The Weight of Dreams
By: Jonis Agee
3.64
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At seventeen, Ty Bonte's life revolves around the seasons and the work to be done on his father's N…
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1. The Reader
By: Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway
3.78
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing nov… read more
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"There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
"I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers."-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
"But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her."-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
2. True Colors
By: Kristin Hannah
4.05
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
True Colors is New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah's most provocative, compelling, and… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
4. A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1)
By: Dave Pelzer
3.59
Format: 370 pages,
Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] This book chronicles the unforgettable ac… read more
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5. Serena
By: Ron Rash
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash… read more
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- fiction
6. Go Set a Watchman
By: Harper Lee
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning… read more
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7. Prodigal Summer
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more
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8. Sarah's Key
By: Tatiana de Rosnay
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation an… read more
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9. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
10. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
11. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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12. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
13. Within Arm's Reach
By: Ann Napolitano
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more
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- contemporary
14. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
15. Good Night, Irene
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.14
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more
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"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene
16. Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.27
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful preq… read more
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17. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
By: Kim Michele Richardson
4.22
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-1492671527 can be found here. In 1936, tucked deep into … read more
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"What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing."-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
"Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain't much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There's the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, …"-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
"There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a …"-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
18. Our Woman in Moscow
By: Beatriz Williams
4.06
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly hum… read more
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"Ruth, I spent most of my life just trying to be safe. Trying to hide from what scared me. Letting other people control what happened to me. Then I realized the idea of safety itself is just a delusio…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"...humans are corrupt. We are all of us selfish, ignorant beasts, loyal only to ourselves and our own kind, interested only in getting a leg up on others, whether it's money or status or moral virtue…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"A man had appeared out of nowhere—a thick-shouldered, square-jawed, cleft-chinned all- American of a type Iris hadn’t seen in years. He showed her some friendly white teeth and continued in a slow co…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"[In marriage you] go through stages, like acts in a play. Act One, you fall in love, and the birds twitter and the bees go buzz, and you'll never love somebody else as long as you both shall live, am…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
19. A Private Cathedral (Dave Robicheaux, #23)
By: James Lee Burke
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Detective Dave Robicheaux is caught in the crossfire of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest gangland f… read more
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"May the road rise up to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face The rains fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again May God hold you in the palm of…"-James Lee Burke, A Private Cathedral (Dave Robicheaux, #23)
20. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.25
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more
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"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
21. The Weight of Dreams
By: Jonis Agee
3.64
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At seventeen, Ty Bonte's life revolves around the seasons and the work to be done on his father's N… read more
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