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  • AN UNLASTING HOME
    AN UNLASTING HOME
    MAI AL-NAKIB
    So fresh and unsettling that it will enchant you from the first page and linger for days after reading...Its epic family saga style echoes that of Hala Alyan's Salt Houses and The Arsonists' City, Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies, and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko. -- Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having returned to Kuwait from ...
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  • CORONATION YEAR
    CORONATION YEAR
    JENNIFER ROBSON
    The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal historical novel-- as the lives of three very different residents of London's historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a moo...
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    Q. 210

  • HER LOST WORDS
    HER LOST WORDS
    STEPHANIE MARIE THORNTON
    From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends—a mother and daughter—discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton.1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author...
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    Q. 180

  • THE GREAT RECLAMATION
    THE GREAT RECLAMATION
    RACHEL HENG
    Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and countryAh Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend h...
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    Q. 170

  • SEA CHANGE
    SEA CHANGE
    GINA CHUNG
    A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An enchanting novel about Ro, a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back to stable shores with the help of a giant Pacific octopus at the mall aquarium where she works.“Immersively beautiful.... A kaleidoscope of originality." —Weike Wang, acclaimed author of Joan is OkayRo is stuck. She's just entered ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE CARTOGRAPHERS
    THE CARTOGRAPHERS
    PENG SHEPHERD
    "The Cartographers is one of those brilliant books you have to read twice." -- Washington Post"There are echoes of Borges and Bradbury, Pynchon and Finian's Rainbow, but Ms. Shepherd's exhilarating and enjoyable work casts a magical glow all its own." -- Wall Street JournalFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman w...
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    Q. 210

  • GOOD INTENTIONS
    GOOD INTENTIONS
    KASIM ALI
    "Absorbing, compelling, and beautifully written. Its ending brought me close to tears." --Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The FlatshareThe Big Sick meets Nick Hornby in Kasim Ali's debut novel about a young man who has hidden a romance from his parents, unable to choose between familial obligation and the future he truly wants.If love really is a choice, how do you decide w...
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    Q. 190

  • AMERICAN MERMAID
    AMERICAN MERMAID
    JULIA LANGBEIN
    A brilliantly funny debut novel that follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations."Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world." —Madeline Miller, bestselli...
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    Q. 190

  • DUST CHILD
    DUST CHILD
    QUE MAI, NGUYEN PHAN
    From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Vi?t Nam.In 1969, sisters Trang and Qu?nh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become “bar girls” in Sài Gòn, drinking, flirti...
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    Q. 290

  • THE GREAT PASSION
    THE GREAT PASSION
    JAMES RUNCIE
    From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too mu...
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    Q. 190

  • THE KING IS DEAD
    THE KING IS DEAD
    TEVIS, WALTER
    For the first time ever, a complete collection of short fiction the New York Times bestselling author of The Queen's GambitWalter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall novels and his brilliant rendering of the world of competitive chess. This long overdue collection establishes Tevis's rightful place as a maestro of the short form, as well. Bringing ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE LOVE SCRIBE
    THE LOVE SCRIBE
    AMY MEYERSON
    From the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays comes a charming novel about a woman with a special gift--her stories help people fall in love.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e When Alice's best friend, Gabby, is reeling from a breakup, Alice writes her a heartfelt story to cheer her up. While reading it in a café, Gabby, as if by magic, meets the ma...
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    Q. 290

  • WESTERN LANE
    WESTERN LANE
    CHETNA MAROO
    Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her...
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    Q. 200

  • FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN
    FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN
    COSIMANO, ELLE
    From USA Today bestseller and Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun—the hilarious and heart-pounding next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series."Fresh, heartfelt and witty, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun is a twisty page-turner, and its relatable heroine Finlay Donovan is irresistible!" —Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling aut...
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    Q. 280

  • FIGHT NIGHT
    FIGHT NIGHT
    MIRIAM TOEWS
    "Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv." -USA Today, "Best Books of the Year""Toews is a master of dialogue." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice"A revelation." -Richard RussoNPR Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist * Indie Next Pick * A...
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    Q. 190

  • MARGOT
    MARGOT
    WENDELL STEAVENSON
    It’s the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family’s sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather’s steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her—to forego education and marry well—but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fi...
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    Q. 300

  • RECOVERY ROAD
    RECOVERY ROAD
    CHRISTINE FEEHAN
    A broken man finds a woman worth living for in the new novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s Torpedo Ink motorcycle club series.Kir “Master” Vasiliev doesn’t care whether he lives or dies. He’s a burnt-out shell with no one and nothing but his club. Whatever Torpedo Ink needs, Master will put himself in harm’s way time after time. If he doesn’t make i...
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    Q. 100

  • FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK
    FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK
    ALBA DE CÉSPEDES
    “Powerful.” —The New Yorker“Brilliant.” —The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." —NPR“Forceful, clear and morally engaged.” —The Washington Post“Subversive.” —The New York Times Book Review "An exquisite, tormented howl." —The Financial Times"Quick, propulsive, and addictive." —Los Angeles Review of Books “Gripping.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune“A remarkable story.” —Publisher’s Week...
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    Q. 270

  • FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS 'EM DEAD
    FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS 'EM DEAD
    COSIMANO, ELLE
    A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!From Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead—the hilarious and heart-pounding follow-up to Finlay Donovan is Killing It."Cosimano skillfully combines suspense and laughs in the manner of Janet Evanovich’s early (and best) novels, finished off with a metafictional twist."—New York Times Book Review"A funny and smart, twisty ...
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    Q. 120

  • OLD BABES IN THE WOOD
    OLD BABES IN THE WOOD
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect. The two intrepid...
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    Q. 310

  • LIBERATION DAY
    LIBERATION DAY
    GEORGE SAUNDERS
    "The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismat...
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    Q. 190

  • DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP
    DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP
    YAGISAWA, SATOSHI / OZAWA, ERIC
    The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie--about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself--a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books.Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence--until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually a...
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    Q. 140

  • NOW YOU SEE US
    NOW YOU SEE US
    JASWAL, BALLI KAUR
    Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes a wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own."Tender and heartfelt, Now You See us also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny. An uplifting story of courage and...
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  • SO LATE IN THE DAY
    SO LATE IN THE DAY
    CLAIRE KEEGAN
    "Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long ...
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    Q. 210

  • THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES
    THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES
    UMRIGAR,THRITY
    An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick HonorWhen Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his distance from her. Years later, he returns to Bombay, planning to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl--and to s...
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  • NINETEEN STEPS
    NINETEEN STEPS
    MILLIE BOBBY BROWN
    Emmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN's debut novel, Nineteen Steps, is a moving tale of love, longing, and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II."My inner history-loving teenage geek clapped her hands in ecstasy at the thought of a historical novel penned by Enola Holmes, and she wasn't disappointed!"--Kate QuinnLove ...
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    Q. 305

  • ATHENA'S CHILD
    ATHENA'S CHILD
    HANNAH LYNN
    The story of Medusa, history's most infamous monster—and the men who made her into oneGifted and burdened with stunning beauty, young Medusa seeks sanctuary with the Goddess Athena. But when she catches the eye of the lecherous but mighty Poseidon, she is beyond protection. Powerful men rarely answer for their actions, after all.Meanwhile, Perseus embarks on a seemingly impossi...
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  • THE RADCLIFFE LADIES' READING CLUB
    THE RADCLIFFE LADIES' READING CLUB
    JULIA BRYAN THOMAS
    For readers of Martha Hall Kelly and Beatriz Williams, "a story of female freedom and constraints that doesn't shy away from the trauma--and joy--that faced U.S. women"(Kirkus) during a pivotal period in American history.Literature impacts us all uniquely -- but also unites us.Massachusetts, 1954. Alice Campbell escapes halfway across the country and finds herself in front of a...
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    Q. 180

  • THE VULNERABLES
    THE VULNERABLES
    SIGRID NUNEZ
    The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection“I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez’s novels. I find them ideal. They are short, wise, provocative, funny — good and strong company.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“With the intimacy ...
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    Q. 180

  • KAIROS
    KAIROS
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos--an unforgettably compelling masterpiece--tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fif...
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