A Novel Obsession
By: Caitlin Barasch
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A wry and bold debut novel, which is at once an irresistible catastrophe waiting to happen and an u…
Want to Read $ 12.99"I tend to drink too fast—eager to become the playful, chatty woman everyone thinks I am."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"I tend to drink too fast—eager to become the playful, chatty woman everyone thinks I am."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"This is how I’ll always remember it, the feeling of finally being loved—only said to stop someone from leaving. Desperate, thoughtless, conditional."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"This is how I’ll always remember it, the feeling of finally being loved—only said to stop someone from leaving. Desperate, thoughtless, conditional."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. Smile and Look Pretty
By: Amanda Pellegrino
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A whip-smart, piercing debut novel, Smile and Look Pretty follows four assistants who band together… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
3. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- romance
- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
4. Disorientation
By: Elaine Hsieh Chou
3.84
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
5. Margo's Got Money Troubles
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I’m just saying,"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
7. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
8. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- 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
10. Stone Cold Fox
By: Rachel Koller Croft
3.67
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A compelling debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
11. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
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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- 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. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
14. A Novel Obsession
By: Caitlin Barasch
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A wry and bold debut novel, which is at once an irresistible catastrophe waiting to happen and an u… read more
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- romance
- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"I tend to drink too fast—eager to become the playful, chatty woman everyone thinks I am."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"This is how I’ll always remember it, the feeling of finally being loved—only said to stop someone from leaving. Desperate, thoughtless, conditional."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
"I told myself not to take it personally—if they truly didn’t know me, if I hadn’t let them in, then the person they were rejecting was definitely not-me."-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession
15. The Glow
By: Jessie Gaynor
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow
16. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
17. Cult Classic
By: Sloane Crosley
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully cra… read more
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- romance
- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French."-Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic
18. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
20. youthjuice
By: E.K. Sathue
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
21. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
22. NSFW
By: Isabel Kaplan
3.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively readable―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
23. A Touch of Jen
By: Beth Morgan
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
24. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
25. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
26. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
27. Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
3.83
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
28. Other People's Clothes
By: Calla Henkel
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive debut with a wicked sense of humor in which two American ex-pats obsessed with the Ama… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
29. Cover Story
By: Susan Rigetti
3.71
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can, a captivating novel abou… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
30. Under the Influence
By: Noelle Crooks
3.43
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable debut following a young wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
31. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
