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by Curtis Sittenfeld
Published Mar 2024
Read ReviewsA comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.
by Celeste Ng
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2017 BookBrowse Fiction Award
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
by Liv Constantine
Published Jul 2018
Read ReviewsThe mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple," from a stunning new voice in psychological suspense.
by Brian Morton
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes.
by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Published Aug 2015
Read ReviewsA striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.
by Thrity Umrigar
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsA profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.
by Jessie Burton
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsEnchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.
by Julia MacDonnell
Published Mar 2015
Read ReviewsMimi Malloy, At Last! is an unforgettable novel, alive with humor, unexpected romance, and the magic of hard-earned insight: a poignant reminder that it's never too late to fall in love and that one can always come of age a second time.
by Siri Hustvedt
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsA brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.
by Chloe Aridjis
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsAsunder is a rich, resonant novel of beguiling depths and beautiful strangeness, exploring the delicate balance between creation and destruction, control and surrender.
by Tan Twan Eng
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsMalaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan.
by Francisco Goldman
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsCelebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in the summer of 2005. Two years later she died of a tragic accident. Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would have been.
by Marilynne Robinson
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsHome parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.
by Hillary Jordan
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsIt is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its ...
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