The Learning Curve
By: Mandy Berman
3.35
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
A love triangle between two college friends and a charismatic professor alters the lives of everyon…
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1. Fellow Travelers
By: Thomas Mallon
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more
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- fiction
2. Prep
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
3. Seating Arrangements
By: Maggie Shipstead
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Hardcover
Winn Van Meter is heading for his family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. N… read more
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4. The Forever Summer
By: Jamie Brenner
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
*A USA Today Bestseller* Named one of Coastal Living's 50 Best Books for the Beach, one of Fort Wor… read more
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5. Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
By: Conor Grennan
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and h… read more
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6. The All of It
By: Jeannette Haien
4.67
Format: None pages,
Jeannette Haien's award-winning first novel relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner conf… read more
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7. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
8. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
9. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
10. It All Comes Down to This
By: Therese Anne Fowler
3.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mo… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
11. 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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- 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
12. Early Morning Riser
By: Katherine Heiny
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family Jane f… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Does Gary have to come too?" "You know as well as I do that Gary doesn't like to be alone after dark," Duncan said. "He says the toilet whispers."-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser
"Sometimes she though being with her mother was like crossing a desert: long, hard stretches of burning sand that exhausted you, but every once in a while, you happened on a little oasis of kindness."-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser
"Another woman was accompanied by a man with the most unfortunate facial hair Jane had ever seen—a moustache no thicker than dental floss that started under his nose and continued down either side of …"-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser
"Jimmy gave a startled yelp. She had put cute little candy cane striped glass cocktail stirrers in everyone's drinks and Jimmy had thought they were real candy canes and bitten his in half. "Goodness.…"-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser
13. Do You Remember Being Born?
By: Sean Michaels
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
14. The Caretakers
By: Amanda Bestor-Siegal
3.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
15. God Spare the Girls
By: Kelsey McKinney
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover a dark secret about … read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
16. 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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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
18. This Is How We End Things
By: R.J. Jacobs
3.49
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by RJ Jacobs, foll… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
20. Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
By: Nash Jenkins
3.88
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Prep meets The Secret History in this sprawling debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American p… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"When I witness certain moments I believe I am a voyeur to the memories being made, and it makes me sad"-Nash Jenkins, Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
21. Supper Club
By: Lara Williams
3.46
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who mee… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
22. Boys of Alabama
By: Genevieve Hudson
3.35
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, question… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
23. I Could Live Here Forever
By: Hanna Halperin
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Halperin’s radiant second novel walks the fine line between the longing for couplehood and the tor… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Losing her has never stopped. While her disappearance happened fast, overnight - it's been a slow, endless transformation of our lives."-Hanna Halperin, I Could Live Here Forever
"There are certain memories I'd never write down or tell anyone. I know what happens when you write things down. They change shape. Some of the feeling goes away. Things on the page are never as rich …"-Hanna Halperin, I Could Live Here Forever
"Charlie had explained to me once what heroin felt like. He said, "Imagine you're in pain - the most excruciating pain of your life. Your skin is on fire and your thoughts are agonizing you and any in…"-Hanna Halperin, I Could Live Here Forever
24. A Likely Story
By: Leigh McMullan Abramson
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything s… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"People who publish are writers. No one says, 'I'm a lawyer' because they act out imaginary court scenes in their bedrooms."-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story
"The flip side of her steady dependability was that she had no margin for error. If Claire forgot a birthday or was five minutes late, it was intolerable precisely because it happened so infrequently.…"-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story
25. How to Save a Life
By: Eva Carter
3.76
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this heartfelt love story, three friends find out what it really means to save someone. Kerry… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
26. Dishonestly Yours (Webs We Weave, #1)
By: Krista Ritchie
3.89
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Starting fresh is the only way Phoebe can escape a life of crime, but her best friend's older broth… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Central Places
By: Delia Cai
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
28. Negative Space
By: Gillian Linden
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
29. If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
By: Neel Patel
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In these eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotyp… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I wasn't always this way. But the friction of life has a way of turning sharp edges into smooth ones, smooth edges into sharp ones, until you've become a duller, slightly misshapen version of your fo…"-Neel Patel, If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
30. I Want You More
By: Swan Huntley
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
31. The Learning Curve
By: Mandy Berman
3.35
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
A love triangle between two college friends and a charismatic professor alters the lives of everyon… read more
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- college
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
