The Magnetic Girl
By: Jessica Handler
3.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In rural North Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high i…
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1. It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars, #1)
By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4.01
Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
What if a woman who knows nothing about sports inherits a professional football team? The Windy Cit… read more
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- fiction
"Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense."-Susan Elizabeth Phillips, It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars, #1)
"I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)"-Susan Elizabeth Phillips, It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars, #1)
"she was afraid she might be turning into one of those cynical people who hug old bitterness like a treasured bone to be gnawed over forever."-Susan Elizabeth Phillips, It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars, #1)
"She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth wit…"-Susan Elizabeth Phillips, It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars, #1)
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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- novels
- fiction
3. The Unseen World
By: None
3.92
Format: 290 pages,
Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who direct… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
- fiction
- science fiction
4. Little Heaven
By: Nick Cutter
3.85
Format: None pages,
An all-new epic tale of terror and redemption set in the hinterlands of midcentury New Mexico from … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
5. Little Bee
By: Chris Cleave
4.53
Format: 194 pages,
From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the tenuous… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pre… read more
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- novels
- fiction
7. Faithless (Grant County, #5)
By: Karin Slaughter
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods-then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Lin… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
8. Prep
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well… read more
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- fiction
9. I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
By: Izzeldin Abuelaish
3.73
Format: None pages,
By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hateis Izzeldin Abuelais… read more
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10. The Dressmaker
By: Kate Alcott
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titaniccomes a vivid, romantic, a… read more
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11. Beyond Reach (Grant County, #6)
By: Karin Slaughter
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
Sara Linton--resident medical examiner/pediatrician in Grant County, Georgia, --has plenty of hards… read more
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12. The Mistake
By: K.L. Slater
4.02
Format: 982 pages,
You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything... … read more
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13. Cane River
By: Lalita Tademy
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York Timesbestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four gen… read more
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14. Indian Killer
By: Sherman Alexie
4.11
Format: 274 pages,
A gritty, smart thriller from a literary superstar A killer has Seattle on edge. The serial murdere… read more
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15. Little Eve
By: Catriona Ward
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more
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- mystery
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
16. Attack of the Black Rectangles
By: Amy Sarig King
4.21
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
17. Rules for Visiting
By: Jessica Francis Kane
3.73
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
"I'm aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Consider the word visit. It’s from the Old French visiter, which meant “to inspect, examine, or afflict."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Are we a family damaged beyond repair? I don't know. I do believe in the power of words and stories to make sense of things."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
18. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
19. Remote Control
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.85
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
The new book by Nebula and Hugo Award-winner, Nnedi Okorafor."She’s the adopted daughter of the Ang… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
20. Take What You Need
By: Idra Novey
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more
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- mystery
- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
21. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
22. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
23. Hour of the Witch
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.84
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
A young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"A small thing, yes, but the world was rich with small things that in truth were signs of great importance."-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
"We are mortal. Nothing that touches us or we touch here is forever. Even rocks are rubbed small by the river."-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
". . . in her heart she feared it was something more: it was a sign. Because, if one looked around carefully, wasn’t everything?"-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
"I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions."-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
24. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
By: Dolly Parton
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stori… read more
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- audiobook
"I wake up with new dreams everyday."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I got dreams so big they'd scare some people."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I just wanted to be different. I wanted to be seen."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose, with purpose."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
25. The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
3.57
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
26. The Electric Kingdom
By: David Arnold
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the sur… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"We're still here."-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom
"Is your mom dead?"-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom
"Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only twelve-year-old in the world."-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom
"But listening was about more than hearing; it was about when and where you put yourself in the story."-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom
27. Sin Eater
By: Megan Campisi
3.61
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"It's always women who eat sins, since it was Eve who first ate a sin: the Forbidden Fruit."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"With how you came into the world and what you've seen lately you should know, the more you live, the more the sinner and the saint can't be pulled apart. All of us just getting by."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"Don’t I know by now that folk see their sins in the way they choose? There’s always a reason as to why selfishness is not really selfish and crimes are honest and waiting safely by while somefolk els…"-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
28. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
29. Her Daughter's Mother
By: Daniela Petrova
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
She befriended the one woman she was never supposed to meet. Now she's the key suspect in her disap… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
30. The King at the Edge of the World
By: Arthur Phillips
3.55
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
"One of the best writers in America" (The Washington Post) delivers a mesmerizing new novel in whic… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
31. The Magnetic Girl
By: Jessica Handler
3.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In rural North Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high i… read more
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- audiobook
- female authors
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- womens
- novels
- science fiction
