From the Longing Orchard
By: Jessica Jopp
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make n…
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1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.72
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
2. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more
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3. Juliet, Naked
By: Nick Hornby
3.89
Format: 202 pages,
Annie loves Duncan -- or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't… read more
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4. The Other Einstein
By: Marie Benedict
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the … read more
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5. My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)
By: Elena Ferrante
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, int… read more
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6. The Swimmers
By: Julie Otsuka
3.67
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
7. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- fiction
8. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
9. 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
- queer
"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
10. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
11. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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- fiction
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
12. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
13. Woman of Light
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano fa… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
14. Good Night, Irene
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.14
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene
15. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
16. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
17. The Other Black Girl
By: Zakiya Dalila Harris
3.36
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two you… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Locs or no locs, though… you know one of your coworkers is gonna mix you and the new Black girl up at least once. I promise you."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"OBGs. "Other Black Girls," Lynn had dubbed them, "because they're not our kind." They were something else entirely. Something close to alien...."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"At a historically Black college, Diana had been granted the blessed gift of tunnel vision. She'd been blessed with the ability to forget white people existed, if only for a little while. I had been b…"-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"..eight or nine women and one extremely serious-looking man had decided to spend their Monday evening exercising with a demonic workout instructor n the Flatbush District rather than doing something …"-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
18. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
19. The Startup Wife
By: Tahmima Anam
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Newlyweds Asha and Cyrus build an app that replaces religious rituals and soon find themselves runn… read more
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- adult
- fiction
20. Girlfriend on Mars
By: Deborah Willis
3.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more
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- adult
- fiction
21. A Tide Should Be Able to Rise Despite Its Moon
By: Jessica Bell
4.38
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
★★★★★ "Ethereal. Hypnotic. Oracular." Amie McCracken, author of Emotionless Inspired by the spec… read more
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22. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories
By: Tara Lynn Masih
4.37
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
2022 Florida Book Award Winner In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers … read more
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- fiction
23. Dear Edna Sloane
By: Amy Shearn
3.96
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic a… read more
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- fiction
24. The Tenth Muse
By: Catherine Chung
4.03
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be.… read more
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- adult
- fiction
25. Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)
By: Madeleine Nakamura
4.01
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic, must survive his own failing mental health and a tenuous p… read more
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- adult
- queer
26. From the Longing Orchard
By: Jessica Jopp
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make n… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- fiction
- queer
27. The Geography of First Kisses
By: Karin Cecile Davidson
4.20
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-… read more
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- fiction
28. The Mighty Red
By: Louise Erdrich
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more
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- adult
- fiction
29. Everything's Changing
By: Chelsea Stickle
4.59
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
Everything is changing in towns across the United States. What we think we know is wrong. Animals h… read more
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- fiction
"I’m sorry to report that if you can hear me, you’re dead. Such a shame. But don’t worry. We’ll help you adjust."-Chelsea Stickle, Everything's Changing
"People say ballet theaters are haunted by the dancers who died tragically young, but that’s not true. Theaters are haunted by bored ghost girls. They’ve spooked everyone worth spooking. Wandered Pari…"-Chelsea Stickle, Everything's Changing
30. Under a Neon Sun
By: Kate Gale
3.78
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Unable to afford rent, Mia—a community college student—lives out of her car, cleaning houses of the… read more
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- fiction
31. Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love
By: Carlos Allende
3.40
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted. Last November, I found a dead body insid… read more
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- adult
- fiction
