Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin
By: Rosanna Hertz
3.63
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Random Families is about the unprecedented families that have grown up at the intersection of new r…
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. Beautiful Ruins
By: Jess Walter
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper… read more
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3. One Second After (After, #1)
By: William R. Forstchen
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbest-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too t… read more
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4. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
By: Chrysta Bilton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more
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- nonfiction
5. 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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"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
6. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
By: Jessi Klein
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
7. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- nonfiction
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
8. 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
9. Overkill
By: Sandra Brown
3.98
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn’t seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for some tim… read more
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10. When You Are Mine
By: Michael Robotham
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this page-turning psychological thriller a young female police officer faces danger on all fron… read more
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11. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
12. The Turnout
By: Megan Abbott
3.11
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers si… read more
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"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always c…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"The entire time Tchaikovsky was composing 'The Nutcracker,' Madame Sylvie told Dara once, he was mourning his beloved sister Sasha. He reanimated her through Clara. It explained the strange heaviness…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"The woman's body twitched suddenly, as if remembering something, and she covered her mouth with a stiff mitten. Dara knew what it was. She'd felt it a dozen times that day already. The body rememberi…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
13. Intimacies
By: Katie Kitamura
3.65
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more
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"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
14. Marrying the Ketchups
By: Jennifer Close
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more
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"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups
15. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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- queer
"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
16. Mouth to Mouth
By: Antoine Wilson
3.67
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more
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"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
17. The Startup Wife
By: Tahmima Anam
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Newlyweds Asha and Cyrus build an app that replaces religious rituals and soon find themselves runn… read more
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18. The Beauty of Living Twice
By: Sharon Stone
3.70
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost … read more
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- nonfiction
"No one can ever make your dream perfect but you."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"If only we could know our parents when we are children."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"Thus, the benefit of travel and open-mindedness: one can find one's own tribe."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
19. The Old Place
By: Bobby Finger
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens t… read more
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- queer
20. Going Solo: My choice to become a single mother using a donor
By: Genevieve Roberts
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Going Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
21. Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin
By: Rosanna Hertz
3.63
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Random Families is about the unprecedented families that have grown up at the intersection of new r… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- science
- queer
