A Burning
By: Megha Majumdar
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three …
Want to Read $ 4.99"I am opening a card as if it is a flap of my heart. Opening and closing the card, opening and closing the card – I am ready for my heart to be tearing at the fold."-Megha Majumdar, A Burning
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1. 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
2. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- adult fiction
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
3. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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4. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- adult fiction
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
5. 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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- adult fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
6. 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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- adult
- audiobook
7. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
8. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
9. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
10. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
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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
11. 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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- fiction
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- 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
12. 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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- lgbt
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13. 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
- lgbt
- fiction
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"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
14. Friends and Strangers
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.65
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between tw… read more
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"But because she had put in the time, she could now go anywhere."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Friends and Strangers
"Elisabeth pictured drunk teenage girls in cutoffs swinging back and forth, shrieking as they let go. Still making the kinds of bad choices that ultimately didn't matter."-J. Courtney Sullivan, Friends and Strangers
15. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
16. A Burning
By: Megha Majumdar
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three … read more
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- adult fiction
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- asia
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I am opening a card as if it is a flap of my heart. Opening and closing the card, opening and closing the card – I am ready for my heart to be tearing at the fold."-Megha Majumdar, A Burning
17. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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- lgbt
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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
18. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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- literary fiction
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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
19. 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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- adult
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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
20. Transcendent Kingdom
By: Yaa Gyasi
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, … read more
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"I like you best when you're feeling holy. You make me feel holy too."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"There is no living thing on God's green earth that doesn't come to know pain sometime."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"The anger has notes of understanding in it. He's saying, *Yes, she's insufferable, but she's ours and so we must suffer her.*"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
21. Valentine
By: Elizabeth Wetmore
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of on… read more
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"The only thing I hate more that being home with Alice all day long is feeling guilty about not wanting to do it. Corrine's voice breaks and she pushes her fist against her mouth. She is trying not to…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"He wears a Stetson so clean you could eat a sandwich off the brim. All hat, no cattle. Keith leaned forward and looked me right in the eye,. Family's been in Texas since forever. Probably got a whole…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"Yeah. What do you need, Corrine, to be happy with me and Alice? She doesn't hesitate. I need to go back to my work, Potter. Honey, you work, taking care of Alice and me. Yes, I do. I'd prefer to teac…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine
"In the church where I grew up, we were taught that sin, even if it happens only in your heart, condemns you all the same. Grace is not assured to any of us, maybe not even most of us, and while being…"-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine