The Summer Demands
By: Deborah Shapiro
2.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Taking place over a single summer in an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this quietly menacing …
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1. Bad Dreams and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.69
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
2. The Stars Are Fire
By: Anita Shreve
4.20
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Ha… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
3. The Ivy Chronicles
By: Karen Quinn
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she's been downsized from her platinum-card c… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
4. The Admissions
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.95
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perf… read more
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5. The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky
By: Jana Casale
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Maggie Shipstead and Emma Straub, an ambitious, timely, and timeless debut that celebra… read more
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6. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
7. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
By: Molly Roden Winter
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more
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"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
8. 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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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
9. Sisters
By: Daisy Johnson
3.48
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Settembre è la persona che avrei sempre voluto essere. Io sono una forma ritagliata dall'universo, trapunta di stelle che continuano a morire - e lei è la creatura che riempie il vuoto che io lascio …"-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
10. 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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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
11. Everyone But Myself
By: Julie Chavez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un… read more
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- adult
12. Afterlife
By: Julia Alvarez
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the T… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Stolen: A Memoir
By: Elizabeth Gilpin
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a rising soccer star,… read more
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14. Where the Wild Ladies Are
By: Aoko Matsuda
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, hu… read more
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- fiction
"He who speaks of love must do so with courage."-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"When they are truly into something, they are absolutely single-minded in their fixation. They give it all they have. They throw heaps of money at it, research it endlessly, and do whatever seems nece…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"How unfair society was! Male employees had to pretend to be capable of doing things they couldn't do, while female employees had to pretend to be incapable of doing things they actually could do. Ove…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"Previously she'd lacked confidence and was forever putting out feelers to the people around her to gauge what they were thinking, but these days she gave out an almost authoritative aura, as if to si…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
15. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- adult
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
16. The Swallows
By: Lisa Lutz
3.66
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences. What … read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Summer Stage
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A spirited summer page-turner following a family of actors grappling with fame, scandal, and ambiti… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
18. You Are Here
By: Karin Lin-Greenberg
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal the local … read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. The Farewell Tour
By: Stephanie Clifford
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise , a “shimmering” ( New York Times B… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
20. 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
- contemporary
"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
21. The Islanders
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.82
Format: 416 pages, ebook
J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read invo… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
22. She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
By: Mia Mercado
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK T… read more
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23. Supper Club
By: Lara Williams
3.46
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who mee… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
24. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Where You End and I Begin
By: Leah McLaren
3.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A daughter’s remarkable and unflinching exploration of the unconventionally intimate relationship s… read more
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26. Wait
By: Gabriella Burnham
3.36
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after th… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
27. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Same Bright Stars
By: Ethan Joella
3.87
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Faculty Lounge
By: Jennifer Mathieu
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
30. The Summer Demands
By: Deborah Shapiro
2.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Taking place over a single summer in an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this quietly menacing … read more
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- adult fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
31. The Book of Witching
By: C.J. Cooke
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and reve… read more
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- adult
- fiction
