When in Vanuatu
By: Nicki Chen
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Diana quit her job and followed her husband to Manila, she believed the move would work for bo…
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1. Everything's Eventual
By: Stephen King
3.97
Format: 605 pages, Paperback
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more
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"Time belongs to the Tower."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"A broken spoon may become a fork."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
2. Lily and the Octopus
By: Steven Rowley
3.73
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life … read more
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"What’s wrong with Tuesdays?"-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"I have to be better about living in the not knowing."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"I always thought Peter Pan was death. An angel of death who came to collect children."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
3. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
By: Alice Hoffman
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things… read more
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"The only way to understand a river is to jump into it."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
"A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
"The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
"In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
4. The Round House
By: Louise Erdrich
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in th… read more
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5. Another Brooklyn
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her … read more
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6. What is Not Yours is Not Yours
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock element… read more
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7. Reading the Ceiling
By: None
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Ayodele has just turned eighteen and has decided, having now reached womanhood, that the time is ri… read more
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8. Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
By: None
4.30
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book R… read more
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9. How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
By: Anne Berest , Audrey Diwan , Caroline de Maigret , None
3.62
Format: None pages, None
From four stunning and accomplished French women--at last--a fresh and spirited take on what it rea… read more
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"Wear a black bra under your white blouse, like two notes on a sheet of music."-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
"Just because you only have one life doesn't mean you should be afraid of wasting it."-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
"Go to the theater, to museums, and to concerts as often as possible; it gives you a healthy glow."-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
"She did not try to make others happy; she selfishly delighted in the pleasure of giving pleasure."-Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
10. America's First Daughter
By: Stephanie Dray , Laura Kamoie
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources,… read more
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11. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
By: Steve Erwin , Immaculée Ilibagiza
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 19… read more
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12. Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian… read more
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"She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"Police are not your friend. Even the cordial ones. Yes, they are there to help people in danger just like you're taught in school, but in this country some people think the ones they protection from …"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving h…"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
13. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
14. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
15. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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16. Killing Commendatore
By: Haruki Murakami
3.91
Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing… read more
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"The morning is not my time. Darkness is my friend. A vacuum is my breath. I must be saying goodbye soon."-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
"It seems to me that reality itself has a screw loose somewhere. That's why I try to keep at least myself in line as much as possible."-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
"But the forecasters and media types were clever - they never used vague words like "maybe." No, they stuck with convenient terms for which no one could be held accountable, like "probability of preci…"-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
"There is a point is everybody's life where they need a major transformation. And when that time comes you have to grab it by the tail. Grab it hard, and never let go. There are some people who are ab…"-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
17. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more
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"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
18. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)
By: Marian Keyes
4.02
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more
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19. The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
3.96
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more
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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
20. A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
By: Laura Taylor Namey
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Love & Gelato meets Don’t Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl… read more
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"there? Emotion burns my throat."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
"It’s just too bloody hard. For now, let our time here be our moment."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
"yes. I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
"I know what it feels like to fall in love. But I’m not sure what falling out of love feels like."-Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
21. The Silver Ladies Do Lunch
By: Judy Leigh
4.04
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
When Lin, Josie and Minnie left Miss Hamilton’s class at Middleton Ferris County Primary School, si… read more
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22. Evvie Drake Starts Over
By: Linda Holmes
3.82
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, … read more
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"Oh, that's right, she thought. I remember having good days."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"Everything she said, he treated like it ended in a semicolon."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"Trying to buck yourself up is the tooth pliers of mental health."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"All she could think as she finally, finally kissed him was finally, finally."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
23. In the Shadow of the Mountain
By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the… read more
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"We protect us."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"The host always said: 'Nothing you do is small. Everything begins from there."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"Even thought I rarely believed it myself, whenever I spoke it aloud, the dream grew. No matter how absurd it sounded, how impossible it seemed, dreaming got me closer to executing."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"Even while recuperating, we have to keep active. If you don't move at all, you're more likely to get sick. Continuous motion is the best way to manipulate our bodies into believing that we can fully …"-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
24. The Taste of Sugar
By: Marisel Vera
3.89
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in … read more
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25. From the Jump
By: Lacie Waldon
3.68
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
A chronic yes-woman finally admits to what—and who—she really wants in this unforgettable and heart… read more
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26. Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me?
By: Jen Mann
3.95
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
A smart, personal, darkly funny examination of what it's like to be at the crossroads of a midlife … read more
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27. Off the Map (Beck Sisters, #3)
By: Trish Doller
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
On the road to love, you don't need a GPS... Carla Black’s life motto is “here for a good time, … read more
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28. Hollow Beasts (Jodi Luna #1)
By: Alisa Lynn Valdes
4.13
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club comes a wilderness thrill… read more
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29. The Only Game in Town
By: Lacie Waldon
3.55
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
One small town, one big prize, one handsome stranger... Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. … read more
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"She was built to be a part of a team. It was how she'd grown up, It had always been hr and her dad, unbreakable partners. Then she'd join forces with Liz, the two of them taking on adolescence togeth…"-Lacie Waldon, The Only Game in Town
30. São Tome: Journey to the Abyss--Portugal's Stolen Children
By: Paul D. Cohn
3.96
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1485, the Portuguese Crown and Catholic Church began to kidnap Jewish children, forcibly convert… read more
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31. When in Vanuatu
By: Nicki Chen
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Diana quit her job and followed her husband to Manila, she believed the move would work for bo… read more
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