The Joy of Funerals
By: Alix Strauss
3.28
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A widow who lusts...a daughter who aches...a lover who obsesses...a shopaholic who hungers...a dare…
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1. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
2. Winter Storms (Winter, #3)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Instant National Bestseller Gather under the mistletoe for one last round of caroling with the Quin… read more
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3. A Hundred Summers
By: Beatriz Williams
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic o… read more
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4. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
5. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
By: Alison Goodman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as a… read more
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- fiction
"What makes you think he is trustworthy?’ ‘ He has a sense of humor,’ I said, and then added the final proof. ‘And he found my observations funny too."-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"If you need me, just yell,' he said. 'Ladies do not yell,' I replied over my shoulder. 'But renegades do.' I caught a glimpse of myself in one of the mirrors as I passed; my color was high and I had …"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"My brother pursed his lips. 'Love? Really, Augusta, this is an important decision. If you think love is essential to a good match it is no wonder you are still unmarried.' 'Duffy, that is unkind,' Ju…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"He took the offering and positioned it behind his head with a baleful look. 'If I recall, it is your fault I have lost a great deal of blood,' Undeniable, but then again, I had not started the encoun…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
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. Blank
By: Zibby Owens
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
8. The Celebrants
By: Steven Rowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
9. The Paris Novel
By: Ruth Reichl
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more
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"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
10. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
11. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
By: Laura Pearson
4.03
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husban… read more
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12. The Breakaway
By: Jennifer Weiner
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
13. The Only Purple House in Town (Fix-It Witches, #4)
By: Ann Aguirre
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Iris Collins is the messy one in her family. The "chaos bunny." Her sisters are all wildly successf… read more
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- fiction
14. Joan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more
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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
15. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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- fiction
16. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- fiction
17. Vacationland
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Louisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely wri… read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
18. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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- fiction
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
19. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
20. An Unwanted Inheritance
By: Imogen Clark
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Reluctantly Home comes a story of three siblings and a suitcase full… read more
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- fiction
21. In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation (Halifax Hellions, #1)
By: Alexandra Vasti
3.80
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
The Halifax Hellions are the most scandalous, outrageous, ungovernable ladies in London. From the d… read more
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- fiction
22. In Which Winnie Halifax Is Utterly Ruined (Halifax Hellions, #3)
By: Alexandra Vasti
4.14
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1811, Winifred Wallace told one tiny lie. To secure her future as an independent sheep farmer, s… read more
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23. In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint (Halifax Hellions, #2)
By: Alexandra Vasti
4.07
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
For seven years, Matilda Halifax and her twin have been the most scandalous ladies in London. But w… read more
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- fiction
24. Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol
By: Ruby Warrington
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Would life be better without alcohol? It’s the nagging question more and more of us are finding … read more
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25. The Secrets Between Us
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“ A powerful, urgent novel that wields issues of gender and class like a blade. . . . This interge… read more
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- fiction
"It isn’t the words we speak that make us who we are. Or even the deeds we do. It is the secrets buried in our hearts."-Thrity Umrigar, The Secrets Between Us
26. The Second Ending
By: Michelle Hoffman
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A former prodigy who refuses to believe her best years are behind her and a young virtuoso searchin… read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
27. Old Enough
By: Haley Jakobson
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more
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- fiction
28. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By: Kirsten Miller
4.19
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
29. The Cliffs
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more
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- fiction
30. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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31. The Joy of Funerals
By: Alix Strauss
3.28
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A widow who lusts...a daughter who aches...a lover who obsesses...a shopaholic who hungers...a dare… read more
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- short stories
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