Sparks Like Stars
By: Nadia Hashimi
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanist…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Grief starts before anyone has gone missing."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"If faith was a life raft, mine was riddled with holes."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"You need no one to confirm you. You are everything you believe yourself to be."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
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1. 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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- adult fiction
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"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
2. 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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3. 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
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4. 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
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"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
5. 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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6. 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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"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
7. 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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8. 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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"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
9. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
10. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
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"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
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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"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. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.07
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more
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"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
13. Sparks Like Stars
By: Nadia Hashimi
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanist… read more
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- cultural
- historical
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- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Grief starts before anyone has gone missing."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"If faith was a life raft, mine was riddled with holes."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"You need no one to confirm you. You are everything you believe yourself to be."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
14. The House of Eve
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more
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15. The Measure
By: Nikki Erlick
3.99
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour … read more
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16. Looking for Jane
By: Heather Marshall
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more
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17. The Diamond Eye
By: Kate Quinn
4.29
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II t… read more
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18. All the Lonely People
By: Mike Gayle
4.17
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone. He just needs to realise it. In weekly phone calls to … read more
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"Smiler, this damn tea so weak it nearly a fortnight!"-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
"That's the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them."-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
"I've got a question for you . . . What are you doing on Saturday night?' Hubert stared at her confused. 'Me . . . me . . . got no plans.' 'Good,' she replied. 'In that case you're taking me to the fi…"-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
"For the rest of the day Hubert couldn't stop grinning. He grinned in the lift on the way back down to the warehouse. He grinned as he passed Mr Coulthard yelling at the new lads. And he grinned all t…"-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
19. Lost & Found: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Schulz
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more
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"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
20. The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
4.50
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more
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"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
21. Someday, Maybe
By: Onyi Nwabineli
3.90
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A stunning and witty debut novel about a young woman’s emotional journey through unimaginable loss,… read more
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"Nobody tells you that irrational hope is a side effect of grief. And they should because it is dangerous."-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe
"when someone you love dies, there's this period of disbelief-a time of dug-in heels, the refusal to process your new reality."-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe
"...there is no easy way to articulate what it means for your loved ones to worry that your person's ability to love you is limited by their inability to comprehend many of your lived experiences."-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe
