5 best-selling mystery books like Forget I Told You This by Hilary Zaid

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Forget I Told You This

By: Hilary Zaid

4.14

Format: 301 pages, Audiobook

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring a…

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1. The Flamethrowers

By: Rachel Kushner

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more

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2. QualityLand

By: Marc-Uwe Kling

4.38

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Willkommen in QualityLand! In der Zukunft lauft alles rund: Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind v… read more

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3. Goodbye, Vitamin

By: Rachel Khong

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her… read more

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4. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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  • adult
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5. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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6. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

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  • adult
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

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7. 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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  • 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

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8. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • adult
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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9. Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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10. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • lgbt
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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11. Brooklyn Crime Novel

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more

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  • mystery
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12. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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  • thriller
  • adult
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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13. Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...

By: Jac Jemc

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins K… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
"Loneliness is keenest when in the company of others, when comparisons suggest that everyone else is relating to and forming bonds with one another ... To make a connection requires risking rejection.…"

-Jac Jemc, Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...

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14. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
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15. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

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  • adult
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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16. Avalon

By: Nell Zink

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of… read more

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17. A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By: Jon Fosse

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

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18. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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19. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

By: Micaiah Johnson

4.15

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."

-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

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20. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

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21. The Guest Lecture

By: Martin Riker

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more

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22. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
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23. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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24. Users

By: Colin Winnette

2.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is … read more

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  • adult
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25. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

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  • adult
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26. 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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27. Women! In! Peril!

By: Jessie Ren Marshall

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this brash and unputdownable collection, award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall invites us… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
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28. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

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  • lgbt
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29. The Witchstone

By: Henry H. Neff

4.32

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable, high-stakes, laugh-out-loud funny novel, The Witchstone blends the merciless humo… read more

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  • adult
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30. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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  • adult
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31. Forget I Told You This

By: Hilary Zaid

4.14

Format: 301 pages, Audiobook

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring a… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • lgbt

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