A Dangerous Business
By: Jane Smiley
3.17
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set …
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1. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
2. Hang the Moon
By: Jeannette Walls
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more
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3. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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- fiction
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4. 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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- adult fiction
- westerns
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- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"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
5. A Dangerous Business
By: Jane Smiley
3.17
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more
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- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
- adult
- audiobook
6. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
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- historical fiction
7. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- adult fiction
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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9. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
10. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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11. 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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12. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
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- audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
13. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
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"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
14. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
15. The White Lady
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.07
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
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"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
16. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
17. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- historical fiction
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
18. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)
By: Jane Harper
4.05
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more
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19. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
By: Louise Penny
4.46
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more
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"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
20. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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21. Small Mercies
By: Dennis Lehane
4.29
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more
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