Kept Animals
By: Kate Milliken
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A bold, riveting debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a hor…
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1. The Piano Teacher
By: Janice Y.K. Lee
3.80
Format: 245 pages,
Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and '50s. It's a city… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
2. American Wife
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end … read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
By: Caroline Myss
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author and medical intuitive Caroline Myss has found that when people do… read more
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4. The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1)
By: Jacquelyn Mitchard
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a natio… read more
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5. The Flick
By: Annie Baker
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more
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6. Girls Made of Snow and Glass
By: Melissa Bashardoust
4.01
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
Frozenmeets The Bloody Chamberin this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At s… read more
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7. They're Going to Love You
By: Meg Howrey
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
8. We Play Ourselves
By: Jen Silverman
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast to start over, where she is dra… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And all the parts of me that are ugly and lonely and horrible and sad will be the parts of me that other people hold close to themselves and fine a secret resonance with, and about which they say to …"-Jen Silverman, We Play Ourselves
9. Shanghai
By: Joseph Kanon
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
11. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
13. Ghosts of Harvard
By: Francesca Serritella
3.70
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts heari… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The universe will always have its secrets."-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard
"Stars don't project the future, they reflect the past."-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard
"Adventure is only possible if you don't spoil the ending."-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard
"You can see more in total darkness than you ever could in light."-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard
14. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By: Caleb Carr
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more
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- audiobook
- animals
- contemporary
15. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
By: Florence Williams
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects t… read more
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- audiobook
"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take s…"-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
"These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with processing sensory and motor information. …"-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
16. The Lightness
By: Emily Temple
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Oh, but how could I believe in anything but this? It was right in front of me, and I could touch it."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
"Now I know that the American Dream can leave you in a coma or even kill you. But of course, we knew that back then too. It wouldn’t have been any fun otherwise."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
17. Body Grammar
By: Jules Ohman
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling … read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
18. Compound Fracture
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture
19. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
20. Kept Animals
By: Kate Milliken
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A bold, riveting debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a hor… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- coming of age
- animals
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
21. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
By: Charlotte Shane
3.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more
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