Lemons in the Garden of Love
By: Ames Sheldon
3.60
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Seeking a topic for her doctoral dissertation in 1977, Cassie Lyman finds a trove of suffrage carto…
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1. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
By: Sandy Tolan
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal o… read more
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"Bashir walked toward a glass cabinet in the dining room. Dalia followed Bashir, and the two stood looking through the glass. "Look at the cabinet and tell me what you see," Bashir said. "Is this a te…"-Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
2. The Round House
By: Louise Erdrich
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in th… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
3. Another Brooklyn
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
4. The Flight Attendant
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.63
Format: 416 pages,
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airli… read more
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5. The Vacationers
By: Emma Straub
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the sur… read more
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6. The Dollhouse
By: Fiona Davis
4.00
Format: 139 pages,
Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous B… read more
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- historical fiction
7. Notes from a Small Island
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more
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8. You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
By: Phoebe Robinson , None
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stan… read more
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9. Modern Lovers
By: Emma Straub
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel a… read more
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10. Trajectory
By: Richard Russo
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates th… read more
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11. Inseparable
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
12. The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
By: Shauna Robinson
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Ban… read more
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13. Hang the Moon
By: Jeannette Walls
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more
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- historical fiction
14. Simply the Best (Chicago Stars, #10)
By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips returns with the next book in her Chi… read more
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"He was her kid, but she was flustered. When children were young, parents were in control, but when they grew up, the kids called the shots, and if she hovered, said the wrong thing, he might distance…"-Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Simply the Best (Chicago Stars, #10)
15. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
16. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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- historical fiction
"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
17. Happy-Go-Lucky
By: David Sedaris
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more
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18. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
By: David Sedaris
4.21
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice: T here’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s… read more
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"Sometimes things happen and I don’t know what to do with my face."-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
"Question: What’s the difference between a whore and a bitch? Answer: A whore will sleep with anybody. A bitch will sleep with anybody… but you."-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
"While each of us thought, separately, Amy brought up Fran Lebowitz. "Someone asked her what her favorite animal is and she answered, 'Steak.' Isn't that perfect?"-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
19. Chances Are...
By: Richard Russo
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
"The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school." " When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words"-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. It seemed that only policemen and social workers—people who wanted to take you away—announced their arrival in that way."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
20. The Lost Ticket
By: Freya Sampson
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Strangers aboard a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the h… read more
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"Hector looked unconvinced. “Does your job make you rich?"-Freya Sampson, The Lost Ticket
21. 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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- literary fiction
"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
22. Westering Women
By: Sandra Dallas
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the peri… read more
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- historical fiction
23. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more
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- literary fiction
24. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
By: Abbi Waxman
3.80
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a … read more
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"If you're not scared, you're not brave."-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
"Coming out of a book was always painful."-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
"Is book smart the only smart that counts?"-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
"Being with you is as good as being alone."-Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
25. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
26. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
By: Helen Simonson
3.96
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more
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27. Summer Reading
By: Jenn McKinlay
3.48
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making f… read more
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28. Blacktop Wasteland
By: S.A. Cosby
4.08
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North … read more
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"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland
29. A Woman of Intelligence
By: Karin Tanabe
3.59
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks l… read more
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- historical fiction
30. How to Age Disgracefully
By: Clare Pooley
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more
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"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully
"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully
31. Lemons in the Garden of Love
By: Ames Sheldon
3.60
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Seeking a topic for her doctoral dissertation in 1977, Cassie Lyman finds a trove of suffrage carto… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
