Strangers and Cousins
By: Leah Hager Cohen
3.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic w…
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1. The Gunners
By: Rebecca Kauffman
3.68
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Achieving bold emotional complexity, The Gunners explores just how much one moment, one decision, o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"That makes my vagina contract and disappear inside itself. Sam said, Mine too."-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
"Alice said, “I think we were all sort of in love with each other at different times. Isn’t that just what happens when friends grow up together?"-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
"When they could not reach any single conclusion as to what might have caused Sally to turn on them, they began to turn on one another, with accusations and assumptions, resentment and suspicion. The …"-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
"As children, The Gunners could not have imagined that by the time they were sixteen years old, one of them would turn her back on the others, and the group would be so fractured by the loss, the sudd…"-Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners
2. The Adults
By: Alison Espach
3.51
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Romanzo di formazione insolito e ironico, Questi adulti ci racconta in prima persona la storia di E… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"There is nothing better than this,"-Alison Espach, The Adults
"Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?"-Alison Espach, The Adults
"All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar."-Alison Espach, The Adults
"Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same."-Alison Espach, The Adults
3. Clade
By: James Bradley
3.62
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sy… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
4. Little Faith
By: Nickolas Butler
3.88
Format: 336 pages, ebook
In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"How can it all be random, chance, a beautiful cosmic accident? How?"-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
"Part of being a parent is loving your child more than they'll ever love you," he said."-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
"Lyle, part of being a Christian - hell, part of being a good person - is caring about everyone, all human life. And I love you, friend, I do. But there are times when I think you feel that a person f…"-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
"I never understood organized religion," Otis said at length. "Be a good person. Don't hurt other folks. Don't cheat. Don't be greedy. That seems pretty straightforward to me. I don't need a goddamn g…"-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
5. Chi dice e chi tace
By: Chiara Valerio
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
6. Dalla stessa parte mi troverai
By: Valentina Mira
4.01
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Questa storia comincia una sera d’inverno, il 7 gennaio 1978. Davanti a una sede del Movimento soci… read more
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7. La vita è breve, eccetera
By: Veronica Raimo
3.11
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Undici racconti irriverenti, comici e amari insieme, in cui le relazioni sono piene di spigoli, e l… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
8. Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
By: Michela Murgia
3.58
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
S'innamorano di una sagoma di cartone o di un pretoriano in miniatura, odiano i bambini pur portand… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Scegliere è sempre invecchiare, ma è solo a 19 anni che il mondo ti accorda ancora l'indulgenza di chiamarla crescita."-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"Un uomo smette di essere bambino solo quando diventa padre, altrimenti passa dalla madre alla moglie senza troppe differenze."-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"La verità è semplice e forse non ti piace, ma è quella: la maggior parte delle persone non fa figli proprio per non sopportare neanche dai suoi [figli] quello che tu stai chiedendo di tollerare dal t…"-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"Secondo te mi sento così inutile perché non ho figli da guardar crescere?" mi ha chiesto mentre facevamo i piatti. "Ma come non ne hai, hai sposato un bambinone che non se ne andrà mai di casa, non p…"-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
9. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
10. La vita intima
By: Niccolò Ammaniti
3.46
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
Maria Cristina Palma ha una vita all'apparenza perfetta, è bella, ricca, famosa, il mondo gira into… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
11. The Grammarians
By: Cathleen Schine
3.58
Format: 8 pages, Audio CD
"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"The word is "love," the story tells her, but she says No, that is nonsense. "Love" is a four-letter word, the story says, but Sally says, No, you are missing the point. There is no word, just words, …"-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
"His point is, informal English is not wrong, and some of it stems from models older than 'standard' English, and he always puts 'standard' in quotes because there is no standard English, language kee…"-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
"There were not words for what she felt, the depth of the emptiness, the breadth of the emptiness, the emptiness of the emptiness. Words could only cloak what she felt. Words were supposed to illumina…"-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
12. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- audiobook
"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
13. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
14. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
15. La vita di chi resta
By: Matteo B. Bianchi
4.04
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
"Quando torni io non ci sarò già più." Sono le ultime parole di S. a Matteo, pronunciate al telefon… read more
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- contemporary
- audiobook
- fiction
- lgbt
"Il suicidio è ancora un grande tabù. E invece dobbiamo parlarne, lo dobbiamo alle vittime: non solo a chi si è tolto la vita, ma anche a chi è rimasto"-Matteo B. Bianchi, La vita di chi resta
"Dai ricordi io sono invaso, inzuppato dentro. Potrei trasferirmi in Cina, li avrei comunque addosso. Oceani e continenti nel mezzo non sarebbero di alcuna utilità. Io sono i miei ricordi."-Matteo B. Bianchi, La vita di chi resta
16. Hope
By: Andrew Ridker
3.67
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more
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- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
17. 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
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- 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
18. Homestead
By: Melinda Moustakis
3.53
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately d… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Chorus
By: Rebecca Kauffman
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Our little hearts can carry only so much in one lifetime, after all."-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus
"And he knew that this beautiful world had a forked tongue. And he knew that everything he thought and felt and feared was real."-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus
20. To Night Owl from Dogfish
By: Holly Goldberg Sloan
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in N… read more
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- lgbt
- family
- contemporary
- fiction
- audiobook
"Here's what we have seen: The way one story ends but then starts up again. The way families are made from people who want to be together more than they want to be apart. The way no one can tell you w…"-Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish
21. Mostly Dead Things
By: Kristen Arnett
3.38
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
22. Dark Horses
By: Susan Mihalic
3.97
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl’s fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her a… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
23. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- novels
- 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
24. The Orchard
By: David Hopen
3.67
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
25. L'amica della sposa
By: Nicolas Barreau
3.50
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Presentarsi alla festa sbagliata non sempre è una sventura.In una piovosa giornata primaverile, Jea… read more
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26. Adequate Yearly Progress
By: Roxanna Elden
3.58
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Each new school year brings familiar challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in on… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
27. The House on Fripp Island
By: Rebecca Kauffman
3.34
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families—one rich, one not—vacation toge… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. Fire Season
By: Leyna Krow
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists--a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extrao… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
29. Days of Distraction
By: Alexandra Chang
3.58
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender portrait of a young woman — finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she kn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"What greater loneliness and longing is there than living with someone you once knew so well, and who is now hardly around?"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from t…"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"❝It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"And from those brief moments I was living with a certainty that I was exactly where I should be, where everything is deeply quiet and deeply alive. I thought about the many aspects in this life that …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
30. Strangers and Cousins
By: Leah Hager Cohen
3.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic w… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- american
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- family
- novels
- audiobook
31. The Close-Up
By: Pip Drysdale
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A struggling author discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
