The Misconceiver
By: Lucy Ferriss
3.43
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
This fresh release of an epochal novel from the late 1990s unlocks the dystopic world of the United…
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1. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
By: Brad Watson
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this, his first collection of stories since his celebrated, award-winning Last Days of the Dog-M… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
2. Forever...
By: Judy Blume
3.63
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to… read more
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- fiction
"I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep."-Judy Blume, Forever...
"...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen."-Judy Blume, Forever...
"You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest."-Judy Blume, Forever...
"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."-Judy Blume, Forever...
3. The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.76
Format: None pages,
Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is back, this time investigating a gruesome World War II wa… read more
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- fiction
4. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
5. The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
By: Renée Nault
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
6. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
7. Bookish People
By: Susan Coll
2.88
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer… read more
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- fiction
8. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
By: Andy Borowitz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more
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"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
9. Finding Dorothy
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.18
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspi… read more
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- fiction
10. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- fiction
11. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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- fiction
12. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
13. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
14. The Couple in the Photo
By: Helen Cooper
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of The Downstairs Neighbor and The Other Guest comes a propulsive suspense novel th… read more
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- fiction
15. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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16. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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- fiction
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
17. The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.93
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN moved from less recent edition It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Gallowa… read more
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- fiction
"You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it."-Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
18. The Glow
By: Jessie Gaynor
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more
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- fiction
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow
19. Miracle Creek
By: Angie Kim
3.87
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
A literary courtroom thriller about an immigrant family and a young single mother accused of killin… read more
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- fiction
"That was the thing about lies: they demanded commitment. Once you lied, you had to stick to your story."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Having a special-needs child didn’t just change you; it transmuted you, transported you to a parallel world with an altered gravitational axis."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Good things and bad—every friendship and romance formed, every accident, every illness—resulted from the conspiracy of hundreds of little things, in and of themselves inconsequential."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Matt blinked - how long did that take? A tenth of a second? A hundredth? - then, where Henry's face had been, there was fire. Face, then blink, then fire. No, faster thant that. Face, blink, fire. Fa…"-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
20. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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- fiction
21. 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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- fiction
"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
22. The Oceanography of the Moon
By: Glendy Vanderah
4.09
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family … read more
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- fiction
23. A Place for Us
By: Fatima Farheen Mirza
4.17
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Ca… read more
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- fiction
"It is not that we thought our way was better. It was that we did not know another way."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"Where did they come from, her children? And how did they arrive already themselves, and unlike anyone else?"-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"It was a strange time in their lives: the children like paper boats they were releasing into the water and watching float away."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"Are you happy," he asked. "I am." she said. And then she twisted again the row of bangles on her wrist. "I'm content. My parents are happy."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
24. The Last Verse
By: Caroline Frost
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nashville, 1977: A broken heart. A terrible crime. A song the world would sing. When aspiring music… read more
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- fiction
25. One of Our Kind
By: Nicola Yoon
3.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more
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- fiction
26. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
By: Leanna Renee Hieber
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious… read more
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"The power of the name is the same across all people."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"The symbolic meaning is far more interesting than the literal meaning."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"Idealization is not reality; it is a dream, an expectation, and a projection that does not need a woman to be alive to still be beholden to its trappings."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"While it's easy to dismiss and belittle a living woman who dares to be vocally critical or angry, it is much harder to silence a ghost: She has remarkable staying power."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
27. Elsewhere
By: Alexis Schaitkin
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the ima… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
"Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one's own life always feels."-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere
"He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love."-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere
"I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women he…"-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere
28. Such a Pretty Girl
By: T. Greenwood
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author T. Greenwood explores the often-flickering line between woman and girl in this… read more
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- fiction
29. Marvelous
By: Molly Greeley
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
1547: Pedro Gonzales, a young boy living on the island of Tenerife, understands that he is differen… read more
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- fiction
30. This Girl's a Killer
By: Emma C. Wells
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Meet Cordelia Black. Cordelia loves exactly three things: her chosen family composed of her best fr… read more
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- fiction
31. The Misconceiver
By: Lucy Ferriss
3.43
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
This fresh release of an epochal novel from the late 1990s unlocks the dystopic world of the United… read more
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- dystopia
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