Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
By: Douglas A. Martin
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles, this genre-be…
Want to Read $ 11.99"He’d write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He’d have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all."-Douglas A. Martin, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
"He’d write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He’d have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all."-Douglas A. Martin, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
"He’d write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He’d have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all."-Douglas A. Martin, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
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1. Birds of America: Stories
By: Lorrie Moore
4.10
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work to… read more
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"I would be a genius now,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"This is a political New Year's Eve,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
2. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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- historical
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
3. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.04
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the histo… read more
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"This isn’t fair,"-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
"What do your parents know, about surviving? "-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it."-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
"..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told."-Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
4. As Meat Loves Salt
By: Maria McCann
3.91
Format: 565 pages, Paperback
In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religiou… read more
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- historical
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"Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me."-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
" Violent love eats up what it does love, and is mere appetite. "-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
"Will you still walk with me?’ ‘Would you walk with a bad angel?"-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
"I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit."-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
5. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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- historical
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
6. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
7. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
By: Keigo Higashino
4.43
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to th… read more
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"People who live with their head in the clouds deserve to hit the ground every once in a while."-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
"Believe me. No matter how bad things are today, they’ll be far better tomorrow. — Namiya General Store"-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
"Be a fighter. Give it everything you’ve got. Even a losing battle is worth fighting. Go out and make your mark."-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
"It would destroy the very meaning of a family unit if everyone with their separate ways over fleeting feelings of anger or impatience."-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
8. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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- fiction
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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
9. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- historical fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
10. Nothing Special
By: Nicole Flattery
3.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
11. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
12. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
13. People Collide
By: Isle McElroy
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more
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14. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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15. Very Cold People
By: Sarah Manguso
3.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more
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"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
16. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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17. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
By: Kikuko Tsumura
3.60
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more
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"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
18. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
19. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
20. And the Ocean Was Our Sky
By: Patrick Ness
3.62
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fight… read more
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"For there are devils in the deep, but worst are the ones we make."-Patrick Ness, And the Ocean Was Our Sky
"But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge."-Patrick Ness, And the Ocean Was Our Sky
"The devil always outnumbers his foes," he said. "Even if he is alone."-Patrick Ness, And the Ocean Was Our Sky
"Death is suddenly objectionable to you when the dead has a name you know?"-Patrick Ness, And the Ocean Was Our Sky
21. The World and All That It Holds
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more
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- historical fiction
22. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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23. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
24. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
By: Regan Penaluna
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential … read more
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25. Unlikely Animals
By: Annie Hartnett
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this… read more
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"You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be."-Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals
26. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
27. The Life of the Mind
By: Christine Smallwood
3.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction--"… read more
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28. Exalted
By: Anna Dorn
3.73
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the ou… read more
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29. Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
By: Douglas A. Martin
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles, this genre-be… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"He’d write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He’d have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to e…"-Douglas A. Martin, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
30. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- fiction
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
31. Madwoman
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more
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