Open Me
By: Lisa Locascio
3.12
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Roxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris, and after high school graduation finally plans t…
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1. Story of O (Story of O #1)
By: Pauline Réage , Sabine d'Estree
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Story of O relates the progressive willful debasement of a young and beautiful Parisian fashion… read more
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- romance
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2. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile
By: Françoise Sagan
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Published when she was only nineteen, Francoise Sagan's astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse b… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
4. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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5. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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6. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
7. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
8. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
9. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
10. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
11. Salt Kiss (Lyonesse, #1)
By: Sierra Simone
4.08
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
Tristan Thomas is lost. After leaving the Army, the young former soldier is in limbo. Until, th… read more
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- romance
- adult
- contemporary
12. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
13. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"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
14. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
15. A Touch of Jen
By: Beth Morgan
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
16. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
17. A Very Nice Girl
By: Imogen Crimp
3.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very N… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
18. Post-Traumatic
By: Chantal V. Johnson
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
19. Hurt for Me
By: Heather Levy
3.85
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
A single mother’s brutal past threatens to destroy the new life she’s built in this suspenseful dar… read more
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- romance
- adult
- fiction
20. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
21. Open Me
By: Lisa Locascio
3.12
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Roxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris, and after high school graduation finally plans t… read more
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- coming of age
- travel
- literature
- denmark
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
