In the Orchard
By: Eliza Minot
3.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen throug…
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1. The Middlesteins
By: Jami Attenberg
3.44
Format: 201 pages, ebook
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"Robin looked at Daniel and had the meanest thought of her life: "He'll do."-Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins
"What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?"-Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins
"It's not that I don't care," said Robin. "It's just that I don't want to know." She knew too much already. This was real life, kicking her in the face, and she wanted nothing to do with it."-Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins
"She wanted to read and talk and laugh and watch television and listen to the radio. She wanted to watch the world around her go by, and make up stories in her head about everything she saw...Like a p…"-Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins
2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
By: Anna Quindlen
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the… read more
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3. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- marriage
- parenting
4. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
5. Earth's the Right Place for Love
By: Elizabeth Berg
4.11
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
This beautiful new novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
"Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now. 'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mea…"-Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love
6. Commitment
By: Mona Simpson
3.62
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"He respected architecture less than he once had. Some buildings were true art. A few more worked like machines for living. But when he looked at most new buildings, what he saw was ego. So many peopl…"-Mona Simpson, Commitment
7. Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise
8. Do Tell
By: Lindsay Lynch
3.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the cloc… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
9. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
10. Within Arm's Reach
By: Ann Napolitano
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
11. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
12. Little Monsters
By: Adrienne Brodeur
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
13. Coleman Hill
By: Kim Coleman Foote
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
14. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
15. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
16. Pete and Alice in Maine
By: Caitlin Shetterly
3.38
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
17. Hope
By: Andrew Ridker
3.67
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
18. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
20. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
21. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- marriage
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
22. Cutting Teeth
By: Chandler Baker
3.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of par… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
23. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more
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"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
24. Reunion
By: Elise Juska
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
25. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)
By: Hannah Pittard
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more
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- marriage
26. Glassworks
By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
3.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four gene… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
28. Social Engagement
By: Avery Carpenter Forrey
2.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bitingly sharp and darkly humorous debut novel exploring millennial wedding culture, class, and r… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Book of George
By: Kate Greathead
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. f… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
30. In the Orchard
By: Eliza Minot
3.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen throug… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- parenting
- marriage
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
31. A Reason to See You Again
By: Jami Attenberg
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
