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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • FUNNY STORY
    FUNNY STORY
    EMILY HENRY
    "A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love ...
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    Q. 190

  • 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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  • 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 BALL AT VERSAILLES
    THE BALL AT VERSAILLES
    STEEL, DANIELLE
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Four American debutantes attend a renowned Paris cotillion in Danielle Steel’s captivating new novel.It’s the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Fou...
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    Q. 210

  • 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

  • THE PREMONITION
    THE PREMONITION
    YOSHIMOTO, BANANA
    The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truthYayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something import...
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    Q. 250

  • THE GOODBYE CAT
    THE GOODBYE CAT
    ARIKAWA, HIRO
    In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven cats weave their way through their owners’ lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa.Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a ki...
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    Q. 250

  • BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN
    BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN
    KNOLL, JESSICA
    Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll—author of the bestselling novel Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaption starring Mila Kunis—delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sor...
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    Q. 180

  • HAPPINESS FALLS
    HAPPINESS FALLS
    ANGIE KIM
    "We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything-which is why she isn't initially concerned when her ...
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    Q. 170

  • DEAD MOUNTAIN
    DEAD MOUNTAIN
    DOUGLAS PRESTON / LINCOLN CHILD
    #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, who investigate a mystery so enigmatic it may have no solution. In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, ...
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  • THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
    THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
    JAMES MCBRIDE
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINEONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023"A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing." --Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review"We all need...
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    Q. 290

  • THE LITTLE VILLAGE OF BOOK LOVERS
    THE LITTLE VILLAGE OF BOOK LOVERS
    GEORGE,NINA
    A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the “bona fide international hit” (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris BookshopIn Nina George’s New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create a ...
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    Q. 290

  • THE HUMANS
    THE HUMANS
    HAIG, MATT
    THERE'S NO PLANET LIKE HOMEAfter an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, e...
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    Q. 140

  • THE CENTRE
    THE CENTRE
    SIDDIQI, AYESHA MANAZIR
    A New York Times Editors' Choice - An Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense"The most fascinating debut I've read in years--enigmatic, biting, absurd, and right when you think you've got it figured out, utterly horrifying." --Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall and The Shape of Water (with Guillermo del Toro)"A gripping, surreal myst...
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    Q. 280

  • WANDERLUST
    WANDERLUST
    ELLE EVERHART
    People We Meet on Vacation meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling debut romantic comedy about two near strangers—and complete opposites—who win a radio contest for a trip around the world.Love's about to take flight. Feeling stuck at work and tired of London’s dreary weather, magazine writer Dylan Coughlan impulsively rings a radio station one day only to win a once-in-a-li...
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    Q. 120

  • THE POET'S HOUSE
    THE POET'S HOUSE
    JEAN THOMPSON
    In this warm and witty story, a young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers. Carla is stuck. In her twenties and working for a landscaper, she's been told she's on the wrong path by everyone--from her mom, who wants her to work at the hospital, to her boyfriend, who is dropping not-so-subtle hints that she should be doing something...
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    Q. 190

  • THE RACHEL INCIDENT
    THE RACHEL INCIDENT
    O'DONOGHUE, CAROLINE
    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three"If you've ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you've ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time...In short,...
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    Q. 290

  • LAPVONA
    LAPVONA
    MOSHFEGH, OTTESSA
    An Instant New York Times Bestseller!“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don’t wa...
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    Q. 130

  • YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY
    YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY
    EMEZI, AKWAEKE
    A Good Morning America Buzz Pick“A love story like no other, and this one…will have you gripped from page one.” —Vogue“An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this “rivetin...
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    Q. 180