They Dream in Gold
By: Mai Sennaar
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A “luminous” (Tara Conklin) literary debut following two dreamers, one intercultural family, and th…
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By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
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"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
2. Acts of Forgiveness
By: Maura Cheeks
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more
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"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
3. Women and Children First
By: Alina Grabowski
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more
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4. Swift River
By: Essie J. Chambers
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more
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"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River
5. Long After We Are Gone
By: Terah Shelton Harris
3.88
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more
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6. 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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7. The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
4.50
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more
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"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
8. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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9. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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10. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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11. The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
By: Shauna Robinson
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks and Must Love Books comes a heartf… read more
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12. 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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13. Like Mother, Like Mother
By: Susan Rieger
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secr… read more
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14. A Thousand Times Before
By: Asha Thanki
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry t… read more
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15. There's Nothing Wrong with Her
By: Kate Weinberg
3.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A crackling, tender, and perfectly off-kilter novel about love, madness, illness, and recovery.Vita… read more
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16. Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3)
By: Attica Locke
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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17. Our Evenings
By: Alan Hollinghurst
4.28
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more
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18. They Dream in Gold
By: Mai Sennaar
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A “luminous” (Tara Conklin) literary debut following two dreamers, one intercultural family, and th… read more
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19. The Most Wonderful Time
By: Jayne Allen
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The author of the beloved, bestselling Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy returns with an intri… read more
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20. Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
By: Glory Edim
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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21. Untethered
By: Angela Jackson-Brown
4.47
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . . In the small college town of Troy, … read more
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