Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our …
Want to Read $ 9.99"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still thought I might become...It feels harder--fucking terrifying--that there is no longer any person in the world who loves me like she did."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
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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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
2. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
3. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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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
4. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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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
5. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
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- audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
6. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
7. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- audiobook
8. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
9. 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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- audiobook
10. Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
3.91
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
11. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
12. 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
13. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
14. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
15. A Quiet Life
By: Ethan Joella
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, charact… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a pain…"-Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life
16. Sam
By: Allegra Goodman
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What happens to a girl’s exuberance and wonder as she becomes a woman? This unforgettable portrait … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
By: Kevin Wilson
3.69
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic
18. Mercury
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. 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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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
20. We All Want Impossible Things
By: Catherine Newman
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
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"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things
21. 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
