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  • DEATH VALLEY
    DEATH VALLEY
    MELISSA BRODER
    In Melissa Broder's astonishingly profound new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow--for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path discovered on a nearby hike.Out...
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    Q. 190

  • SMALL JOYS
    SMALL JOYS
    ELVIN JAMES MENSAH
    “This funny and bighearted debut is an ode to queer friendship and chosen family. . . . A tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy—big or small.”—BuzzFeedCould I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me?Harley is a young queer black man struggling to find his way in nineties Britain. Return...
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  • THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY
    THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY
    BOTHAYNA AL-ESSA / ABDELRAHMAN, RANYA / HUSSAIN, SAWAD
    A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret libraries, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government, from award-winning Kuwaiti author Bothayna Al-Essa. The newly-appointed censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, skimming for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--like allusions to queerness...
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    Q. 190

  • ROMANTIC COMEDY
    ROMANTIC COMEDY
    CURTIS SITTENFELD
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a “smart, sophisticated, and fun” (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.   “Full of dazzling banter and sizzling chemistry.”—People   “If you ever wanted a backstage pass to Saturday Night L...
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    Q. 130

  • THE WISHING GAME
    THE WISHING GAME
    MEG SHAFFER
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . . . a love letter to reading and the power that childhood ...
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    Q. 190

  • IN MEMORIAM
    IN MEMORIAM
    ALICE WINN
    A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.” —Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The MagiciansIt’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the fron...
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    Q. 140

  • EXPIRATION DATES
    EXPIRATION DATES
    SERLE,REBECCA
    From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation. Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name...
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    Q. 280

  • JAMES
    JAMES
    PERCIVAL EVERETT
    NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, AND OPRAH DAILYA brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the...
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    Q. 200

  • THE OTHER VALLEY
    THE OTHER VALLEY
    SCOTT ALEXANDER HOWARD
    A Goodreads Most Anticipated Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Book of 2024 For fans of Never Let Me Go and The Giver, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.Sixteen-year-old Odile is a...
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  • WANDERING STARS
    WANDERING STARS
    TOMMY ORANGE
    Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. ...
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    Q. 190

  • WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP
    WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP
    BO REUM, HWANG
    AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the MonthThe Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of AJ Fikry.Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a res...
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    Q. 300

  • I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU
    I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU
    REBECCA MAKKAI
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more“A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People "Spellbinding." —The New York Times Book Review"[An] irresistible literary page-turner." —The Boston GlobeT...
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    Q. 140

  • THE THREE OF US
    THE THREE OF US
    ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS
    Best Book of the Year Time • Real Simple • Oprah DailyA Belletrist Book Club Pick"As short and sharp as a pairing knife . . . Moves along so briskly and with such sly wit . . . Deliciously wicked." —Ron Charles, The Washington PostLong-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, to...
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    Q. 180

  • THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES
    THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES
    KASHIWAI, HISASHI
    The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. Bu...
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    Q. 200

  • MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR
    MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR
    FLORIN, DAISY ALPERT
    An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman’s final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos—and into an ill-advised affair with a married professor.It’s 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious...
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    Q. 190

  • THE TRUE LOVE EXPERIMENT
    THE TRUE LOVE EXPERIMENT
    CHRISTINA LAUREN
    Sparks fly when a romance writer and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the ultimate Hollywood love story—but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script—from the “divine” (Jodi Picoult) New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners.Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incred...
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    Q. 200

  • THE BOOK OF DOORS
    THE BOOK OF DOORS
    GARETH BROWN
    A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of darkness. Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee...
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    Q. 310

  • THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
    THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
    WALSH, ROSIE
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK“Gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.”—Laura Dave“A dazzling supernova of a book, it picks you up on line one and doesn't let you go until the very end.” —Lisa Jewell From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dar...
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    Q. 110

  • THE WOMEN
    THE WOMEN
    KRISTIN HANNAH
    An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing...
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    Q. 200

  • CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
    CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
    MELLORS, COCO
    The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city...
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    Q. 200

  • THE WRITING RETREAT
    THE WRITING RETREAT
    JULIA BARTZ
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Sex, suspense, and the supernatural fuel this propulsive debut.” —People A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding nightmare—in the vein of The Plot and Please Join Us.Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportuni...
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    Q. 180

  • YOUR UTOPIA
    YOUR UTOPIA
    BORA CHUNG
    **One of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024, and Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction of 2024** "Chung builds out her stories with imagination, absurdity and a dry sense of humor, all applied with X-Acto knife precision." -Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times Book Review From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh,...
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    Q. 200

  • ALL OF US STRANGERS [MOVIE TIE-IN]
    ALL OF US STRANGERS [MOVIE TIE-IN]
    TAICHI YAMADA
    Now a Major Motion Picture starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell.A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before...Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he's drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of f...
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    Q. 140

  • THE EMPUSIUM
    THE EMPUSIUM
    TOKARCZUK, OLGA
    "September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace?...
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    Q. 180

  • SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 1
    SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 1
    JAMES CLAVELL
    By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part One contains the first half of the complete novel...
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    Q. 260

  • SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 2
    SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 2
    JAMES CLAVELL
    By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete nove...
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    Q. 260

  • THE ARCHIVE OF FEELINGS
    THE ARCHIVE OF FEELINGS
    STAMM, PETER
    Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it’s not too late to live it.A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review).Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living i...
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    Q. 170

  • BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE (MOVIE TIE-IN)
    BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE (MOVIE TIE-IN)
    LEE CHILD
    The inspiration for season two of the hit streaming series Reacher! This thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series follows Jack Reacher as he plunges into a terrifying conspiracy.From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged...
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    Q. 110

  • NEVER
    NEVER
    FOLLETT KEN
    New York Times BestsellerThe new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it’s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.   “A compelling story, and only too realistic.” —Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary “Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.” So says Pauline Green, presiden...
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    Q. 140

  • THE HUNGER OF WOMEN
    THE HUNGER OF WOMEN
    MAROSIA CASTALDI / RICHARDS, JAMIE
    Rosa, midway through life, is alone. Her husband passed away long ago, and her cosmopolitan daughter is already out the door, keen to marry and move to the city. At loose ends, Rosa decides to transplant herself to the flat, foggy Lombardy provinces from her native Naples and there finds a way to renew herself—by opening a restaurant, and in the process coming to a new apprecia...
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    Q. 210