A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y…
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1. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #3)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.33
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case… read more
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2. Ordinary Light
By: Tracy K. Smith
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the me… read more
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3. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
4. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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5. A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y… read more
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6. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
7. 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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"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
8. Wayward
By: Dana Spiotta
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” ( The New York Time… read more
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"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and a…"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
9. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
10. Inverno
By: Cynthia Zarin
2.98
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A daring, heartbreaking novel, Inverno is the book that J. D. Salinger’s Franny Glass might have wr… read more
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11. Something New Under the Sun
By: Alexandra Kleeman
3.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with a… read more
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"Why was the only choice paper or plastic, rathern than being able to choose to buy nothing at all?"-Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun
12. Against Silence: Poems
By: Frank Bidart
3.59
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one… read more
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13. The Boy in the Field
By: Margot Livesey
3.71
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unfo… read more
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14. Libertie
By: Kaitlyn Greenidge
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns w… read more
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- adult
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"Being a mother means being someone's God, if only briefly."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"If I burn her words, I will be free of whatever she wants of me. Instead I stuffed the papers back in my drawer."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
15. A Calling for Charlie Barnes
By: Joshua Ferris
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern Am… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
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16. The Red Car
By: Marcy Dermansky
3.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In her “dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups” (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky off… read more
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"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
"While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen."-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
"I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I …"-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
17. For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
By: John Mauceri
3.85
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation,… read more
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18. Costalegre
By: Courtney Maum
3.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. In the haute-bohemian circles of Austria, Germany, a… read more
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19. The Sun Collective
By: Charles Baxter
3.28
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a tim… read more
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20. Bewilderness
By: Karen Tucker
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Set in rural North Carolina, this funny, painful, and very wise novel follows two young women—best… read more
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21. Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
By: Stephen Kendrick
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The authors of Douglass and Lincoln present fully for the first time the story of Martin Luther Kin… read more
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