Dava Shastri's Last Day
By: Kirthana Ramisetti
3.49
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy—a decisio…
Want to Read $ 11.99"And then maybe like a few months after the divorce, I read an amazing quote: 'Compatibility is an achievement of love. It shouldn't be its precondition.' Well, that hit me in the gut."-Kirthana Ramisetti, Dava Shastri's Last Day
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1. The Windfall
By: Soneela Nankani , Diksha Basu
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corner… read more
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2. 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
3. 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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"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
4. 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
5. 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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6. 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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"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
7. The Celebrants
By: Steven Rowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
8. 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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"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
9. Dava Shastri's Last Day
By: Kirthana Ramisetti
3.49
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy—a decisio… read more
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"And then maybe like a few months after the divorce, I read an amazing quote: 'Compatibility is an achievement of love. It shouldn't be its precondition.' Well, that hit me in the gut."-Kirthana Ramisetti, Dava Shastri's Last Day
10. True Biz
By: Sara Nović
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more
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"No one is comforted by salad."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"-Sara Nović, True Biz
"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."-Sara Nović, True Biz
11. 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
12. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
13. Lies and Weddings
By: Kevin Kwan
3.82
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more
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14. The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more
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"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
15. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
By: Crystal Smith Paul
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of mode… read more
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"We always have a choice; we only say we don't to soothe our conscience from what we're capable of."-Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
16. The Fortunes of Jaded Women
By: Carolyn Huynh
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with… read more
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17. Counterfeit
By: Kirstin Chen
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"I'd nodded dumbly, unable to conceive how it was that I still had my grandmother while by baby no longer had his."-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit
"What had once been their greatest strength--their perceived docility and obedience, their relative invisibility--had become their weakness. The narrative flipped. Now their Asian features read as sch…"-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit
"She'd gone to the right schools, chosen the right career, married the right partner, formed the right family - and made enormous sacrifices in the process, and yet here she was, thoroughly miserable,…"-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit
18. Tell Me How to Be
By: Neel Patel
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for… read more
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"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
19. Honor
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.36
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two coup… read more
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"It was as if a gust of wind had blown open a window in my heart and a sweet bird had flown in and made a nest."-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
"Because a woman can live in one of two houses--fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time."-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
"Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time."-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
"When Radha and I were children, we used to play a game. She would ask, “What is the true color of the world, Didi?"-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
20. The Unsinkable Greta James
By: Jennifer E. Smith
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Greta James's meteoric rise to ind… read more
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"The truth is, being a parent is mostly just reacting. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. You give what you can. And at the end of the day, most of it is just being there."-Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James
21. The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more
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"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
