The Great Unknown
By: Peg Kingman
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What is your name? Where did you come from? And where are you going? In this immersive novel set in…
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1. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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- fiction
"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
2. A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)
By: Deanna Raybourn
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as the butterflies she collects, Victorian adventuress Ver… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She drew in a deep breath, mastering herself. “Forgive me. My nerves are worked to pieces."-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)
"You rise from your bed every day on two strong legs and can think only to complain that someone once spoke harshly to you."-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)
"...life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey."-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)
"Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a whim of the cosmos?"-Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell, #3)
3. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
By: Sy Montgomery
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more
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- nature
4. The Orchardist
By: Amanda Coplin
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift fami… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Mountain Between Us
By: Charles Martin
3.54
Format: None pages,
On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Kno… read more
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- fiction
6. 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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7. Into the Beautiful North
By: Luis Alberto Urrea , None
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, w… read more
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8. Hild
By: Nicola Griffith
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, us… read more
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9. Crow Lake
By: Mary Lawson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more
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- fiction
"Feeling must have rendered her numb."-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
10. The Trackers
By: Charles Frazier
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."-Charles Frazier, The Trackers
11. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
12. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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- fiction
"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
13. Independence
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
14. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
15. The Invisible Hour
By: Alice Hoffman
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
16. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- nature
- historical fiction
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
17. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical 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
18. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
19. The House Is on Fire
By: Rachel Beanland
4.10
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire
20. Rabbits for Food
By: Binnie Kirshenbaum
3.59
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced gaiety, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out … read more
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- fiction
21. Fervor
By: Toby Lloyd
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more
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- fiction
22. The Old Woman with the Knife
By: Gu Byeong-mo
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the tw… read more
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- fiction
23. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
24. Natural History
By: Andrea Barrett
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- nature
- historical fiction
25. Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
By: Tracy Dawson
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases… read more
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- historical
26. The Great Unknown
By: Peg Kingman
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What is your name? Where did you come from? And where are you going? In this immersive novel set in… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- nature
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