A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
By: Ann Beattie
2.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teach…
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1. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
By: Mona Awad
3.07
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way… read more
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- fiction
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"The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"What does she even eat, do you think?" "Tea fungus,"Ruth says. "Unsweetened. From an eye dropper. Is what I picture. either that or some sort of sea vegetable." "Sad," I say. "It is," Ruth muses. We …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
2. Mr. Rochester
By: Sarah Shoemaker
3.93
Format: 453 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous, deft literary retelling of Charlotte Bronte's beloved Jane Eyre--through the eyes of th… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I discovered that if I played the role of master too broadly, and pushed her too imperiously, she became stubborn and annoyed, so I took care to apologize where I could, to treat her not as an inferi…"-Sarah Shoemaker, Mr. Rochester
3. The Monsters of Templeton
By: Lauren Groff
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced i… read more
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- fiction
4. Labor Day
By: Joyce Maynard
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mill… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
5. The Paying Guests
By: Sarah Waters
3.45
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry ar… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"...why must people of that class always reveal so much of themselves? A few more minutes and she would have shown us her varicose veins."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
6. Problems with People: Stories
By: David Guterson
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Ten sharply observed, funny, and wise new stories from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on C… read more
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7. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
By: Ann Patchett
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run,and Bel Canto,examines… read more
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8. In the Unlikely Event
By: Judy Blume
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times# 1 best-selling author of Summe… read more
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9. Truth and Beauty
By: Ann Patchett
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more
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10. Where the Heart Is
By: Billie Letts
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation wa… read more
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11. The Aviator's Wife
By: Melanie Benjamin
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in … read more
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12. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
By: Dave Eggers
4.04
Format: 538 pages,
'When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow ex… read more
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13. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
14. Crossings
By: Alex Landragin
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed t… read more
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- fiction
"As long as I have a glimpse of sky, I can tolerate almost any hardship."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
"Here was a man who seemed to take amusement in the messiness of life--as close to a definition of happiness as I know."-Alex Landragin, Crossings
15. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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- audiobook
16. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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- audiobook
17. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
18. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
19. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
20. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
21. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
22. You Are My Sunshine: A Story of Love, Promises, and a Really Long Bike Ride (Sean of the South)
By: Sean Dietrich
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept. … read more
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- audiobook
23. The Divorcées
By: Rowan Beaird
3.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
24. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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- audiobook
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
25. Jeeves and the King of Clubs
By: Ben Schott
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa."-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the King of Clubs
"Properly cared for, a Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations—like gout."-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the King of Clubs
"Such diplomacy is not to be sneezed at, for the suit is a window to the soul: lightweight cotton when cash is tight, Italian cashmere when an inheritance lands; waistlines drawn in during illness or …"-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the King of Clubs
26. Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
By: Ben Schott
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Jeeves and Wooster return in a new espionage caper full of japes, high jinks, and jiggery-pokery in… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"- Were you never a child? - Briefly, sir. The predicament proved unavoidable."-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
"As Sherlock Holmes once observed: When you've excluded the inevitable, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be lunch."-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
"- But tell me, who was that queer cove with the spool of twine and the German accent? - The Austrian accent? Jeeves gently corrected. I may be mistaken, sir, but I think that was the philosopher Ludw…"-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
"- But tell me, who was that queer cove with the spool of twine and the German accent? - The Austrian accent? Jeeves gently corrected. I may be mistaken, sir, but I think that was the philosopher Ludw…"-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
27. In the Shadow of the Sun (In the Shadow of the Sun, #1)
By: E.M. Castellan
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
It’s 1661 in Paris, and magicians thrill nobles with enchanting illusions. Exiled in France, 17-yea… read more
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28. A Step Past Darkness
By: Vera Kurian
3.55
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
29. Everything Is Just Fine
By: Brett Paesel
3.50
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this brilliant, laugh-out-loud satire, named one of Washington Independent Review of Books Favor… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
30. Lady Macbeth
By: Ava Reid
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more
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- fiction
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth
31. A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
By: Ann Beattie
2.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teach… read more
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- adult fiction
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