Cormorant Lake
By: Faith Merino
3.39
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
On a cold November night, Evelyn Van Pelt steals her roommate’s two underfed and neglected little g…
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1. Blonde
By: Joyce Carol Oates , Claude Seban
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spir… read more
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- literary fiction
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2. The Shadow Land
By: Elizabeth Kostova
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling author of The Historiancomes an engrossing novel that spans the past and th… read more
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3. Anything You Do Say
By: Gillian McAllister
3.91
Format: None pages,
Joanna is an avoider. So far she has spent her adult life hiding bank statements and changing caree… read more
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4. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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5. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
6. Alice Isn't Dead
By: Joseph Fink
3.62
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a tru… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"The only way to be brave is to first be afraid."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"Inside she would be a vessel of fluids and mourning."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"The stories of old women are the quiet, overlooked fabric of history."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
7. The Days I Loved You Most
By: Amy Neff
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The Days I Loved You Most is a heart-wrenching, life-affirming … read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
9. When We Found Home
By: Susan Mallery
4.05
Format: 449 pages, ebook
"Heartwarming...this book is sweet and will appeal to readers who enjoy the intricacies of family d… read more
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"If you're not happy, it's all on you. If you want to find your way, be your own compass."-Susan Mallery, When We Found Home
10. Wrong Alibi (Murder in Alaska, #1)
By: Christina Dodd
3.71
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
WRONG JOBEighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his … read more
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11. The Book of Love
By: Kelly Link
3.50
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more
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- adult
- magical realism
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12. Real Life
By: Brandon Taylor
3.80
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
13. Sleeping Giants
By: Rene Denfeld
4.03
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, a compelling and poignant story … read more
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14. Nightwatching
By: Tracy Sierra
3.86
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The Fallon Spring Reads Book Club Pick A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life an… read more
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15. What's Done in Darkness
By: Laura McHugh
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Abducted as a teenager, a woman must now confront her past and untangle the truth of what really ha… read more
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16. Shiner
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one you… read more
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17. The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
By: Christine Féret-Fleury
3.04
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Amelie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose … read more
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- magical realism
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- adult
- audiobook
"she plunged her nose into the fragrant mist, closed her eyes and imagined herself far away, very far away, at one of those Middle Eastern markets that the bombs had reduced to rubble, in one of those…"-Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
"It must be part of the inescapable human condition--each person ultimately deaf, impervious to other people's emotions, incapable of deciphering gestures, looks, or silences, all condemned to give pa…"-Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
"He was talking about books as if they were alive - old friends, powerful adversaries at times, insolent teenagers and elderly ladies sitting by the fire. In our bookcases? Grumpy wise men and mistres…"-Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
18. The Late Bloomers' Club
By: Louise Miller
3.78
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A delightful novel about two headstrong sisters, a small town’s efforts to do right by the communit… read more
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"You're on your own, kid."-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club
"Everything has a way of cycling back."-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club
"The best things are worth waiting for."-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club
"Some of the best things in life take time to ripen."-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club
19. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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20. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
By: M.J. Wassmer
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapp… read more
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21. Cormorant Lake
By: Faith Merino
3.39
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
On a cold November night, Evelyn Van Pelt steals her roommate’s two underfed and neglected little g… read more
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