The Beekeeper of Aleppo
By: Christy Lefteri
4.17
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on their survi…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"You see?" he whispered. "You see? You have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine"-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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1. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
By: Deborah Rodriguez
3.67
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life:… read more
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- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- book club
"Miluješ, zemřeš a mezitím se snažíš žít, jak nejlíp dokážeš."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
"Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
"The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God’s heart that makes my love for you forever."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
At once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of fami… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
3. And the Mountains Echoed
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.07
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Par… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- book club
"Who rebels with mathematics?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
4. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
5. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
By: Zoulfa Katouh
4.50
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had h… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Bury me before I bury you" I did."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"There are enough people hurting you,"-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"He bites his lip. “Please take of yourself."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"I’ll make it as soon as I’m done with this."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
6. 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
- book club
- audiobook
7. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
8. 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
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- 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
10. 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
11. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
By: Heather Morris
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day."-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
"How can a race spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?"-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
"Good and evil coexist in the worst of times. It is then when hope shines through."-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
"You see your world reflected in a mirror, but I have another mirror I look into mine, and I see a world that will bring yours down."-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
12. The Island of Missing Trees
By: Elif Shafak
4.15
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the B… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- audiobook
"She was no part of anything. In her unbroken loneliness, she was complete. Never had she felt so exposed, yet si powerful."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"To immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, And to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories ..."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
13. The Stationery Shop
By: Marjan Kamali
4.22
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"He would get out of the car to make sure her knitted scarf protected her nose and mouth against the wind. And they would climb the steps of the gray building labeled “Duxton Senior Center."-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"The truth is, my young lady, that fate has written the script for your destiny on your forehead from the very beginning. We can't see it. But it's there. And the young, who love so passionately, have…"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"Just months ago [...] She would not have understood [...] that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in …"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
14. 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
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
15. Lessons in Chemistry
By: Bonnie Garmus
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
16. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- 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
17. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
18. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
By: Christy Lefteri
4.17
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on their survi… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness."-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
"You see?" he whispered. "You see? You have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine"-Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
19. 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
- contemporary
- 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
20. How to Kill Your Family
By: Bella Mackie
3.54
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
21. The Keeper of Stories
By: Sally Page
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
