Highway Blue
By: Ailsa McFarlane
3.16
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A hypnotic debut of broken love on the run, from a blazingly original young writer "In front of …
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1. Don't Skip Out on Me
By: Willy Vlautin
4.13
Format: 304 pages, ebook
From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Mr. Reese had told him that life, at its core, was a cruel burden because we had the knowledge that we were born to die. We were born with innocent eyes and those eyes had to see pain and death and d…"-Willy Vlautin, Don't Skip Out on Me
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3. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Sisters
By: Daisy Johnson
3.48
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Settembre è la persona che avrei sempre voluto essere. Io sono una forma ritagliata dall'universo, trapunta di stelle che continuano a morire - e lei è la creatura che riempie il vuoto che io lascio …"-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
5. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
6. New Animal
By: Ella Baxter
3.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
7. The Bad Angel Brothers
By: Paul Theroux
3.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An evocative novel about two brothers whose rivalry as youths in the Massachusetts town of Littlefo… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
8. A Novel Obsession
By: Caitlin Barasch
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A wry and bold debut novel, which is at once an irresistible catastrophe waiting to happen and an u… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I tend to drink too fast—eager to become the playful, chatty woman everyone thinks I am."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"This is how I’ll always remember it, the feeling of finally being loved—only said to stop someone from leaving. Desperate, thoughtless, conditional."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"I told myself not to take it personally—if they truly didn’t know me, if I hadn’t let them in, then the person they were rejecting was definitely not-me."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
9. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
10. A Better World
By: Sarah Langan
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
11. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. We Are Inevitable
By: Gayle Forman
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'I got this whole-body feeling... it was like a message from future me to present me, telling me th… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone."-Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I read the opening lines of the book, and it’s like my own pages are coming unstuck. For so long, all I’ve felt is fear, and all this time, it was gr…"-Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable
13. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
14. Palace of the Drowned
By: Christine Mangan
3.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Tangerine , a "taut and mesmerizing follow up...voluptuously atmosph… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"But then – she looked up, her eyes falling on the person standing there, and she could have laughed. It was only a girl. A young woman, Frankie supposed she should say, although lately anyone younger…"-Christine Mangan, Palace of the Drowned
15. Paul
By: Daisy Lafarge
3.49
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tend… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Swanna in Love
By: Jennifer Belle
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Supper Club
By: Lara Williams
3.46
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who mee… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
19. Welcome to Glorious Tuga
By: Francesca Segal
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet C… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
20. Highway Blue
By: Ailsa McFarlane
3.16
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A hypnotic debut of broken love on the run, from a blazingly original young writer "In front of … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- americana
- travel
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- road trip
- audiobook
21. Barrowbeck
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more
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- fiction
