Cyclorama
By: Adam Langer
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The deeply moving, propulsive story of ten teenagers brought together by a high school production o…
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1. The Latecomer
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.01
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
2. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
3. Vintage Contemporaries
By: Dan Kois
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New Yor… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
4. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
5. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
6. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
7. Hope
By: Andrew Ridker
3.67
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more
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- literary fiction
- jewish
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
8. Mobility
By: Lydia Kiesling
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
9. Mercury Pictures Presents
By: Anthony Marra
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
10. Search
By: Michelle Huneven
3.87
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
A sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes Dana… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
By: Kevin Wilson
3.69
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
12. Mouth to Mouth
By: Antoine Wilson
3.67
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
13. 2 A.M. in Little America
By: Ken Kalfus
3.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Sugar Street
By: Jonathan Dee
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Bad Animals
By: Sarah Braunstein
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation throu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Complicities
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Which Side Are You On
By: Ryan Lee Wong
3.60
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
18. 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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- literary fiction
- jewish
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
19. Up With the Sun
By: Thomas Mallon
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York C… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. My Volcano
By: John Elizabeth Stintzi
3.54
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock is spotted by a jogger growing from the Central Park Reservoi… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"His Farsi laden with a mat of nostalgia"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"And so here - after then, and after that - we are"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"In his little apartment, alone, Ash set his cocktail of alarms"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"On that page, they began to write a new book - a book without research. A book about a mountain. A volcano . Their volcano."-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
21. Cyclorama
By: Adam Langer
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The deeply moving, propulsive story of ten teenagers brought together by a high school production o… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- jewish
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- drama
