The Violet Hour
By: Katherine Hill
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
For a moment that afternoon, it was only woman and water, the Bay in all its sickening glory squari…
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1. Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
By: Jane Gardam
3.94
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"-Laikas bėga. -Nesu tikras, kad jis žino kur."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Apie praeitį, nebent ji būtų be galo laiminga, vaikai kalbėti nelinkę."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Kai tik atsiranda merginų, egzaminų pažymiai ima blogėti. Kuo karštesnė aistra, tuo prasčiau sekasi mokslas."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
2. This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
By: Melissa Coleman
4.16
Format: 347 pages,
Set on the rugged coast of Maine during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb y… read more
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- family
3. Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, #1)
By: Lisa Unger
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Instant New York Timesand USA TodayBestseller, Finalist for Best Novel in ITW Awards, Bookspan Inte… read more
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4. The Violet Hour
By: Katherine Hill
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A pitch-perfect, emotionally riveting debut novel about the fracturing of a marriage and a family -… read more
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5. Standard Deviation
By: Katherine Heiny
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Simultaneously hilarious an… 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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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
"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. Jacqueline in Paris
By: Ann Mah
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier… read more
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- fiction
8. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
By: Gretchen Rubin
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more
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9. Bright Young Women
By: Jessica Knoll
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more
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- fiction
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
10. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
11. The Cherry Robbers
By: Sarai Walker
3.99
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Kn… read more
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- fiction
12. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
14. French Braid
By: Anne Tyler
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Run Time
By: Catherine Ryan Howard
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Th… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I had really begun to understand why people overeat. It isn't what they eat, it's why they eat it: because when you feel literally full from food, it's a brief respite from feeling figuratively empty…"-Catherine Ryan Howard, Run Time
16. The Woman With the Cure
By: Lynn Cullen
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
She gave up everything— and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the w… read more
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- fiction
"You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner. She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them. And much like Sister Kenny's metho…"-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure
"Even scientific articles contributed to defining a woman's place. It wasn't just by happenstance that when Dorothy was photographed with David Bodian for Time magazine at the conference where they an…"-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure
"Not a direct quote, but referenced in the author's note at the end - Sister Elizabeth Kenny, was instrumental in developing a new method of treating polio. Barbara Johnson, a laboratory technician wh…"-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure
17. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
18. So Lucky
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
IS ANYONE’S LIFE . . . Beth shows that women really can have it all.Ruby lives life by her own r… read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
- contemporary
"If you're not dressing for yourself by forty-five then you need to have a major rethink."-Dawn O'Porter, So Lucky
19. Cat Lady
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more
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- chick lit
- fiction
- contemporary
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady
20. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
22. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
23. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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24. Sunset
By: Jessie Cave
4.11
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
The debut adult novel from Jessie Cave is a spry yet reflective comedy of sisterhood, loneliness an… read more
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- chick lit
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Women and Children First
By: Alina Grabowski
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
26. The Family Chao
By: Lan Samantha Chang
3.35
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
27. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
28. The Love of my Life
By: Rosie Walsh
3.89
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an u… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"...it's only when something's damaged beyond repair that we realize how beautiful it was. [LEO PHILBET]"-Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life
29. The Weekend Retreat
By: Tara Laskowski
3.45
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Three couples. Three days. A family getaway to die for. Every year, the illustrious Van Ness sib… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
30. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
31. What Red Was
By: Rosie Price
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Kate Quaile meets Max Rippon in the first week of university, a life-changing friendship begin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
