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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria E. Schwab
Published Aug 2026
Read ReviewsFrom V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
by Florence Knapp
Published Apr 2026
Read ReviewsThe extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
by Francis Spufford
Published Mar 2026
Read ReviewsA spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz—from "one of our most powerful writers of wayward historical fiction" (The Washington Post).
by Kate Atkinson
Published May 2023
Read ReviewsThe #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War--a city fizzing with money, glamour, and corruption--in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria E. Schwab
Published Apr 2023
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2020 BookBrowse Fiction Award
In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force.
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
by Donna Freitas
Published Apr 2022
Read ReviewsA deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother--and the many ways that life can surprise us.
by Brit Bennett
Published Oct 2017
Read ReviewsA dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community - and the things that ultimately haunt us most.
by Sharon Guskin
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsNoah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.
by Lissa Evans
Published Jul 2016
Read ReviewsPaper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.
by Kate Atkinson
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsThe stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn).
by Erin Lindsay McCabe
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsI Shall Be Near To You is the intimate story of the drama of marriage, one woman's amazing exploits, and the tender love story that can unfold when two partners face life's challenges side by side.
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsVásquez is "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature," according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most contemporary novel to date, a masterpiece that takes his writing - and will take his literary star - even higher
by Roddy Doyle
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFour generations of women travel on a midnight car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one of them is driving, and one of them is just starting out. Perfect for thoughtful middle-graders and young teen girls.
by David Levithan
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsIn his New York Times bestselling novel, David Levithan introduces readers to what Entertainment Weekly calls a "wise, wildly unique" love story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.
by Lionel Shriver
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsUsing a playful parallel-universe structure,The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.
by Bem Le Hunte
Published Mar 2004
Read ReviewsBoth magical and utterly compelling, this spellbinding novel interweaves family sagas with the richness of Indian mysticism, creating an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family.
by Pete Hamill
Published Nov 2003
Read ReviewsThis unforgettable novel tells the epic tale of an extraordinary Irishman who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains... forever.
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