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A Novel
by Maria Semple
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by Fran Fabriczki
Published Apr 2026
Read ReviewsA fresh and witty debut about a young immigrant mother and her increasingly inquisitive daughter, who wakes up one day and decides to find out who her father is.
by Bonnie Garmus
Published Apr 2025
Read ReviewsA must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a "formidable, unapologetic and inspiring" (Parade) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is "irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel. It reminds you that change takes time and always requires heat" (The ...
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsA finely observed, timely exploration of marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition from one of the most exciting writers working today.
by Jonathan Evison
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsLawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.
by Nancy Pearl
Published Jul 2018
Read ReviewsFrom "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotionally riveting debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.
by Benjamin Ludwig
Published Dec 2017
Read ReviewsTold in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character.
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Awardan irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary marriage, and an unforgettable family, with wit, humor, and deep affection.
by Elizabeth McKenzie
Published Nov 2016
Read ReviewsAn exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
by Jonathan Evison
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsPart dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother/daughter relationship, Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at its center.
by Iona Grey
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsAn accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story.
by Graeme Simsion
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsThe highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Rosie Project, starring the same extraordinary couple now living in New York and unexpectedly expecting their first child. Get ready to fall in love all over again.
by Robert Boswell
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsIn Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsMeet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsOne of BookBrowse's Top 3 Favorite Books of 2009.
Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history - the internment of American-Japanese families during World War II - Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us about forgiveness and the power of the human heart.
by Dan Simmons
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsThe men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph; part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, they set out in the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage. Years later, trapped in a landscape of encroaching ice and darkness, endlessly cold, and with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive as an ...
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
by Ayelet Waldman
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsWith wry candor and tender humor, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.
by Augusten Burroughs
Published Jun 2003
Read ReviewsThe true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.
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