Our Country Friends
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.21
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion…
Want to Read $ 4.99"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
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1. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
2. Mercy Street
By: Jennifer Haigh
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
3. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
4. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
5. The Latecomer
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.01
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
6. Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
7. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
8. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
9. Matrix
By: Lauren Groff
3.68
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
10. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
11. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"...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
13. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
14. Our Country Friends
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.21
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- unfinished
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
15. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"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
16. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
17. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- unfinished
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
18. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
19. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"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
20. Crossroads
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.06
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
21. The Candy House
By: Jennifer Egan
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
22. The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
3.95
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
23. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
24. Wayward
By: Dana Spiotta
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” ( The New York Time… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and a…"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
25. Intimacies
By: Katie Kitamura
3.65
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
26. Oh William!
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
27. A Calling for Charlie Barnes
By: Joshua Ferris
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern Am… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
28. 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
- novels
- audiobook
29. Ghosts of Gotham (The Ghosts of Gotham Saga, #1)
By: Craig Schaefer
3.65
Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition
Irresistibly drawn to mysteries, if only to debunk them, reporter Lionel Page exposes supernatural … read more
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- fiction
30. In Concrete
By: Anne Garréta
3.31
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Garreta’s first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure … read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- novels
31. The Confession of Copeland Cane
By: Keenan Norris
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive… H… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
