White Ivy
By: Susie Yang
3.55
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Bosto…
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1. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
2. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
3. 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
- 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
4. Bright Young Women
By: Jessica Knoll
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
5. 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
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
6. 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
- 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
7. 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
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- 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
8. 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
- contemporary
- 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
9. 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
- 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
10. 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
- 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
11. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
12. White Ivy
By: Susie Yang
3.55
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Bosto… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"... Give with one hand and take with the other. No one will be watching both."-Susie Yang, White Ivy
13. Send for Me
By: Lauren Fox
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"She went out for dinner with the guy who fixed her computer. All evening long, she couldn't remember his name. But he smiled sweetly as he explained motherboards to her and asked her about her life. …"-Lauren Fox, Send for Me
14. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
15. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- 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
16. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
17. 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
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- 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
18. The Turnout
By: Megan Abbott
3.11
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers si… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always c…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"The entire time Tchaikovsky was composing 'The Nutcracker,' Madame Sylvie told Dara once, he was mourning his beloved sister Sasha. He reanimated her through Clara. It explained the strange heaviness…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
"The woman's body twitched suddenly, as if remembering something, and she covered her mouth with a stiff mitten. Dara knew what it was. She'd felt it a dozen times that day already. The body rememberi…"-Megan Abbott, The Turnout
19. Lies and Weddings
By: Kevin Kwan
3.82
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
20. Good Company
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship.Flora Mancini has be… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
21. The School for Good Mothers
By: Jessamine Chan
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781982156121 can be found here. In this taut and explosive d… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Lots of people are all cold and heartless. Who do you think works in a prison? Who do you think works on death row? It's a job."-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
"A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world."-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
"Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, al…"-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
22. Valentine
By: Elizabeth Wetmore
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of on… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"The only thing I hate more that being home with Alice all day long is feeling guilty about not wanting to do it. Corrine's voice breaks and she pushes her fist against her mouth. She is trying not to…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"He wears a Stetson so clean you could eat a sandwich off the brim. All hat, no cattle. Keith leaned forward and looked me right in the eye,. Family's been in Texas since forever. Probably got a whole…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"Yeah. What do you need, Corrine, to be happy with me and Alice? She doesn't hesitate. I need to go back to my work, Potter. Honey, you work, taking care of Alice and me. Yes, I do. I'd prefer to teac…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"In the church where I grew up, we were taught that sin, even if it happens only in your heart, condemns you all the same. Grace is not assured to any of us, maybe not even most of us, and while being…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
23. Searching for Sylvie Lee
By: Jean Kwok
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Once you loved him, everything in your life fell into a before and after. Nothing would ever be the same."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Helena's eyes glittered with naked intensity. I could not tell if they were filled with greed or a desperate need to be loved. I was not even sure if it made a difference: it came down to hunger. Per…"-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
24. The Whispers
By: Ashley Audrain
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens--and… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
25. Counterfeit
By: Kirstin Chen
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Reese's Book Club hardcover edition can be found here. For fans of Hustlers and How to Get F… read more
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- adult fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"I'd nodded dumbly, unable to conceive how it was that I still had my grandmother while by baby no longer had his."-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit
"What had once been their greatest strength--their perceived docility and obedience, their relative invisibility--had become their weakness. The narrative flipped. Now their Asian features read as sch…"-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit
"She'd gone to the right schools, chosen the right career, married the right partner, formed the right family - and made enormous sacrifices in the process, and yet here she was, thoroughly miserable,…"-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit
26. Bright Burning Things
By: Lisa Harding
3.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast ca… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
27. What's Mine and Yours
By: Naima Coster
3.56
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family-and the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"For all her boldness, Jade was good at citing risks, naming all the things that could sabotage a life. In the weeks after a homicide in the neighborhood, elementary school kids did worse on tests. Te…"-Naima Coster, What's Mine and Yours
28. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
29. 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
- 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
30. 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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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
31. 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
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
