How I Won a Nobel Prize
By: Julius Taranto
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, wickedly funny debut novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgrace…
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1. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
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2. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
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
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
4. Pity
By: Andrew McMillan
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- academia
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- 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
6. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
7. The Spoiled Heart
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- audiobook
8. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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9. 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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- literary fiction
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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
10. How I Won a Nobel Prize
By: Julius Taranto
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, wickedly funny debut novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgrace… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- academia
- humor
- modern
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- contemporary
- adult
- physics
- audiobook
11. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
12. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
13. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
14. Hey, Zoey
By: Sarah Crossan
3.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapses when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage. Whe… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But I wished I wasn’t strong. Because when you are, no one thinks to take care of you."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"We were too alike. We loved one another in the wrong way, but that doesn't mean it wasn't love."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"How could we possibly tell another person everything about ourselves? It would take a lifetime. It would be incredibly boring."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"As a young teacher I would raise my voice to get a group’s attention. Now I know better. To make yourself heard, you get very quiet. It instils fear."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Practice
By: Rosalind Brown
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more
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- contemporary
18. The Book of Ayn
By: Lexi Freiman
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn
19. Bird Life
By: Anna Smaill
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration… read more
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20. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- contemporary
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21. The Amendments
By: Niamh Mulvey
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more
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