Happy for You
By: Claire Stanford
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart, funny, affecting novel about a young woman who takes a job at a tech company looking …
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1. The Innocents
By: Francesca Segal
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012 What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enoug… read more
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2. Disorientation
By: Elaine Hsieh Chou
3.84
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
3. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
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- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
4. Vintage Contemporaries
By: Dan Kois
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New Yor… read more
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5. 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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- literary fiction
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"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
6. Happy for You
By: Claire Stanford
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart, funny, affecting novel about a young woman who takes a job at a tech company looking … read more
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- psychology
- mental health
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- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
- technology
7. Activities of Daily Living
By: Lisa Hsiao Chen
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How do we take stock of a life—by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preocc… read more
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- novels
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"Grief is like watching television."-Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living
8. Joan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more
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- literary fiction
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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
9. A Novel Obsession
By: Caitlin Barasch
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A wry and bold debut novel, which is at once an irresistible catastrophe waiting to happen and an u… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I tend to drink too fast—eager to become the playful, chatty woman everyone thinks I am."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"This is how I’ll always remember it, the feeling of finally being loved—only said to stop someone from leaving. Desperate, thoughtless, conditional."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"I told myself not to take it personally—if they truly didn’t know me, if I hadn’t let them in, then the person they were rejecting was definitely not-me."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
10. The Glow
By: Jessie Gaynor
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow
11. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
12. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
13. Truth and Other Lies
By: Maggie Smith
3.68
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
The Devil Wears Prada meets All the President's MenThree women's careers hang in the balance: a fam… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
14. End of the World House
By: Adrienne Celt
3.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, worki… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- audiobook
"You never know why not, before it happens. That’s what Bertie realized. Time passes. Slow, then fast. Bit by bit, and then it’s gone."-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"Both of them dated a lot, though unsuccessfully, choosing the solace of easy sex over the ontological work of rearranging their lives for relationships."-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"Why had she ever wanted to come here? To see art. To see someone else’s inspiration, but in its worst, its least natural form. The point being not that it was beautiful, but that it was chosen."-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"She and Kate had wanted to see the things everyone else saw, too, but with their own eyes. That was how art, how anything, became immortal. Becoming a still point in the universe, around which endles…"-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
15. American Mermaid
By: Julia Langbein
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
16. The Complicities
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Hurricane Girl
By: Marcy Dermansky
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice (“A cupcake that turns out to be nutri… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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18. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Angela Sterritt
4.51
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more
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19. Kaleidoscope
By: Cecily Wong
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and heartfelt novel about two sisters caught in their parents' ambition, the accident th… read more
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
20. Central Places
By: Delia Cai
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to… read more
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
21. Grown Women
By: Sarai Johnson
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and d… read more
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"I don’t think you’re ever really grown."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
"We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
"Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
"Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is stay the hell away from them."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
