Friends and Strangers
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.65
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between tw…
Want to Read $ 11.99"But because she had put in the time, she could now go anywhere."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Friends and Strangers
"Elisabeth pictured drunk teenage girls in cutoffs swinging back and forth, shrieking as they let go. Still making the kinds of bad choices that ultimately didn't matter."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Friends and Strangers
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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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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. Margo's Got Money Troubles
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"I’m just saying,"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
3. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
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
- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"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. The Husbands
By: Holly Gramazio
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
6. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
7. The Celebrants
By: Steven Rowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
8. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- 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
9. 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
10. Friends and Strangers
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.65
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between tw… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- family
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"But because she had put in the time, she could now go anywhere."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Friends and Strangers
"Elisabeth pictured drunk teenage girls in cutoffs swinging back and forth, shrieking as they let go. Still making the kinds of bad choices that ultimately didn't matter."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Friends and Strangers
11. Within Arm's Reach
By: Ann Napolitano
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- family
- adult
- audiobook
12. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
13. Expiration Dates
By: Rebecca Serle
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
14. All Adults Here
By: Emma Straub
3.58
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repres… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"There was no excuse, except for the excuse that perfection was impossible, and failure inevitable."-Emma Straub, All Adults Here
"People said that everyone was born alone and everyone would die alone, but they were wrong. When someone was born, they brought so many people with them, generations of people zipped into the marrow …"-Emma Straub, All Adults Here
"People without children thought that having a newborn was the hardest part of parenthood, that upside down, the day is night twilight zone feedings and toothless wails. But parents knew better. Paren…"-Emma Straub, All Adults Here
15. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- family
- 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
16. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
By: Xóchitl González
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
17. The Most Fun We Ever Had
By: Claire Lombardo
3.93
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in lov… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You're ethereal. My intangible everything."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
"Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren't your own."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
"The best thing about the cold was the comfort that came from escaping it."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
"Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
18. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
19. The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
20. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
21. The Comeback
By: Ella Berman
3.74
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a cha… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I know that somebody hurt you. Now it's time for you to fuck shit up, baby lion."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"It all seemed so fragile to me, the trust we put in others without thinking about it."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"Surely there must be some limit to how many times you're allowed to hurt another human."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
"But what if every time something bad happens, it just makes your world a little smaller."-Ella Berman, The Comeback
