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Yeong-hye’s quiet act of defiance—renouncing meat—shatters the fragile order of her life.
The Vegetarian
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Yeong-hye’s quiet act of defiance—renouncing meat—shatters the fragile order of her life. As family members try to reassert control, their actions grow increasingly grotesque, pushing her to the brink of estrangement from everyone, including herself. Haunting and visceral, her journey explores the limits of autonomy, identity, and the cost of rebellion.
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Before the nightmares, Yeong-hye’s life was ordinary, defined by routine and control. But when vivid, violent dreams invade her mind, she decides to renounce meat—a seemingly small rebellion that disrupts her marriage and fractures her family.
Her husband and relatives see her defiance as a threat, escalating their efforts to dominate her choices. As Yeong-hye clings to her independence, their intrusions grow increasingly grotesque, turning her life into a battleground of will and identity.
Her mental and physical boundaries blur under the weight of their desperation, pushing Yeong-hye into an alienating and dangerous estrangement—not just from her family, but from herself.
As her rebellion spirals into obsession, the question remains: is she breaking free, or unraveling entirely?
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This is an intimate, emotionally intense read for readers drawn to raw grief and fractured healing.
History Is All You Left Me
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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Grief becomes its own kind of obsession in History Is All You Left Me, a young adult novel about love, loss, and the damage of holding on too tightly. After Theo’s death, Griffin spirals through heartbreak, compulsions, and buried secrets while clinging to the future he believed was still possible. This is an intimate, emotionally intense read for readers drawn to raw grief and fractured healing.
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"This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more."
—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything
From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past.
When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course.
To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral continues. He’s losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he’s been keeping are tearing him apart.
If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.
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This is an emotional second-chance romance for readers drawn to nostalgia, timing, and love shaped by regret.
Before We Were Strangers
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A single missed moment reopens a love story that never fully let go in Before We Were Strangers. When Matt spots the woman he lost fifteen years earlier, memories of their intense connection in New York come rushing back, along with everything that pulled them apart. This is an emotional second-chance romance for readers drawn to nostalgia, timing, and love shaped by regret.
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From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City.
To the Green-eyed Lovebird:
We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House.
You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.
We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other.
Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding…
I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.
After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?
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Beauty becomes a source of devastation in The Bluest Eye, a literary novel that examines longing, shame, and the violence of impossible ideals.
The Bluest Eye
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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Beauty becomes a source of devastation in The Bluest Eye, a literary novel that examines longing, shame, and the violence of impossible ideals. As Pecola Breedlove yearns for blue eyes and the acceptance she believes they would bring, her story reveals the emotional and cultural forces destroying her sense of self. This is a heartbreaking, incisive read shaped by pain, vulnerability, and loss.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.
“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”—The New York Times
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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Friendship becomes both refuge and reckoning over the course of a lifetime.
A Little Life
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Contemporary Fiction
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Friendship becomes both refuge and reckoning over the course of a lifetime. In A Little Life, four friends build their lives in New York, bound by ambition, loyalty, and their devotion to the enigmatic Jude. As years pass, love and success coexist with addiction and unresolved trauma. The novel offers an unflinching exploration of chosen family, endurance, and the lasting impact of suffering.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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This is an intimate, haunting read for readers drawn to atmosphere, restraint, and emotional devastation.
Never Let Me Go
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Something feels wrong long before the truth comes into view in Never Let Me Go, a quietly devastating literary novel shaped by memory, loss, and fate. As Kathy reflects on her years with Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham, the meaning of their sheltered upbringing slowly sharpens into something far darker. This is an intimate, haunting read for readers drawn to atmosphere, restraint, and emotional devastation.
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
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Grief reshapes a family long before anyone knows how to speak it.
You’d Be Home Now
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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Grief reshapes a family long before anyone knows how to speak it. In You’d Be Home Now, Emory navigates her junior year after a fatal car accident exposes her brother’s addiction and fractures their small town. As expectations close in and recovery proves uncertain, this contemporary young adult novel explores identity, loyalty, and the quiet weight of living in the shadow of crisis.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of Girl in Pieces comes a stunning novel that Vanity Fair calls “impossibly moving” and “suffused with light”. In this raw, deeply personal story, a teenaged girl struggles to find herself amidst the fallout of her brother's addiction in a town ravaged by the opioid crisis.
For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was.
Four months later, Emmy's junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident. Everyone's telling Emmy who she is, but so much has changed, how can she be the same person? Or was she ever that person at all?
Mill Haven wants everyone to live one story, but Emmy's beginning to see that people are more than they appear. Her brother, who might not be "cured," the popular guy who lives next door, and most of all, many "ghostie" addicts who haunt the edges of the town. People spend so much time telling her who she is--it might be time to decide for herself.
A journey of one sister, one brother, one family, to finally recognize and love each other for who they are, not who they are supposed to be, You'd Be Home Now is Kathleen Glasgow's glorious and heartbreaking story about the opioid crisis, and how it touches all of us.
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This is an emotionally charged romance for readers who want slow-burning tension, heartbreak, and the ache of unfinished timing.
A Love Letter to Whiskey
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Romance
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Some connections refuse to fade, no matter how often life pulls two people apart. In A Love Letter to Whiskey, Brecks and Jamie move through years of friendship, longing, and missed chances, bound by a love that never arrives at the right moment. This is an emotionally charged romance for readers who want slow-burning tension, heartbreak, and the ache of unfinished timing.
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From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Kandi Steiner comes this #BestofBookTok favorite - an angsty and powerful story of lovers continually fighting the curse of bad timing.
Brecks Kennedy has spent years writing the story of her life, but there’s one chapter that never quite closed… Jamie Shaw.
It all started with a jog, a clumsy collision, and an instant crush. But while B’s heart skipped a beat, Jamie’s eyes found her best friend instead. And just like that, her crush became her closest friend. Bound by shared moments of music, surfing, and secrets, their connection is undeniable, even as they desperately try to fight it.
But between college campuses, chance encounters, and stolen moments, fate has a way of bringing them together when they least expect it, time and time again.
As they wrestle with their feelings and the choices that have kept them apart, both B and Jamie must decide if they are finally willing to risk everything for the love that’s always been just out of reach. Sometimes, love isn’t about finding the right person, it’s about the moment when everything aligns. But what if that moment never comes?
Heart-wrenching and addictive, this is a story of love, loss, and the years it takes to finally get it right.
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Silence, grief, and suspicion shape every interaction in The Sea of Tranquility, a coming-of-age novel built on trauma and guarded connection.
The Sea of Tranquility
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Silence, grief, and suspicion shape every interaction in The Sea of Tranquility, a coming-of-age novel built on trauma and guarded connection. When Nastya arrives in a new town determined to bury her past, she forms an uneasy bond with Josh, a boy marked by loss. Their relationship drives a raw, emotionally intense story about pain, trust, and the fragile possibility of healing.
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Gone Girl meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this critically acclaimed novel about resilience, forgiveness, love, and second chances.
Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett.
Josh’s story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to.
The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
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In postwar Germany, Anna Klein juggles survival and motherhood while working for the Monuments Men.
The Roses Underneath
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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In postwar Germany, Anna Klein juggles survival and motherhood while working for the Monuments Men. When a stash of hidden art is uncovered, Anna’s talent for sleuthing—and her growing bond with a rebellious American captain—pulls her into a world of intrigue and possibility. In a time of upheaval, Anna must redefine her future.
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August 1945: Germany lies in ruins. Anna Klein, displaced and separated from her husband, fights to survive with her six-year-old daughter. Working as a typist for the US Army’s Monuments Men, she struggles to hold on to hope in a shattered world.
When Captain Henry Cooper enlists her as a translator, Anna discovers a hidden cache of priceless art. Her knack for sleuthing awakens a spark of purpose—and Cooper’s rebellious charm offers a glimpse of a freedom she’s never known.
As they delve into the art’s mysterious origins, Anna faces a choice: cling to the life she planned or embrace a new path filled with uncertainty and danger.
Will she uncover the truth, or will her newfound courage lead to unexpected consequences?
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Ideal for readers looking for literary fiction combining family, healing, mystery, and the possibility of magic.
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist, this novel follows graduate student Joanna Teale after a mysterious bruised child appears at her cabin claiming to come from the stars. Jo and her reclusive neighbor Gabe work to uncover the girl’s past as the three form an unexpected bond, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 6,200 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for literary fiction combining family, healing, mystery, and the possibility of magic.
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An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.
In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.
The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.
Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?
Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.
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Good for readers who like historical fiction about memory, complicity, moral reckoning, and late-life bravery.
All the Broken Places
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · World War 2
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Called a “powerful novel” by John Irving, All the Broken Places follows ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby, whose quiet London life is shaken when a young neighbor’s danger forces her to confront the guilt, grief, and secrets of her past in Nazi Germany, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 35,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like historical fiction about memory, complicity, moral reckoning, and late-life bravery.
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“You can’t prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel.” —John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp
“Exceptional, layered and compelling…This book moves like a freight train.” —Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of In Love
From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps.
Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can’t help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry’s beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel’s hard-won, self-contained existence.
All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel’s girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before—whatever the cost to herself….
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