The Optimistic Decade
By: Heather Abel
3.30
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining and assured debut novel about a utopian summer camp and its charismatic leader as…
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1. The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)
By: Steve Berry
3.84
Format: 511 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"1. "...All the complicated things in life can be settled over a cup of coffee. A person will tell more of their private life after one good cup of coffee, than after a magnum of Champagne or a quarte…"-Steve Berry, The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)
2. First Frost (Waverley Family, #2)
By: Sarah Addison Allen
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spellscomes a story of the Waverley family, in… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
3. Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more
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4. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.20
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
5. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
By: Madeleine Thien
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, wh… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Semi-Finalist in the Science & Technology category in the Choice Awards. Foreword by Steven Pinker,… read more
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7. High Tide in Tucson
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver explores her trademark th… read more
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8. Butterflies in November
By: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir , Brian FitzGibbon
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
After a day of being dumped - twice - and accidentally killing a goose, a young woman yearns for a … read more
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9. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
By: Bianca Marais
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more
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10. Lexicon
By: Max Barry
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, ge… read more
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11. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- book club
"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
12. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
13. Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers
By: Sara Ackerman
3.90
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
When her husband mysteriously disappears and rumors swirl about his loyalties, a mother must rely o… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
14. The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
By: Rhett McLaughlin
3.94
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creator… read more
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- fiction
15. The Torqued Man
By: Peter Mann
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"A damn good read."--Alan Furst A brilliant debut novel, at once teasing literary thriller and a d… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. Golden Child
By: Claire Adam
3.45
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just tryin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
17. Never Ask Me
By: Jeff Abbott
3.62
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Each of us has a question we dread. When the simple community of Lakehaven is shaken by a violent c… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
18. Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story #1)
By: Rosalie Knecht
3.50
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"On a Tuesday I came home from school to an empty house, watched the evening news, and then took Equanil caplets lifted from my mother."-Rosalie Knecht, Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story #1)
19. An Ambush of Widows
By: Jeff Abbott
3.86
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott’s latest novel of riveting psychological suspens… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
20. The Three Beths
By: Jeff Abbott
3.56
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
My mom would never leave me. This has been Mariah Dunning's motto. Her compass. Her belief. So w… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Optimistic Decade
By: Heather Abel
3.30
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining and assured debut novel about a utopian summer camp and its charismatic leader as… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Heather Abel's The Optimistic Decade book and Heather Abel's The Optimistic Decade
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
"One had to at all times remain free of the delusion that anybody was who you believed them to be."-Heather Abel, The Optimistic Decade
