Oksana, Behave!
By: Maria Kuznetsova
3.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible debut that follows a Russian-American girl's bumpy path to adulthood as she longs f…
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1. The End We Start From
By: Megan Hunter
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a wom… read more
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- fiction
2. The Wild Things
By: Dave Eggers
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Wild Things -- based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritt… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Borrower
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with readin… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Dear Mr. You
By: Mary-Louise Parker
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An e… read more
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5. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
By: Julia Alvarez
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra,… read more
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6. I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
4.10
Format: 338 pages,
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more
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7. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
8. A Terrible Country
By: Keith Gessen
3.88
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty--the first novel in ten years from a fou… read more
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- russia
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Our grandmother lived in the center of Moscow. The rents there were almost as high as Manhattan's. On my PMOOC salary I would be able to rent approximately an armchair."-Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country
"You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other thing…"-Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country
9. 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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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
10. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
11. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
13. 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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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
14. A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
15. Interesting Facts about Space
By: Emily R. Austin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
16. 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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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Pizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I began to picture the world without me in it."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
18. Pete and Alice in Maine
By: Caitlin Shetterly
3.38
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
19. NSFW
By: Isabel Kaplan
3.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively readable―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
20. Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
21. Self Care
By: Leigh Stein
3.14
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Leaving New York was always a reminder of the millions of people who would never choose your life or your lifestyle, the one you fought so hard to have, to prove how special you were."-Leigh Stein, Self Care
22. Adult Drama: And Other Essays
By: Natalie Beach
3.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
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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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
24. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
25. Topics of Conversation
By: Miranda Popkey
2.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voic… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"It was his desperation I despised."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"Having a baby, in any case, is never ethical."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"I know how this sounds; I mean, now I know how it sounds."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"Good intentions, sure, but when have they ever been enough."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
26. 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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- contemporary
- novels
- 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
27. Tehrangeles
By: Porochista Khakpour
3.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
28. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
29. But How Are You, Really
By: Ella Dawson
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shoul… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Oksana, Behave!
By: Maria Kuznetsova
3.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible debut that follows a Russian-American girl's bumpy path to adulthood as she longs f… read more
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- russia
- ukraine
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- family
- novels
- adult
- international
- audiobook
31. Plays Well with Others
By: Sophie Brickman
3.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She’s a mother of three young children; her crypto-VC husban… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
