The Vexations
By: Caitlin Horrocks
3.79
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This "enthralling" debut novel and Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year circles the life of…
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1. 300 Days of Sun
By: Deborah Lawrenson
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruinswith the intriguing historical backstory o… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
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3. I, Coriander
By: Sally Gardner
3.50
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
In this exceptionally well-crafted tale, Coriander tells the story of her childhood in seventeenth-… read more
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4. Back When We Were Grownups
By: Anne Tyler
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The latest #1 New York Times bestseller by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Accidental Tour… read more
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5. Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.00
Format: 112 pages,
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romanti… read more
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6. A Patchwork Planet
By: Anne Tyler
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
For the first time in mass market paperback, this novel introduces 30-year-old misfit Barnaby Gaitl… read more
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7. Fin & Lady
By: Cathleen Schine
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been … read more
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8. Death Going Down
By: María Angélica Bosco , Lucy Greaves
3.51
Format: 383 pages,
In the early hours of the morning, a woman is found in the elevator of a plush apartment block on S… read more
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9. Crossings
By: Alex Landragin
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed t… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"As long as I have a glimpse of sky, I can tolerate almost any hardship."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
"Here was a man who seemed to take amusement in the messiness of life--as close to a definition of happiness as I know."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
10. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- historical
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
11. The Adult
By: Bronwyn Fischer
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance. In the wet grass… read more
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- adult
- fiction
12. Finding Margaret Fuller
By: Allison Pataki
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
13. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
By: James Hannaham
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Time s), a trans woman reenters life on the out… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
14. Madam
By: Phoebe Wynne
3.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A darkly feminist, modern gothic tale pitched against a haunting backdrop, and populated by an elec… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. How Can I Help You
By: Laura Sims
3.42
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. N… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
16. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more
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- fiction
17. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- adult
- fiction
"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
18. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
By: Naomi Hirahara
3.63
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Search
By: Michelle Huneven
3.87
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
A sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes Dana… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
20. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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21. Tin Camp Road
By: Ellen Airgood
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which … read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
22. The Unbreakables
By: Lisa Barr
3.72
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses,… read more
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- adult fiction
- france
- fiction
23. Painting Time
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female pai… read more
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- novels
- france
- fiction
24. An Astronomer in Love
By: Antoine Laurain
4.17
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Red Notebook comes the enchanting story of two men, 250 years a… read more
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- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. Here in the Real World
By: Sara Pennypacker
4.07
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Ware can’t wait to spend summer “off in his own world”—dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and g… read more
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- fiction
"So stop trying to keep bad stuff from me and start teaching me how to fix it."-Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World
"Because you’re right. Bad stuff happens. But the real world is also all the things we do about the bad stuff. We’re the real world, too."-Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World
26. Touch
By: Olaf Olafsson
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man's search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He used to say that breakfast resembles the first line of a haiku, it shows the way. Lunch is the second line and carries the momentum. The third line, then, is dinner, as it brings everything to a c…"-Olaf Olafsson, Touch
27. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
28. The Snakes
By: Sadie Jones
3.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
'I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins,’ she said. She didn’t feel afraid standing in the d… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The night they decided to leave London Bea had a dream."-Sadie Jones, The Snakes
29. The Vexations
By: Caitlin Horrocks
3.79
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This "enthralling" debut novel and Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year circles the life of… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
30. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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- adult
- fiction
