Crossroads
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.06
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision …
Want to Read"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
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1. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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2. 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
- 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
"I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
3. 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
4. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
5. To Paradise
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.75
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
6. Luister
By: Sacha Bronwasser
3.95
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Het nieuws reisde snel, zoals dat soort nieuws doet. Ik wist dat het ook over jou ging zodra het ee… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
7. 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
- family
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
8. 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
9. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
10. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
11. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
12. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
13. 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
- literature
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
14. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
15. Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
By: Anjet Daanje
4.38
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Eliza May Drayden, het hoofdpersonage van Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris, is al dood als de ro… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"De berg heeft zijn duistere kant verloren, het is een vriend geworden, zijn enige, want hij durft niemand meer te vertrouwen."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Alles verliest zijn waarde als het er altijd is, alsof je langzaam blind wordt. Dat hij van Sally hield, begreep hij ook pas toen ze langer de zijne was."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Een uur is een object, zo lijkt het, waarvan ze de omvang inschat aan de hand van wat haar ogen zien, en hier is niets dan duisternis, als een nachtkaars is de tijd gedoofd."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Alleen vanaf de drempel kijkend naar onze versimpelde, geordende wereld der grote dingen, ervaren we verandering, en dus Tijd. Die Tijd is het gevolg van ons onvermogen om de wereld te zien zoals hij…"-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
16. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
17. 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
- 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
18. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- family
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
19. Crossroads
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.06
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
20. The Candy House
By: Jennifer Egan
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
21. Oh William!
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
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"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
