In the Time of Our History
By: Susanne Pari
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Inspired by her own Iranian-American heritage, the acclaimed author weaves a beautifully crafted st…
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1. The Road to Bittersweet
By: Donna Everhart
4.00
Format: 120 pages,
Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more
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2. 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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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
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4. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
5. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
6. 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
7. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- family
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- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
8. 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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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
9. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more
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"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
11. 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
12. 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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- audiobook
13. In the Time of Our History
By: Susanne Pari
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Inspired by her own Iranian-American heritage, the acclaimed author weaves a beautifully crafted st… read more
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- historical
- family
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- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- iran
- audiobook
14. The Museum of Failures
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.13
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more
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- adult
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"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
15. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
By: Laura Pearson
4.03
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husban… read more
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- fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. No. 23 Burlington Square
By: Jenni Keer
4.21
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
London, 1927: One house. Three lives. A decision that will change everything. A powerful, unique ti… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
17. The Lost Letters of Aisling
By: Cynthia Ellingsen
4.34
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman faces the past she fled in a heart-stirring novel about unforgettable love and indomitable … read more
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- family
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- novels
18. The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
By: Alka Joshi
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Paris, 1974. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two da… read more
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I've given my best, but I've been used. Delphine said I have to move past it. Lakshmi moved past her betrayals. So did Victorine. Isn't that the look she's giving us in Manet's paining? There will al…"-Alka Joshi, The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
19. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
20. Where Waters Meet
By: Zhang Ling
3.86
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’s secret life in an emotional and … read more
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- contemporary
- adult
21. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
22. Between Earth and Sky
By: Amanda Skenandore
4.34
Format: 336 pages, ebook
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her p… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
23. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
24. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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- adult
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"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
25. Beyond That, the Sea
By: Laura Spence-Ash
4.24
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of t… read more
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- family
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
26. The Consequence of Anna
By: Kate Birkin
4.16
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, reminiscent of The Thorn Birds, The Light Between Oceans, and Lady Chatt… read more
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- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth."-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
"A face with no freckles is like a flower with no bloom."-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
"What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?"-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
27. The Tuscan Orphan
By: Siobhan Daiko
4.13
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
1944 - When an air raid strikes the hospital she’s been working in, Carrie’s life irrevocably chang… read more
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- fiction
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28. The Rise of Light
By: Olivia Hawker
4.13
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful novel about the expectations of family—and the risks and liberation of defying them—by t… read more
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- historical
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
29. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday
By: Namrata Patel
4.02
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more
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- family
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
30. The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
4.50
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- iran
- audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
31. The Moonflowers
By: Abigail Rose-Marie
4.39
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
In a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generati… read more
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