Peculiar Savage Beauty
By: Jessica McCann
4.53
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
"... gripping, atmospheric novel. McCann'sDust Bowl saga meshes a seminal event in American history…
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1. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
By: Matthew J. Sullivan
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When a bookshop patron commits suicide, it's his favorite store clerk who must unravel the puzzle h… read more
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2. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Underground Library
By: Jennifer Ryan
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Horse
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
6. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Echo of Old Books
By: Barbara Davis
4.28
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old pap… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Half Moon
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Jane Austen Society
By: Natalie Jenner
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel! Just after the S… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Saved by Jane Austen"-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"But one can always read Austen."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"You read too much. You read her to much."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"Reading, she now understood, had been her own choice of rebellion."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
10. The Candid Life of Meena Dave
By: Namrata Patel
4.12
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, famil… read more
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- fiction
11. Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
By: Marc Brackett
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permissio… read more
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12. So Long, Chester Wheeler
By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Unlikely road trip companions form an unexpected bond in an uplifting novel about the past—lost and… read more
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- fiction
13. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
14. Damnation Spring
By: Ash Davidson
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
15. The Light Pirate
By: Lily Brooks-Dalton
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more
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- fiction
"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate
"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate
"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate
16. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- fiction
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
17. Seven Steeples
By: Sara Baume
3.53
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more
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- fiction
"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples
18. Jackie
By: Dawn Tripp
4.34
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"not only because of the pleasure it will bring, but because the power of ideas, and the ability to express them, is the greatest power we have."-Dawn Tripp, Jackie
19. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories
By: Tara Lynn Masih
4.37
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
2022 Florida Book Award Winner In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
20. Peculiar Savage Beauty
By: Jessica McCann
4.53
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
"... gripping, atmospheric novel. McCann'sDust Bowl saga meshes a seminal event in American history… read more
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- fiction
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