The Marriage Portrait
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.01
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The author of award-winning Hamnet…
Want to Read $ 12.99"May I keep this?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
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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
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
- 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. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
3. 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
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
4. 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
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- 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
5. 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
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
- audiobook
6. 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
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
7. 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
- historical
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- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
8. Horse
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
10. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
11. 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
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- 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
12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By: Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Friendship,"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"How I will miss the horses."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"You try again. You fail better."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"There are no ghosts, but up here"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
13. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
14. 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
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 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
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
- fiction
- novels
- book club
- 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. The Marriage Portrait
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.01
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
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- italy
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"May I keep this?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
17. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
18. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
19. Weyward
By: Emilia Hart
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."-Emilia Hart, Weyward
"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"-Emilia Hart, Weyward
20. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Our Missing Hearts
By: Celeste Ng
3.80
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gard… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
