Painfully Ordinary (Lumina Saga #1)
By: Stephanie Amox
3.82
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
Two teenager's lives become not so ordinary... Caitlin and Leah are content with the slow and stead…
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1. The Art Forger
By: B.A. Shapiro
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabell… read more
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2. Sunburn
By: Laura Lippman
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspens… read more
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3. The October Country
By: Ray Bradbury
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhous… read more
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4. Episode Thirteen
By: Craig DiLouie
3.53
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more
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- fantasy
- paranormal
5. The Kaiju Preservation Society
By: John Scalzi
3.99
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more
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- fantasy
"I lift things."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"So we’re the monster police, too?"-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
6. The Girls I've Been
By: Tess Sharpe
4.06
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A slick, twisty YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank he… read more
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- romance
- young adult
"I hate the whole “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger"-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been
"Samantha has no needs or wants. She exists to serve someone else's."-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been
"there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead."-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been
"You know, you hit enough girls, eventually you'll find one who hits back."-Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been
7. Felix Ever After
By: Kacen Callender
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a … read more
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- romance
- young adult
"It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
8. The Book Eaters
By: Sunyi Dean
3.64
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain al… read more
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- fantasy
"None of us are truly good,"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"How did one give shape to absence? Fill a black hole with light?"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"Love has no cost for our children. Living or dead, here or gone."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"I am not those people and I’m also not me. I can’t ever be me, I’m too full of other lives."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
9. One Two Three
By: Laurie Frankel
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the… read more
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- romance
- young adult
"You can only chase your own demons, you know." Strange advice from a pastor. "You can't chase your mother's."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"As I have said—and as should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"We don’t need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don’t get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant…"-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"Mrs. Lasserstein passes out copies of Lord of the Flies and says this will be our fall book, but a whole season seems too long because Lord of the Flies is only 208 pages, and I have already read it,…"-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
10. Pucking Wild (Jacksonville Rays, #2)
By: Emily Rath
4.20
Format: 603 pages, Kindle Edition
Tess Owens is a confident, 33-year-old plus-sized divorcee daring to start her life over in a new j… read more
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- romance
11. The End of Men
By: Christina Sweeney-Baird
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unfo… read more
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- fantasy
"No one handed me any of this. I built this weird, challenging, rewarding life in London for myself. Why not me?"-Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men
12. Thistlefoot
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.96
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more
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- fantasy
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
13. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.57
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more
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- fantasy
"We all have a animal double, Englishman."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
14. The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding
By: Lydia Kang
3.71
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hid… read more
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- romance
15. Cult Classic
By: Sloane Crosley
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully cra… read more
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- romance
- fantasy
"You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French."-Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic
16. You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince (Boy Meets Boy, #2)
By: Timothy Janovsky
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An "effervescent" (Rachel Lynn Solomon) stand-alone Christmas LGBTQIA+ New Adult RomCom, perfect fo… read more
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- romance
"I sigh, realizing that the boy I'm talking about is a different iteration of myself from a separate past life, removed from who I am here. All the previous me's have been chunked off, lopped into lit…"-Timothy Janovsky, You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince (Boy Meets Boy, #2)
17. Scattered Showers
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.95
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels t… read more
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- romance
- fantasy
- young adult
"It had felt so good to cry. Like her outsides matched her insides."-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers
"You shouldn't focus on the bad things...Because you draw them toward you. Happiness is about focusing on good things and drawing those things toward you."-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers
"If you're a careful as you're supposed to be, you seem neurotic. I feel neurotic. Now. And I never used to be. I'm the sort of person who'd share an ice cream cone with a dog...But now I wipe down my…"-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers
"We think of ourselves - of everything - as having an ideal state. Like, we mature to an ideal state, and then we decay. What if the middle isn't the ideal? What if every moment along the curve is ide…"-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers
18. House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
By: Erin A. Craig
3.91
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, … read more
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- romance
- fantasy
- young adult
"You can’t change traditions just because you don’t like them."-Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
"Oh my darling Annaleigh, remember when you let the turtles go? Some things can't be kept." He cupped my cheek, and my tears trickled down his fingers. "Be brave. Be strong. You'll always have my whol…"-Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
"Flushed with starlight and moonlight drowned, All the dreamers are castle-bound. At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind, Revealing fantasies soft or unkind. Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest day…"-Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
19. A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery, #1)
By: Abby Collette
3.23
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop--with a fabulous cast o… read more
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20. What Wild Women Do
By: Karma Brown
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Two women's lives unexpectedly intertwine in this intriguing dual timeline novel from the #1 intern… read more
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21. The Drowned Woods
By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
3.87
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Me… read more
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- romance
- fantasy
- young adult
22. To Love Jason Thorn
By: Ella Maise
3.77
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
Jason Thorn… My brother’s childhood friend. Oh, how stupidly in love with that boy I was. He was t… read more
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"I already fell—a little too hard if you ask me. Now it’s your turn."-Ella Maise, To Love Jason Thorn
"In front of everyone, her lips became mine and I took her breath for myself, because I needed it more than she did."-Ella Maise, To Love Jason Thorn
"This book is for everyone who once loved a boy and felt those butterflies overwhelm them in the best possible way. And, well, if the boy didn’t love you back, shame on him! What a jerk."-Ella Maise, To Love Jason Thorn
23. Kittentits
By: Holly Wilson
3.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more
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- fantasy
24. Memorial
By: Bryan Washington
3.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and th… read more
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- romance
"How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?"-Bryan Washington, Memorial
"Efteråt är vi bara två killar i en bil som håller på med någon sorts omöjlig yoga."-Bryan Washington, Memorial
"So, the next morning, despite everything, I’m at his door. My father’s door. And then I am knocking. Waiting. It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions o…"-Bryan Washington, Memorial
25. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
By: Mary Laura Philpott
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more
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26. Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)
By: Natasha Bowen
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save. Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves the… read more
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- romance
- fantasy
- young adult
"Do not be ashamed of who you are."-Natasha Bowen, Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)
"When you pull back the skin of the sea, you never know what you will find."-Natasha Bowen, Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)
"Simidele. Listen to me. I know you will make things right. What is done is done. We cannot change the past, only learn from it. What happens next is up to you."-Natasha Bowen, Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)
27. When Women Were Dragons
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.85
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transfo… read more
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- fantasy
"The dragons did not go away."-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our l…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to contr…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of th…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
28. Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
By: Saraciea J. Fennell
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx co… read more
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- young adult
29. The Map of Salt and Stars
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
3.92
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more
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- fantasy
"Stories are powerful,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"I don’t understand why we were shelled."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"Every place you go becomes a part of you. But none more so than home."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
30. Painfully Ordinary (Lumina Saga #1)
By: Stephanie Amox
3.82
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
Two teenager's lives become not so ordinary... Caitlin and Leah are content with the slow and stead… read more
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- romance
- fantasy
- young adult
- paranormal
