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Good for readers who like funny, relatable women’s fiction about fresh starts, self-discovery, and starting over at almost 50.
The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything
Romance · Literary Fiction · RomCom · Women's Fiction
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A Kindle Top 5 read from the million copy bestselling queen of romantic comedy, a hilarious story of a fed-up wife who impulsively leaves her comedian husband and smug neighborhood behind to rediscover her true self, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 6,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like funny, relatable women’s fiction about fresh starts, self-discovery, and starting over at almost 50.
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The million copy bestselling queen of romantic comedy is back with this laugh-out-loud and heart-warmingly relatable tale of a woman who has had enough
Being married to a comedian is no joke.
Kate is sick of it. Sick of being a wife, cook, dog walker and flat-pack assembler, while still being treated like a doormat. Her husband all but ignores her – unless he needs a clean shirt – and she’s constantly compelled to keep up with the (very smug) Joneses in their neighbourhood.
What happened to the fun-loving woman she used to be? At almost 50, Kate feels lost, overlooked and stuck. That is, until she comes home to one of her husband's impromptu parties – and is expected to feed their hungry guests.
And that’s it. Breaking point. The final straw.
Scrambling out of the bathroom window, Kate leaves. She has no money, no clean pants, and no plan – but a chance encounter sees her following her heart for once. And now there’s no going back…
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For readers who like contemporary fiction about friendship, identity, community, and messy adulthood.
Boys Come First
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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After a layoff and breakup, Dominick Gibson returns to Detroit, where he and his friends Troy and Remy navigate dating, career pressure, family conflict, friendship, and a city changing around them. Boys Come First follows Black gay millennial life through group chats, hookups, real estate deals, and self-discovery, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like contemporary fiction about friendship, identity, community, and messy adulthood.
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Three Black gay millennial men look for love, friendship, and professional success in the Motor City in this hilarious and touching debut novel.
Suddenly jobless and single after a devastating layoff and a breakup with his cheating ex, advertising copywriter Dominick Gibson flees his life in Hell's Kitchen for a fresh start in his hometown of Detroit. He's got one objective—exit the shallow dating pool ASAP and get married by thirty-five—and the deadline's approaching fast.
Meanwhile, Dom's best friend, Troy Clements, an idealistic teacher who never left Michigan, finds himself at odds with all the men in his life: a troubled boyfriend he's desperate to hold onto, a perpetually dissatisfied father, and his other friend, Remy Patton. Remy, a rags-to-riches real estate agent known as "Mr. Detroit," has his own problems—namely choosing between making it work with a long-distance lover or settling for a local Mr. Right Now who's not quite Mr. Right. And when a high-stakes real estate deal threatens to blow up his friendship with Troy, the three men must figure out how to navigate the pitfalls of friendship and a city that seems to be changing overnight.
Full of unforgettable characters, Boys Come First is about the trials and tribulations of real friendship, but also about the highlights and hiccups—late nights at the wine bar, awkward Grindr hookups, workplace microaggressions, situationships, frenemies, family drama, and of course, the group chat—that define Black, gay, millennial life in today's Detroit.
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For readers who like feminist horror, speculative short stories, body horror, and strange literary fiction.
Salt Slow
Literary Fiction · Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Thriller
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Winner of The White Review Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, salt slow explores women’s experiences through bodily transformation, strange appetites, sleepless cities, monstrous fandom, and unsettling mythology, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 700 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like feminist horror, speculative short stories, body horror, and strange literary fiction.
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Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link.
In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirls following their tour turn into something monstrous. After their parents remarry, two step-sisters, one a girl and one a wolf, develop a dangerously close bond. And in an apocalyptic landscape, a pregnant woman begins to realize that the creature in her belly is not what she expected.
Blending elements of horror, science fiction, mythology, and feminism, salt slow is an utterly original collection of short stories that are sure to dazzle and shock, heralding the arrival of a daring new voice.
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Good for readers who like witchy novellas, cozy magical stakes, and established couples.
Spell of the Witch
Literary Fiction · Romantasy · Magical Realism · Paranormal Romance
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Faith Townsend-McCormick’s busy life in Keating Hollow starts to unravel when Hunter gains an evil secret admirer and trouble spreads through her beloved spa. In Spell of the Witch, Faith suspects another witch has cursed her family and business, leaving her to find the saboteur before she loses both. Good for readers who like witchy novellas, cozy magical stakes, and established couples.
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Faith Townsend-McCormick has a wonderfully busy life with her husband Hunter and their four kids. When she isn’t working at her beloved spa, she’s chasing her triplets around and cheering on their fourteen-year-old as she pursues her dream of acting at the local theatre. But when Hunter suddenly has an evil secret admirer and everything starts to go wrong at the spa, Faith suspects another witch has cursed her and her business. Now she needs to find the saboteur and reverse the curse before it’s too late to save her spa and her husband from the wicked witch of Keating Hollow.
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Good for readers who want romantic suspense with guarded characters, family secrets, and a haunted-house edge.
Lead Me Home
Literary Fiction · Romance · Romantic Suspense · Women's Fiction
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Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people, but a stolen car brings former FBI agent Nate Warren into her ordered life in Lead Me Home. As their chemistry grows, Luna’s manipulative mother returns with a dangerous man and unresolved trauma that threaten the safety she built. Good for readers who want romantic suspense with guarded characters, family secrets, and a haunted-house edge.
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When spreadsheets are safer than people, falling in love becomes the ultimate risk in this powerful novel of trauma, healing, and unexpected courage from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee.
Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people—and for good reason. As a forensic accountant who specializes in exposing fraud, she knows numbers never deceive, unlike the toxic family she’s spent a lifetime trying to escape. Now living in her grandmother’s Victorian home, Luna has built a carefully ordered life behind walls she thought were unbreakable.
When her car is stolen from an airport parking lot, former FBI agent turned PI Nate Warren steps in to help—and proves more dangerous to her defenses than any thief. Despite Luna’s ironclad rules about mixing business with pleasure, their chemistry ignites, and for the first time, she considers letting someone past her guard. But just as their relationship begins to blossom, Luna’s manipulative mother arrives unannounced, dragging with her a dangerous man and decades of unresolved trauma that threaten everything Luna has built.
Now Luna must confront the ghosts of her past—both metaphorical and possibly literal, as strange occurrences in her historic home suggest she’s not alone. With a violent threat looming and her heart on the line, Luna discovers that sometimes the hardest person to trust is yourself.
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Good for readers who like music-scene drama, band tension, romance, and ambition with personal costs.
L.A. Dreams
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Romance
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Called “one of my favorites that I have read so far this year” by ReadersFavorite.com, L.A. Dreams follows Cory Scott as his rising 1990s Los Angeles rock band chases fame while love, obsession, addiction, and fractured loyalties threaten everything they have built, with a 3.8-star rating from 65 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like music-scene drama, band tension, romance, and ambition with personal costs.
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The characters have that gritty feel of bands like Motley Crue and Aerosmith but with a modern-day Maroon 5 feel.
L.A. Dreams has quickly become one of my favorites that I have read so far this year. ReadersFavorite.com
Choosing what I loved the most about this book is a difficult decision to make. This is because I literally loved every bit of it. OnlineBookClub.org
Los Angeles. 1993.
One band chasing rock-and-roll immortality…
and one man about to lose everything for it.
The parties are wild, the music is loud, and one rising band is chasing rock-and-roll immortality.
For twenty-seven-year-old Cory Scott, success isn’t optional—it’s a promise. His best friend died believing their band, Suicide King, would make it. Cory will do whatever it takes to prove he was right.
When legendary music producer Alexandra Blake agrees to produce their debut album, the dream finally feels within reach.
All Cory has to do is keep the band together long enough to record it.
Simple… until he meets Alexandra.
Suddenly the music isn’t the only thing pulling at him.
While Cory becomes consumed by his growing obsession with Alexandra, his band begins to fracture. Jesse’s relationship is falling apart. Trent’s drug use is spiraling out of control. And the dream they’ve sacrificed everything for is hanging by a thread.
As Cory falls deeper in love—and Alexandra falls for him—the choice he’s been avoiding becomes impossible to ignore.
When everything finally crashes down, Cory must decide what matters most:
the band that depends on him,
the dream he promised to fulfill,
or the woman he can’t live without.
L.A. DREAMS is a powerful story about friendship, ambition, love, and the price of chasing fame in the unforgettable 1990s Los Angeles music scene.
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Good for readers who want contemporary YA about self-acceptance, complicated girlhood, and the painful conditions people place on love.
What Girls Are Made Of
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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A 2017 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Finalist, What Girls Are Made Of follows sixteen-year-old Nina Faye after heartbreak leaves her questioning love, desire, and what makes her worthy, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want contemporary YA about self-acceptance, complicated girlhood, and the painful conditions people place on love.
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A 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina believed her. Now she'll do anything for the boy she loves, to prove she's worthy of him. But when he breaks up with her, Nina is lost. What is she if not a girlfriend? What is she made of? Broken-hearted, Nina tries to figure out what the conditions of love are.
"Finally, finally, a book that is fully girl, with all of the gore and grace of growing up female exposed." —Carrie Mesrobian, author of the William C. Morris finalist, Sex & Violence
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Good for readers who want adventurous historical fiction about ambition, secrecy, medicine, and gender barriers.
A Girl with a Knife
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Winner of the Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Contest, A Girl with a Knife follows Ella Parker, a young woman in early 19th-century England who disguises herself as a man to study medicine after a ship surgeon recognizes her talent, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want adventurous historical fiction about ambition, secrecy, medicine, and gender barriers.
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Winner of the Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Contest
Finalist for the Goethe Award in Late Historical Fiction
Women could not be surgeons. She did it anyway.
After the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a cruel attack by her drunken father, Ella Parker decides that dishonesty is fine when it serves her needs. At a time when wealthy young ladies do little more than embroidery, Ella escapes her luxurious but lonely life, and meets an eccentric ship surgeon who—once she impresses him with her quick-thinking and empathy—allows her to assist him during a surgery.
Compelled by Ella’s intelligence and interest in medicine, the doctor prepares her for a medical career, but there’s a catch: in early 19th century England, women are not accepted into universities. To fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, Ella must disguise herself as a young man with aspirations of becoming a doctor. After changing her look and name, Ella finds her footing as she performs dissections, conducts experiments, and cares for patients. She also tutors Oli, a kind but struggling fellow student, but she must take caution. Even in her loneliest moment, she cannot trust anyone or make friends.
As Ella continues to excel in her studies, brilliantly saving the life of a patient, she becomes a top contender for the apprenticeship with a famed professor. Dogged by fear of discovery, she must choose between truth and lies, and distinguish between real and false friends, before her pretense is uncovered.
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Good for readers who want family drama, legal tension, and questions of guilt shaped by misunderstanding.
House Rules
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Domestic Fiction
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Called “complex, compassionate, and smart” by The Washington Post, House Rules follows Jacob Hunt, a teen with Asperger’s whose fascination with forensic analysis draws police attention after a murder rocks his small town, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 12,200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want family drama, legal tension, and questions of guilt shaped by misunderstanding.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and the modern classics My Sister’s Keeper, The Storyteller, and more, comes a “complex, compassionate, and smart” (The Washington Post) novel about a family torn apart by a murder accusation.
When your son can’t look you in the eye…does that mean he’s guilty?
Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. He has a special focus on one subject—forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he’s always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he’s usually right.
But when Jacob’s small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. Jacob’s behaviors are hallmark Asperger’s, but they look a lot like guilt to the local police. Suddenly the Hunt family, who only want to fit in, are thrust directly in the spotlight. For Jacob’s mother, it’s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, it’s another indication why nothing is normal because of Jacob.
And for the frightened small town, the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder?
House Rules is “a provocative story in which [Picoult] explores the pain of trying to comprehend the people we love—and reminds us that the truth often travels in disguise” (People).
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Good for readers who like literary fiction built around family history, exile, and objects heavy with meaning.
Great House
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “Masterful…Evocative and moving” by NPR, Great House follows a mysterious desk connecting multiple narratives across time and space, from a Chilean poet's disappearance to Nazi plunder in Budapest, exploring themes of loss, memory, and inheritance, with a 3.9-star rating from more than 700 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like literary fiction built around family history, exile, and objects heavy with meaning.
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New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Award • Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • A Best Book of the Year as chosen by the New York Times (Notable), Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlantic, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Oregonian, and Book Page.
"Masterful…Evocative and moving." —NPR
For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.
Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared. Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?
Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.
"This is a novel about the long journey of a magnificent desk as it travels through the twentieth century from one owner to the next. It is also a novel about love, exile, the defilements of war, and the restorative power of language." —National Book Award citation
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A strong match for readers drawn to timeslip historical fiction, Scottish settings, ghost stories, and women reclaiming hidden histories.
The Three Witches
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Occult Horror
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Ruthie plays a witch in a "Macbeth" film but uncovers a restless spirit's secrets, while in 1050 Scotland, Isobel and her sisters face witchcraft accusations threatening their lives. The Three Witches has a 4.5-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to timeslip historical fiction, Scottish settings, ghost stories, and women reclaiming hidden histories.
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Utterly gripping historical fiction from bestseller Elena Collins - perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, Outlander and Weyward.
Now: When Ruthie gets the part of one of Macbeth’s famous three witches she can’t wait to get started. Inspired by the beauty of the film’s Scottish locations and the camaraderie of the cast and crew, she can leave behind the expectations of her family and her lacklustre love life, at least for now. But as echoes from the past begin whispering in Ruthie’s ear and a restless spirit draws her further into its centuries-old secrets, it soon becomes clear that only she can uncover the truth of a terrible injustice.
1050 Scotland: Isobel and her two sisters have learnt about healing from their loving mother Sidheag, and she in turn has kept them safe. But without the protection of their late father, Sidheag knows that her daughters must find husbands or their futures are at risk.
Isobel believes in love over duty and when she catches sight of King Macbeth’s stepson Lulach she can picture a happiness she had hardly dare imagine. But as heir to a Scottish throne that is drenched in blood, Lulach’s destiny is to be a warrior. When Isobel’s actions leave her and her sisters vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft there may be nothing that can keep the three women safe, not even the great Macbeth himself.
As the calls from the past grow ever louder, Ruthie has no choice. Macbeth’s witches have a story that needs to be told and the truth can no longer stay hidden…
Truly unforgettable timeslip historical fiction, perfect for fans of Emilia Hart, Clare Marchant and C.J. Cooke.
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A gentle fit for readers who like cozy fantasy, magical realism, found workplace worlds, and stories about healing through dreams.
The Dallergut Dream Department Store
Literary Fiction · Fantasy · Coming of Age · Cozy Fantasy · Magical Realism
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A #1 Korean bestseller, a magical store sells dreams, and a new employee discovers its secrets, bonding with unforgettable characters and exploring the power of imagination in The Dallergut Dream Department Store, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 700 Amazon reviewers. A gentle fit for readers who like cozy fantasy, magical realism, found workplace worlds, and stories about healing through dreams.
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THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.
What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who might you become when you wake up?
In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal shuffle in to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor specializes in a specific type of dream: childhood memories, food dreams, ice skating, dreams of stardom. Flying dreams are almost always sold out. Some seek dreams of loved ones who have died.
For Penny, an enthusiastic new hire, working at Dallergut is the opportunity of a lifetime. As she uncovers the workings of this whimsical world, she bonds with a cast of unforgettable characters, including Dallergut, the flamboyant and wise owner, Babynap Rockabye, a famous dream designer, Maxim, a nightmare producer, and the many customers who dream to heal, dream to grow, and dream to flourish.
A captivating story that will leave a lingering magical feeling in readers' minds, this is the first book in a bestselling duology for anyone exhausted from the reality of their daily life.
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