One Two Three
By: Laurie Frankel
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the…
Want to Read $ 11.99"You can only chase your own demons, you know." Strange advice from a pastor. "You can't chase your mother's."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"As I have said—and as should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"We don’t need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don’t get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant it seems, and analyze it endlessly. It’s written off—we’re written off—as silly, but it’s the opposite. We understand instinctively that change is slow. If you’re not paying attention, you’ll miss it."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"Mrs. Lasserstein passes out copies of Lord of the Flies and says this will be our fall book, but a whole season seems too long because Lord of the Flies is only 208 pages, and I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for it."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
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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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"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. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- adult fiction
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- contemporary
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3. 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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4. 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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"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
5. 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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- adult
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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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- romance
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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 Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult fiction
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8. 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
9. 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
10. 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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"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
11. The Husbands
By: Holly Gramazio
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more
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12. 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
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"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
13. One Two Three
By: Laurie Frankel
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the… read more
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- adult fiction
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- coming of age
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- audiobook
"You can only chase your own demons, you know." Strange advice from a pastor. "You can't chase your mother's."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"As I have said—and as should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"We don’t need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don’t get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant…"-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"Mrs. Lasserstein passes out copies of Lord of the Flies and says this will be our fall book, but a whole season seems too long because Lord of the Flies is only 208 pages, and I have already read it,…"-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
14. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
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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"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. 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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"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
17. 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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18. The Collected Regrets of Clover
By: Mikki Brammer
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more
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"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
19. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
By: Steven Rowley
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more
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20. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
21. 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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