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 …
Want to Read $ 11.99"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 people had to erect their own; it would go on until we plowed down the last trees on the planet."-Mona Simpson, Commitment
"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 people had to erect their own; it would go on until we plowed down the last trees on the planet."-Mona Simpson, Commitment
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1. 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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2. 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
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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4. 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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"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
5. 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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"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
6. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
7. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
8. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
9. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
10. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
11. Pineapple Street
By: Jenny Jackson
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more
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"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street
12. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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13. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
14. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
15. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
16. 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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17. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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18. Welcome Home, Stranger
By: Kate Christensen
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more
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19. Take What You Need
By: Idra Novey
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more
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20. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
21. The Half Moon
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more
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22. 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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"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
23. 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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"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
24. 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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"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
25. 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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26. 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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27. Such Kindness
By: Andre Dubus III
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He … read more
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28. 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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"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
29. 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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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
30. 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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31. 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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