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After her teenage son commits a devastating school shooting, Eva writes to her estranged husband, confronting her guilt and the collapse of their family.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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After her teenage son commits a devastating school shooting, Eva writes to her estranged husband, confronting her guilt and the collapse of their family. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is a searing portrait of motherhood, violence, and denial, described by the Boston Globe as “impossible to put down.”
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Eva never wanted to be a mother, and she certainly never imagined raising a boy who would commit an unthinkable act of violence. Two years after her son Kevin killed seven classmates, a teacher, and a cafeteria worker, Eva writes to her estranged husband, searching for meaning in the wreckage of their family.
Through her confessions, a portrait emerges of guilt, denial, and the fragile bond between love and fear. Was Kevin’s brutality born from nature, nurture, or something darker? As Eva confronts her role in what happened, every word becomes both accusation and plea for understanding.
Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin remains a piercing study of motherhood, morality, and the haunting limits of responsibility.
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When single mother Birdie follows a mysterious man into Alaska’s mountains, she believes she’s found a new beginning.
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When single mother Birdie follows a mysterious man into Alaska’s mountains, she believes she’s found a new beginning. But the wilderness hides secrets, and love may not be enough to save her. Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child, is a haunting modern fairy tale of survival, wonder, and sacrifice.
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Love can lead us home. It can also lead us into the dark.
Birdie is doing her best to survive as a single mother in a rugged Alaskan town, raising her daughter Emaleen while waiting tables and dreaming of a freer life. When a quiet stranger named Arthur saves Emaleen after she wanders into the woods, Birdie feels drawn to him and the wild landscape he calls home.
Ignoring every warning, she follows him into the mountains, believing she has found her second chance. But the forest keeps its secrets, and Arthur is not what he seems.
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child, is a mesmerizing dark fairy tale of love, survival, and the dangerous beauty of the natural world.
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When Helen, her mother, and her grandmother reunite to care for her dying brother, old griefs and long-held silences resurface.
The Blackwater Lightship
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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When Helen, her mother, and her grandmother reunite to care for her dying brother, old griefs and long-held silences resurface. In 1990s Ireland, six lives entwine through love, anger, and reconciliation. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship is a quiet, powerful story of family, forgiveness, and the courage to begin again.
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In coastal Ireland in the early 1990s, three generations of women gather under one roof for the first time in years. Helen, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora have lived in silence and distance, each harboring old wounds that time has not softened. Now, as Helen’s brother Declan lies dying of AIDS, they must face both the weight of their past and the fragility of the present.
Together with Declan’s friends, they share laughter, grief, and long-buried truths, rediscovering what family can mean even at the edge of loss.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship is a luminous, compassionate novel about forgiveness, connection, and the power of love to bridge the unspoken.
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When Willow is born with brittle bones, her mother’s love becomes both her strength and her undoing.
Handle with Care
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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When Willow is born with brittle bones, her mother’s love becomes both her strength and her undoing. Faced with an impossible legal choice, Charlotte must decide how far she’ll go to protect her child. Handle with Care, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, is a shattering exploration of love, guilt, and the value of a life.
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When Willow O’Keefe is born with a rare bone disease, her parents’ world fractures under the weight of love and impossible choices. Charlotte and Sean devote themselves to their daughter’s care, counting every shatter and recovery, every sleepless night, every quiet miracle.
But when a legal and moral crossroads forces Charlotte to question whether Willow’s life might have been avoided, she must face an unbearable truth—how far can a mother go to protect the child she adores, even if it means rewriting the story of her birth?
Handle with Care is a powerful, provocative novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, exploring family, sacrifice, and the fragile line between devotion and despair.
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A New York Times bestseller, Oprah’s Book Club selection, and PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Behold the Dreamers follows Jende and Neni Jonga, a Cameroonian couple building a life in…
Behold the Dreamers
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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A New York Times bestseller, Oprah’s Book Club selection, and PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Behold the Dreamers follows Jende and Neni Jonga, a Cameroonian couple building a life in New York after Jende becomes chauffeur to a Lehman Brothers executive shortly before the financial collapse, with a 3.9-star average from more than 87,400 Goodreads ratings. Readers drawn to literary fiction about immigration, marriage, class, and the American Dream should find plenty to consider here.
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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy
New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future.
However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades.
When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
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The Library of Borrowed Hearts
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore (4.6 out of 5 stars), a struggling librarian discovers a decades-old romance scribbled in a rare book’s margins—and a link to her cranky neighbor’s past. Funny, tender, and brimming with heart, this uplifting story celebrates love, family, and the healing power of stories. Perfect for book lovers.
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Librarian Chloe Sampson has too much on her plate—three siblings to raise, bills piling up, and a job that barely keeps her afloat. Hope arrives in the form of a rare book from the 1960s, discovered tucked away on a dusty library shelf. But when her grumpy, reclusive neighbor Jasper offers a small fortune to buy it, Chloe’s curiosity outweighs her need for cash.
Inside the book’s margins, she finds a decades-old love story written in notes between two anonymous readers—one of whom may be Jasper himself. Her search for answers sparks an unexpected friendship, a literary scavenger hunt, and a reminder that stories never truly end.
Lucy Gilmore’s The Library of Borrowed Hearts is a witty, heartwarming ode to books, love, and second chances.
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In The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak (4.5 out of 5 stars), a modern woman’s journey mirrors the 13th-century bond between Rumi and his guide, Shams…
The Forty Rules of Love
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak (4.5 out of 5 stars), a modern woman’s journey mirrors the 13th-century bond between Rumi and his guide, Shams of Tabriz. Lyrical and soul-stirring, this international bestseller explores faith, transformation, and the healing power of love. A beautiful meditation on the unity of all hearts.
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Ella Rubenstein’s life looks picture-perfect from the outside, with a steady marriage, a quiet home, and predictable days. Inside, she’s suffocating. When she accepts a job reading manuscripts, her first assignment changes everything. Sweet Blasphemy, written by the mysterious Aziz Zahara, tells the story of Shams of Tabriz and his transformative meeting with the poet Rumi.
As Ella becomes absorbed in the novel’s lessons on divine love, she begins to see her own life reflected in Rumi’s spiritual awakening. Shams’s forty rules challenge everything she believes about love, faith, and freedom.
Across centuries and continents, two stories intertwine: a woman searching for meaning and a mystic guiding a poet toward transcendence. In Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love, love itself becomes liberation.
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Emily St.
Sea of Tranquility
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Time Travel
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, a New York Times bestseller and Best Book of the Year pick by NPR and The New York Times, weaves time travel, art, and love into a haunting mosaic. From 1912 forests to moon colonies, Mandel crafts a 4.4 out of 5 stars novel that is both intimate and cosmic in its scope.
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From the author of Station Eleven comes a breathtaking meditation on time, memory, and connection that spans centuries and worlds.
In 1912, exiled eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew wanders into a Canadian forest and hears something impossible: the faint strains of a violin inside an airship terminal. Two hundred years later, a celebrated author named Olive Llewellyn tours Earth with her own haunting book about a pandemic. And in the far future, detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts investigates an anomaly that links their lives across time.
What he discovers bends the limits of reality and reveals the fragile beauty of human existence.
Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility is a tender, time-spanning masterpiece about how love and art echo through the ages.
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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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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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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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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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