookin… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"There's nothing I love more than watching a river--one of the few places where you actually get to see time carving itself into the landscape. The past flowing into the future."

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

"....time remembered does not flow smoothly at all. If you are going to imagine sand seeping through an hourglass, then you'd do better to think of it as having grown damp, somehow. Instead of memorie…"

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

"What is it about an unsolved mystery...that captures us so. that makes us lean forward. looking for an answer? Is it just the challenge of cracking it ourselves or do we rather hope that it will neve…"

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

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17. Girlfriend on Mars

By: Deborah Willis

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Groupies

By: Sarah Priscus

3.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a debut perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six, Mary Jane, and The Final Revival of Opal & Ne… read more

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  • coming of age
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Desire's not deviant. It's human nature."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"If I didn’t do this one thing, I’d never do anything at all."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"We needed something to nurture, and they needed nurturing. Constant attention made you need it even more. The band never learned to be alone and neither did we. But if they were starved for attention…"

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

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19. Topics of Conversation

By: Miranda Popkey

2.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voic… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It was his desperation I despised."

-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

"Having a baby, in any case, is never ethical."

-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

"I know how this sounds; I mean, now I know how it sounds."

-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

"Good intentions, sure, but when have they ever been enough."

-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

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20. Pomegranate

By: Helen Elaine Lee

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love, following a queer Black woman who w… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. Vagablonde

By: Anna Dorn

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Halt During the Chase

By: Rosemary Tonks

3.61

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Sophie—a clever and charming young woman—is trying to get out from under her mother’s thumb. She’s … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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23. Leda and the Swan

By: Anna Caritj

2.89

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Anna Caritj's LEDA AND THE SWAN, about a female college student who wakes after a wild Halloween fr… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • coming of age
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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24. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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26. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • audiobook
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27. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Marvelous

By: Claire Kann

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Let's Talk About Love, t his YA novel follows a young woman as she host san epic… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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30. The Art of Pretend

By: Lauren Kuhl

3.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A tantalizing debut about a woman drawn into the orbit of her friend's wealthy artist family in New… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook

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Edan Lepucki

4.43

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Day

Michael Cunningham

3.57

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Barbara Bourland

4.04

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

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