My Mother's House
By: Francesca Momplaisir
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous …
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1. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
By: Mona Awad
3.07
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way… read more
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"The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"What does she even eat, do you think?" "Tea fungus,"Ruth says. "Unsweetened. From an eye dropper. Is what I picture. either that or some sort of sea vegetable." "Sad," I say. "It is," Ruth muses. We …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
2. Bone White
By: Ronald Malfi
3.89
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
A landscape of frozen darkness punctuated by grim, gray days. The feeling like a buzz in your tee… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
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- fantasy
- audiobook
3. Brief Cases (The Dresden Files #15.5)
By: Jim Butcher
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Unknown Binding
Brief Casesis the sequel anthology of Side Jobs, and will be released before Peace Talks Set to inc… read more
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- mystery
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- audiobook
4. Breath, Eyes, Memory
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Black Chalk
By: Christopher J. Yates
4.13
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford Univer… read more
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6. Deeper Than the Dead (Oak Knoll, #1)
By: Tami Hoag
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
California, 1985. Four children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially… read more
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7. Nestlings
By: Nat Cassidy
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
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- horror
- audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings
8. Looking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
3.49
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more
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"Potatoes make everything okay."-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound
9. Jawbone
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
10. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
11. It's Not All Downhill from Here
By: Terry McMillan
3.85
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."-Terry McMillan, It's Not All Downhill from Here
12. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- horror
13. Mirrorland
By: Carole Johnstone
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a th… read more
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- horror
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- audiobook
14. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
15. The Creeper
By: A.M. Shine
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help… read more
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16. Small Town Horror
By: Ronald Malfi
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more
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17. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- audiobook
- horror
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
18. The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
By: Rhett McLaughlin
3.94
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creator… read more
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- fiction
- horror
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- fantasy
- audiobook
19. Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1)
By: Liz Kerin
3.91
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrou… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
20. Lakewood
By: Megan Giddings
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentati… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- audiobook
"People feel more loyalty to how they think things should be than to other people, including their family."-Megan Giddings, Lakewood
"She suddenly understood the thought experiments better based on this feeling, the uncanniness of someone you love being able to abruptly articulate a single feeling. Friendship, family, and romance b…"-Megan Giddings, Lakewood
"People want to believe these research studies are about something simple that they can relate to like winning a contest. They don’t want to think about why a government would want to experiment on it…"-Megan Giddings, Lakewood
"I meant to ask him, What did you do to me? But it came out as Why would you do this to someone? My mouth said it multiple times. I didn't mean the drug, I meant the experiments. But Smith took it to …"-Megan Giddings, Lakewood
21. The Thing in the Snow
By: Sean Adams
3.34
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel—equal p… read more
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22. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
By: Hope Jahren
4.14
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our t… read more
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- audiobook
"All measures of conservation, as well as all technologies meant to wean us from fossil fuels, are worth pursuing in the same way that doing something is always more than doing nothing."-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"We are strong and lucky. Our planet is home to many who struggle to survive on too little. The fact that we are of the group with food, shelter, and clean water obligates us not to give up on the wor…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"Convincing people to examine their energy use is like trying to get them to quit smoking or eat more healthfully: they already know that they should do it, but there is a billion-dollar industry work…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"All species will go extinct eventually, even our own: it is one of nature's few imperatives. As of today, however, that train has not quite left the station. We still have some control over our demis…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
23. And Then I Woke Up
By: Malcolm Devlin
3.48
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more
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- horror
- thriller
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"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up
". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up
"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up
"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up
24. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
25. Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more
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- fiction
- horror
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26. These Ghosts Are Family
By: Maisy Card
3.66
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
27. Things Don't Break on Their Own
By: Sarah Easter Collins
3.95
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. … read more
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28. The Bus on Thursday
By: Shirley Barrett
3.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman’s post-cancer r… read more
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29. My Mother's House
By: Francesca Momplaisir
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous … read more
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30. The House of Deep Water
By: Jeni McFarland
3.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving, but three women couldn'… read more
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31. The Coyotes of Carthage
By: Steven Wright
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Toussaint Andre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful African-American political consu… read more
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