Letting in Air and Light
By: Teresa Tumminello Brader
4.57
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
From a double shotgun house in New Orleans comes a true story larger than life. Teresa Tumminello B…
Want to Read"I feel haunted by hidden objects and absent people."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"I feel haunted by hidden objects and absent people."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"... I was too young to realize that a physical absence can be felt."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"... I was too young to realize that a physical absence can be felt."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
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1. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
2. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
By: James Agee , Walker Evans
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
3. Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more
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4. The Lola Quartet
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace followi… read more
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- crime
5. The Burgess Boys
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the pub… read more
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6. Revolutionary Road
By: Richard Yates
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more
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7. A Summer Place
By: Sloan Wilson
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
First published in 1958 and then turned into a film of the same name in 1959 featuring Troy Donahue… read more
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8. The Member of the Wedding
By: Carson McCullers
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brot… read more
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10. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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- crime
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
11. The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)
By: Edna O'Brien
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they … read more
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12. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
By: Dani Shapiro
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, l… read more
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13. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
14. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
15. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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16. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
17. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
18. The Ghosts of Rose Hill
By: R.M. Romero
3.98
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Magic will burn you up. Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an a… read more
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"PS I know I can always count on your silence. It's my own I'm not used to."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"The kiss lasts for his lifetime and my unfolding one. It reaches lives we haven't lived yet, and all the ones we've forgotten."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"In a house full of children, there are always bangs, clatters, shrieks of delight and dismay. Just because the kids here are dead doesn't make them an exception."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"I lay a dress on the white sheets, and see the monster nod his approval. A girl who intends to run doesn't bring a wardrobe with her. (But a girl who intends to fight does.)"-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
19. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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20. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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21. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
22. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
23. 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
24. 2023 on Goodreads
By: Various
4.11
Format: None pages, None
Whether or not you've had time to write your own reviews, here's a chance to review your entire 202… read more
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25. Sunflowers
By: Keezy Young
4.45
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
An autobiographical comic about one person's experience living with bipolar I disorder. From mania … read more
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26. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more
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27. Child Craft
By: Amy Cipolla Barnes
4.93
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
The unmistakable voice of Amy Cipolla Barnes returns in this new hybrid prose collection. To enter … read more
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28. Letting in Air and Light
By: Teresa Tumminello Brader
4.57
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
From a double shotgun house in New Orleans comes a true story larger than life. Teresa Tumminello B… read more
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"I feel haunted by hidden objects and absent people."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"... I was too young to realize that a physical absence can be felt."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"... through her struggles, Helen must have acquied not only patience, but the serenity that accompanies it when it is real."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
"Already my memories seem fraudulent, yet they are true to the child I was. Memory is unreliable; it might as well be fiction."-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light
29. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
By: Emma Bolden
4.51
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
For readers of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and Porochista Khakpour’s Sick , this exquisitely w… read more
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30. 1974: A Personal History
By: Francine Prose
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close rela… read more
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31. Shamus Dust
By: Janet Roger
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot… read more
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