The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction)
By: Leslie Kirk Campbell
4.33
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, …
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1. William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #4)
By: Ian Doescher
3.96
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
MAY THE VERSE BE WITH YOU! Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retellin… read more
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"Pray tell, let the wookie win."-Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #4)
"O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa"-Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #4)
"True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st. -Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi"-Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #4)
"Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small/Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? -Leia Organa"-Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #4)
2. The Devil's Code (Kidd & LuEllen, #3)
By: John Sandford
3.94
Format: 354 pages, Mass Market Paperback
“Crime fiction doesn’t have nearly enough droll master thieves like Kidd and his stunning partner i… read more
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3. Gold by Gemini (Lovejoy, #2)
By: Jonathan Gash
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most likable rogues in mystery history. The Bitish-Roman coins had been around for centu… read more
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4. The Swimmers
By: Julie Otsuka
3.67
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more
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"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
5. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
6. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
By: Gretchen Rubin
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more
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7. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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8. Under the Storm (Hallandssviten, #1)
By: Christoffer Carlsson
3.66
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A farmhouse mysteriously goes up in flames with someone trapped inside and a community is never the… read more
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9. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
10. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
11. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
12. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
13. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
14. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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- fiction
15. 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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"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
16. The Candy House
By: Jennifer Egan
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more
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"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
17. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
3.90
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more
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"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
18. A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
By: Katherine Howe
3.73
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one youn… read more
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19. The Family Chao
By: Lan Samantha Chang
3.35
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more
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"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
20. Defenestrate
By: Renee Branum
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE An exuberant, wild… read more
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21. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
3.98
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more
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"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
22. 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
23. Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill (Jesse Stone, #18)
By: Reed Farrel Coleman
4.25
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devast… read more
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24. American Fever
By: Dur e Aziz Amna
3.94
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice.”… read more
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"All these prelapsarian significances came later, though, because life is lived in one direction and understood in the other."-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever
"All I know is that the world keeps spinning, and only at the end of each night, when my head is on your shoulder, does it stop long enough for me to comprehend."-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever
25. You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
By: Maggie Shipstead
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times best-selling author Maggie Shipstead, an irresistible collection of short stori… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
26. Everywhere You Don't Belong
By: Gabriel Bump
3.69
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable pro… read more
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- fiction
"If there’s one thing wrong with people,"-Gabriel Bump, Everywhere You Don't Belong
27. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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28. Tahoe Moon (Owen McKenna #20)
By: Todd Borg
4.69
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
Young Girl Is Left At A Hotel Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna is heading to a meeting when he finds … read more
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29. The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction)
By: Leslie Kirk Campbell
4.33
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
30. Catastrophe: A Novella
By: Deirdre Danklin
4.29
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
At fourteen, two schoolgirls slit their palms with safety scissors and promised to be in each other… read more
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31. Wildflowers
By: Beverly Parayno
4.65
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Nominated and shortlisted for the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Awards. In these nine unf… read more
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