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Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice is a New York Times bestseller and Read With Jenna Book Club pick that celebrates resilience and hope.
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice is a New York Times bestseller and Read With Jenna Book Club pick that celebrates resilience and hope. Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, this 4.6 out of 5 stars debut follows Adunni, a Nigerian girl determined to get an education and speak for herself. Inspiring, heartbreaking, and unforgettable.
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Adunni is a fourteen-year-old girl in rural Nigeria with one dream: to find her “louding voice” and use it to change her life. She wants an education, a chance to choose her own future, and the freedom to speak for herself. But when poverty and loss force her into servitude, Adunni’s world narrows to survival.
Still, she refuses to be silent. Her courage and determination shine through cruelty, exploitation, and despair as she discovers allies in unexpected places and the strength within herself to keep fighting.
Abi Daré’s debut is both heartbreaking and luminous, a story of resilience, hope, and the power of self-belief.
Because sometimes the quietest girl carries the loudest voice of all.
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Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—recommended by PopSugar, Bustle, Booklist, and more—spotlights Mileva Maric, Einstein’s brilliant first wife and a physicist whose contributions to relativity remain debated.
The Other Einstein
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—recommended by PopSugar, Bustle, Booklist, and more—spotlights Mileva Maric, Einstein’s brilliant first wife and a physicist whose contributions to relativity remain debated. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Benedict delivers a riveting novel of love, ambition, and the erasure of women in science. With 4.2 out of 5 stars, it’s both inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Everyone knows Albert Einstein. But what about the woman who may have helped shape his most groundbreaking theories?
Mitza Maric is brilliant, determined, and entirely out of step with the expectations for women in the late 19th century. While most women her age are settling into marriage, Mitza studies physics at a Zurich university, battling peers who can’t stand to be outdone by her mind. Then she meets Albert Einstein—a fellow student who sees her brilliance, and perhaps something more.
Their connection sparks into both a romance and a partnership of ideas. Yet history only remembers his name. As ambition and ego collide with love and sacrifice, Mitza must decide: can one woman’s genius shine in a world determined to eclipse her?
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Kim Edwards’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter—a #1 New York Times bestseller—unfolds across 25 years of secrets, heartbreak, and resilience.
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Kim Edwards’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter—a #1 New York Times bestseller—unfolds across 25 years of secrets, heartbreak, and resilience. This acclaimed novel explores the ripple effects of one fateful choice, weaving parallel lives into a haunting family drama. With 4.1 out of 5 stars, it’s a poignant story of love, loss, and the ties that refuse to break.
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On a snowy night in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his own twins. One is healthy, the other born with Down syndrome. In a single, devastating moment, he makes a choice: he tells his wife their daughter died, entrusting the nurse to take the infant away. But the nurse cannot follow through—and instead raises the child herself.
Two families unfold in parallel: one bound by secrecy, the other by resilience. As years stretch into decades, lies fester beneath the surface, shaping every relationship in ways David never imagined. Love is tested, grief calcifies, and silence becomes a second prison.
When the truth finally surfaces, it threatens to shatter everything—or offer the redemption only honesty can bring.
How long can secrets stay buried?
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Best for readers who like West African-inspired YA fantasy, deadly contests, political unrest, ancient magic, and reluctant attraction.
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
People of Color · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Crown Princess Karina needs a king’s heart to resurrect her murdered mother, while refugee Malik must kill Karina to free his abducted sister. When Malik enters the competition for Karina’s hand, their secret missions and growing attraction put them on a collision course. Best for readers who like West African-inspired YA fantasy, deadly contests, political unrest, ancient magic, and reluctant attraction.
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The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction—from debut author Roseanne A. Brown. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Renée Ahdieh, and Sabaa Tahir.
For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.
But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic . . . requiring the beating heart of a king. And she knows just how to obtain one: by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia competition.
When Malik rigs his way into the contest, they are set on a heart-pounding course to destroy each other. But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir, will they be able to see their tasks to the death?
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Elizabeth Delozier’s Eleanore of Avignon is a spellbinding historical drama set during the Black Death.
Eleanore of Avignon
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Elizabeth Delozier’s Eleanore of Avignon is a spellbinding historical drama set during the Black Death. A Library Reads and Aardvark Book Club Pick, it follows a gifted midwife apprenticed to the pope’s physician who’s thrust into danger when Queen Joanna arrives in Avignon. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars rating, this tale brims with suspense, courage, and unforgettable characters.
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Provence, 1347. Eleanore Blanchet, a gifted midwife and herbalist, dreams of practicing her craft without fear. But she knows too well the danger of standing out. In Avignon, a woman’s talent can make her a target.
A chance meeting with Guigo de Chauliac, physician to Pope Clement, changes everything. As his apprentice, Elea learns the secrets of anatomy and surgery, blending them with her knowledge of folk medicine. Her skills soon place her at the center of history when the disgraced Queen Joanna arrives, pregnant and accused of murder, just as the Black Death reaches Europe.
As plague devours the city and whispers of witchcraft rise, Elea must risk her freedom, her life, and her heart to protect what she loves most.
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A husband vanishes from an ordinary morning, leaving behind a home that looks untouched and a marriage Catherine thought she understood.
When You Disappeared
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Suspense
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A husband vanishes from an ordinary morning, leaving behind a home that looks untouched and a marriage Catherine thought she understood. As she searches for answers, Simon stays hidden with truths that could destroy everything she believes about their life together. This psychological thriller draws its tension from betrayal, shifting perspectives, and the slow collapse of trust.
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All she wanted was the truth, but she’ll wish she never found out.
When Catherine wakes up alone one morning, she thinks her husband has gone for a run before work. But Simon never makes it to the office. His running shoes are by the front door. Nothing is missing—except him.
Catherine knows Simon must be in trouble. He wouldn’t just leave her. He wouldn’t leave the children.
But Simon knows the truth—about why he left and what he’s done. He knows things about his marriage that it would kill Catherine to find out. The memories she holds on to are lies.
While Catherine faces a dark new reality at home, Simon’s halfway around the world, alive and thriving. He’s doing whatever it takes to stay one step ahead of the truth.
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M. John Harrison’s The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again—winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and praised by Neil Gaiman, Russell T. Davies, and William Gibson—is a haunting, unsettling…
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Psychological Fiction · Suspense
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M. John Harrison’s The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again—winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and praised by Neil Gaiman, Russell T. Davies, and William Gibson—is a haunting, unsettling novel of conspiracies, drowned lands, and fractured lives. With a 4.1 out of 5 stars rating, this boundary-pushing masterpiece of literary fiction lingers long after the last page.
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Shaw is rebuilding his life after a breakdown. A rented room, a job on a crumbling London barge, and a fractured relationship with Victoria, a doctor’s daughter who grew up steeped in death. It isn’t much, but it’s enough—until shadows on the river begin whispering of conspiracies that feel less like theories and more like truth.
Victoria, meanwhile, is renovating her mother’s Midlands house. The neighbors are strange. The stories are stranger. A missing waitress. A pond no one dares approach. And an obsessive fascination with The Water Babies that runs like a curse through the town.
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is haunting, enigmatic, and brilliant—literary fiction that seeps under your skin.
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Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things is a profound blend of science fiction and spiritual meditation.
The Book of Strange New Things
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · First Contact · Speculative Fiction
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Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things is a profound blend of science fiction and spiritual meditation. Called “a masterpiece” by David Mitchell, it follows Peter, a missionary sent across galaxies, even as his wife struggles on a collapsing Earth. With a 4.2 out of 5 stars rating, this extraordinary novel explores faith, distance, and devotion.
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Peter is a man of faith, chosen for the mission of a lifetime. His calling takes him across galaxies, far from his wife Bea, to a world where the native population hungers for his teachings. To them, his Bible is the “book of strange new things.”
The planet is strange but welcoming. The work is vital. Yet as Peter grows closer to his congregation, Bea’s letters from Earth become increasingly dire. Natural disasters, collapsing governments, and crumbling faith plague a world falling apart. The distance between them grows wider with every message.
Torn between devotion to his mission and love for his wife, Peter faces a choice no scripture can resolve. This is a story of faith, sacrifice, and love stretched to breaking.
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Tom Sweterlitsch’s The Gone World is Inception meets True Detective—a mind-bending sci-fi thriller of time travel, murder, and humanity’s end.
The Gone World
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Time Travel
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Tom Sweterlitsch’s The Gone World is Inception meets True Detective—a mind-bending sci-fi thriller of time travel, murder, and humanity’s end. NCIS agent Shannon Moss investigates a SEAL’s vanished daughter and uncovers futures spiraling toward the Terminus, the cataclysmic extinction of mankind. With a 4.3 out of 5 stars rating, this chilling novel brims with tension and staggering scope.
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Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...
“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter
Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.
Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.
Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.
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An Oprah’s Book Club Pick and instant New York Times bestseller, Nathan Harris’ The Sweetness of Water is a “miraculous debut” (Washington Post).
The Sweetness of Water
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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An Oprah’s Book Club Pick and instant New York Times bestseller, Nathan Harris’ The Sweetness of Water is a “miraculous debut” (Washington Post). Set in Reconstruction-era Georgia, it follows two freed brothers, a grieving couple, and a forbidden love that fractures a town. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars rating, this epic blends beauty, terror, and hard-won hope.
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In The Sweetness of Water, the Civil War has ended, but peace is fragile and grief is everywhere.
Brothers Prentiss and Landry, newly freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, search for safety and a way forward. They find it on the farm of George and Isabelle Walker, a grieving couple who hire the brothers and forge an unlikely bond of hope.
But Old Ox is a town steeped in secrets and resentments. A forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers ignites scandal, violence, and murder, threatening to unravel fragile alliances.
As the community convulses with anger and loss, it is Isabelle who rises, offering a vision of healing when everything seems broken.
Nathan Harris delivers a luminous debut about love, resilience, and humanity’s fight to endure.
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A good pick for readers who want to return to Maguire's darker, revisionist version of Oz and follow the next generation after Elphaba.
Son of a Witch
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller, Liir is left for dead after the events of Wicked and must confront questions about his connection to Elphaba, his missing half-sister, and his place in a politically unstable Oz, with a 3.5-star average from more than 72,300 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who want to return to Maguire's darker, revisionist version of Oz and follow the next generation after Elphaba.
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The New York Times bestselling sequel to Wicked, the multimillion-copybestseller and basis for the #1 smash hit movie starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
When a Witch dies—not as a crone, withered and incapable, but as a woman in her prime, at the height of her passion and prowess—too much is left unsaid. What might have happened had Elphaba lived? Of her campaigns in defense of the Animals, of her appetite for justice, of her talent for magic itself, what good might have come? If every death is a tragedy, the death of a woman in her prime keenly bereaves the whole world.
Gregory Maguire returns to the world of Wicked and the land of Oz in this epic fantasy novel to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch.
A decade after the Witch has melted away, the young man Liir is discovered bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully. Shattered in spirit as well as in form, he is tended by the mysterious Candle, a foundling in her own right, until failed campaigns of his childhood bear late, unexpected fruit.
Liir's coming of age story is only one part of the world that Elphaba left behind. As a boy hardly in his teens, he is asked to help the needy in ways in which he may be unskilled. Is he Elphaba’s son? His quest for identity will determine if he has power of his own. Can he liberate Princess Nastoya into a dignified death? Can he locate his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in shackles in the Wizard’s protection? Can he survive in an Oz rife with political intrigue and little improved since the death of the Wicked Witch of the West? Can he learn to fly?
In Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire suggests that the magic we locate in distant, improbable places like Oz is no greater than the magic inherent in any hard life lived fully, son of a witch or no.
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A strong fit for readers who like family-centered contemporary fiction about mothers and daughters, estrangement, grief, and long-buried secrets.
Every Precious and Fragile Thing
Literary Fiction · Romance · Women's Fiction
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Called “a masterpiece” by Marilyn Simon Rothstein, Every Precious and Fragile Thing follows social worker Mallory Ward as she returns to her Rhode Island childhood home and tries to repair her strained relationship with her mother while a decades-old secret threatens their new trust, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 13,300 Amazon reviewers. A strong fit for readers who like family-centered contemporary fiction about mothers and daughters, estrangement, grief, and long-buried secrets.
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A mother and daughter try desperately to reconcile just as a decades-old secret threatens to shatter their relationship forever in this powerful story from the bestselling author of The Echo of Old Books.
For social worker Mallory Ward, working with at-risk youth is a calling. But when one of her clients is tragically killed, she finds herself at a crossroads. Despite long-held resentments toward her distant mother, Mallory retreats to her childhood home on the Rhode Island coast to contemplate her future. Instead, she’s confronted by her past, not only in the renewed tensions with her mother but in the unexpected appearance of a familiar face—and the wrenching losses that drove her away a decade ago.
Helen Ward’s home is filled with precious keepsakes from her patients, a testament to decades spent caring for the terminally ill. Her work has always come first, though, leaving little time to connect with her daughter. Over the years, the rift between them has become a chasm, so when Mallory appears unannounced, Helen sees it as an opportunity to repair their broken relationship.
But hidden among Helen’s mementos are the keys to her past…and a terrible secret that threatens to destroy the fragile new trust between them forever.
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