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Ideal for readers who enjoy heartfelt contemporary fiction with imaginative storytelling, unusual friendships, and bittersweet choices.
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Budo has been eight-year-old Max Delaney’s imaginary friend for more than five years, but he knows his existence depends on Max continuing to believe in him. When a woman from Max’s school kidnaps the boy, Budo joins forces with other imaginary friends to rescue him, even if saving Max means disappearing forever. Ideal for readers who enjoy heartfelt contemporary fiction with imaginative storytelling, unusual friendships, and bittersweet choices.
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Imaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagination—the perfect read for anyone who has ever had a friend . . . real or otherwise
Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age, and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.
Max is different from other children. Some people say that he has Asperger's Syndrome, but most just say he's "on the spectrum." None of this matters to Budo, who loves Max and is charged with protecting him from the class bully, from awkward situations in the cafeteria, and even in the bathroom stalls. But he can't protect Max from Mrs. Patterson, the woman who works with Max in the Learning Center and who believes that she alone is qualified to care for this young boy.
When Mrs. Patterson does the unthinkable and kidnaps Max, it is up to Budo and a team of imaginary friends to save him—and Budo must ultimately decide which is more important: Max's happiness or Budo's very existence.
Narrated by Budo, a character with a unique ability to have a foot in many worlds—imaginary, real, child, and adult— Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend touches on the truths of life, love, and friendship as it races to a heartwarming . . . and heartbreaking conclusion.
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Best for readers who enjoy experimental literary fiction, speculative technology, and interconnected characters.
The Candy House
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller, this literary novel follows tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton and the people affected by his invention, which allows users to access and share their memories. Through interconnected stories, Jennifer Egan examines privacy, identity, and human connection in a world transformed by technology. Best for readers who enjoy experimental literary fiction, speculative technology, and interconnected characters.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • SLATE • THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!
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From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) speculative novel about memory, technology, privacy, and the quest for authenticity and human connection.
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share those memories in exchange for access others’—has seduced multitudes.
In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of interconnected narratives and narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving, speculative fiction testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.
“A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times).
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy coming-of-age mysteries, family secrets, and psychological suspense.
What Kind of Paradise
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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A national bestseller called “absorbing and well-crafted” by The Washington Post, this psychological suspense novel follows Jane, a teenager raised in isolation by her father in a Montana cabin during the 1990s. When she begins questioning the life he has built for them, she discovers that much of what she believed about her family may be untrue. This will appeal to readers who enjoy coming-of-age mysteries, family secrets, and psychological suspense.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this “absorbing and well-crafted” (The Washington Post) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.
“A mesmerizing blend of coming-of-age and psychological suspense, set against the birth of the internet age.”—People
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.
As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother’s death: San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.
In this sweeping, suspenseful novel from bestselling author Janelle Brown, we see a young woman on a quest to understand how we come to know ourselves. It is a bold and unforgettable story about parents and children; nature and technology; innocence and knowledge; the losses of our past and our dreams for the future.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction built around premonitions, family separation, regret, and the natural world.
About Grace
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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David Winkler sometimes dreams events before they happen, but when he dreams that his infant daughter will drown, he flees his family in an attempt to prevent the future he has seen. Years later, he begins a journey back toward the people he left behind, with a 3.8-star average from more than 2,600 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction built around premonitions, family separation, regret, and the natural world.
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The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, a luminous work of literary fiction and one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen—a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.
On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.
Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction with psychological mystery, old guilt, complicated relationships, and an unresolved death.
Road Longer Than Memory
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Road Longer Than Memory follows Sara Barlow as she returns to Arlington, Virginia, and is forced to confront an unsolved classmate's death, her sister's fatal accident, and memories she has tried to suppress. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction with psychological mystery, old guilt, complicated relationships, and an unresolved death.
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Sometimes the road home runs through everything you tried to forget
After a failed relationship and an unsettled teaching career, Sara Barlow returns to her childhood home in Arlington, Virginia, hoping for a fresh start. But when she applies for a job at her old high school, a chance glimpse into the gymnasium shakes her to the core—she spots the man she suspects was involved in a classmate's violent death a decade earlier.
Haunted by the past, Sara confronts the memories she's spent years trying to suppress: her sister Suzanne's fatal car crash, her secret summer with the reckless Devlin Barrie, and the anonymous 911 call she made after witnessing what she believes was a murder. As the construction of Interstate 66 physically fractures her community, Sara grapples with emotional fault lines of her own—guilt, silence, and buried truth.
Set against the backdrop of suburban upheaval in the 1970s and '80s, Road Longer Than Memory is a compelling story of memory, reckoning, and the cost of what we leave unsaid.
Perfect for fans of Tana French and William Kent Krueger
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Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
All That We See or Seem
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Psychological Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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All That We See or Seem follows former teenage hacker Julia Z as she risks her carefully hidden life to help find a kidnapped artist who creates shared dreams using AI. Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
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From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author Ken Liu, the first in a high-stakes sci-fi thriller series following an infamous hacker as she attempts to unravel a virtual reality mystery in the near future.
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at 14 as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
But when a lawyer named Piers barges into her life after his famous artist wife, Elli, was kidnapped by dangerous criminals, Julia decides she must help Piers and Elli. Nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees’ dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding his dreams in return for Elli.
Unraveling the real and unreal will lead Julia on an adventure that will take her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche in this fresh “marvel from a perennially innovative author” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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This will appeal to readers who want serious literary fiction built around moral complexity and intersecting lives.
The Elements
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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From bestselling author John Boyne, four interconnected narratives examine crime from the perspectives of the enabler, accomplice, perpetrator, and victim, following characters confronting guilt, trauma, blame, and redemption, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 6,300 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want serious literary fiction built around moral complexity and intersecting lives.
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From bestselling author John Boyne, a gripping and profound exploration of guilt, blame, trauma, and the human capacity for redemption.
In The Elements, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim.
The narrative follows a mother on the run from her past, a young soccer star facing a trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and a father on a transformative journey with his son. Each is somehow connected to the next, and as the story unfolds, their lives intersect in unimaginable ways.
Boyne’s most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving investigation of why and how we allow crime to occur. With masterful, spellbinding prose, he navigates this complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty. The story resonates on a deeply emotional level, challenging readers to confront their own conceptions of guilt and innocence at every step. Amid the wildly engrossing storytelling, the book ultimately asks: What would you do when faced with the unthinkable?
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Best for readers who like domestic suspense with toxic marriages, suburban secrets, unreliable women, obsession, and neighborhood darkness.
The Welcome Party
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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The Welcome Party follows Amanda Kensington, a woman trapped in a dangerous marriage, as a body in the lake draws together a wife, an investigating detective, and an obsessive newcomer in an exclusive lakeside community. Best for readers who like domestic suspense with toxic marriages, suburban secrets, unreliable women, obsession, and neighborhood darkness.
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A deliciously dark and twisty psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Last Mrs Parrish.
Amanda Kensington is trapped in a marriage to a charming, dangerous man. He’s told her he’ll kill her before he’ll divorce her – and she believes him. She’s been hiding the bruises for too long, and now she’s plotting her escape, one careful move at a time. But someone else is watching and playing a much more calculated game.
She’s just moved to their exclusive, lakeside community, and she’s driven, brilliant, and obsessively focused on Amanda’s life. On Amanda’s house. On Amanda’s husband.
She’s been watching them all for years.
As secrets surface along with a body in the lake, three women – the wife, the investigating detective, and the obsessive newcomer – are about to discover just how well they know their neighbors.
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Good for readers who want motherhood, female solidarity, domestic secrets, school scandals, and emotional suspense.
Things We Never Say
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Things We Never Say is a domestic thriller about three mothers whose PTA project leads to friendship, shared secrets, and a buried school scandal that could destroy their carefully managed lives, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want motherhood, female solidarity, domestic secrets, school scandals, and emotional suspense.
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Three mothers. Three secrets. One devastating scandal.
Anna has always been the quiet one, the soft-spoken mother who kept her head down and her secrets close. But when she's thrown together with Maggie and Rhea on a PTA project, they begin to bond over wine and gossip, and slowly share the truths behind their picture-perfect lives.
As a relationship therapist, Maggie is struggling with the painful, embarrassing reality of her floundering marriage. Rhea, despite her wealthy appearance, admits her troubled past could resurface and shatter her perfect world. But it’s Anna who harbors the darkest secret, hiding the reality of her home life to protect the reputation of her husband – the school headmaster.
When the three women stumble upon a scandal the school has gone to great lengths to bury, Anna is caught in an impossible dilemma. With the centennial gala approaching, she must decide how far she's willing to go to expose the truth. Because doing so could wreck all of their perfect lives in one instant…
In this gripping tale of scandal, deception, and female solidarity, three women discover the steep price of perfection and the unshakable strength of friendship. A riveting, emotional story that will captivate fans of Big Little Lies, Lucinda Berry and Jodi Picoult.
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A strong match for readers drawn to philosophical classics, psychological fiction, and hallucinatory literary journeys.
The Steppenwolf
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Called a classic that “sparkle[s] in new technicolor splendor” by Martin Puchner, The Steppenwolf follows Harry Haller, an isolated man caught between spiritual questioning, bourgeois society, and a surreal underground world of pleasure and self-discovery, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to philosophical classics, psychological fiction, and hallucinatory literary journeys.
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"Kurt Beals makes this 1927 classic of psychedelic dreams sparkle in new technicolor splendor. Talk to your doctor about possible side effects." —Martin Puchner, author of The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
This revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago.
The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller—better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. Harry becomes a man divided—lost in a surreal underground world of pleasure and set on a collision course with his innermost desires.
There has never been a translation that fully captures the essence of Hermann Hesse's own spiritual questioning until now. Kurt Beals restores the original meaning of this hallucinatory German tale in a recognizably modern voice. Beals's expert introduction traces the impact of The Steppenwolf for readers seeking meaning during the upheaval of world conflicts, the onslaught of new technologies, and life's uncertainties.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to locked-room thrillers, workplace secrets, survival pressure, and isolated settings.
One by One
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “an excellent mystery/suspense novel” by Stephen King, One by One follows a London tech start-up team trapped in a snow-covered French Alps chalet after a corporate retreat turns tense, an avalanche cuts them off, and the group begins to dwindle. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 19,100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to locked-room thrillers, workplace secrets, survival pressure, and isolated settings.
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“An excellent mystery/suspense novel that will remind you of Dame Agatha at her best.” —Stephen King
This instant New York Times bestseller and “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) from Ruth Ware follows a group of employees trapped on a snow-covered mountain.
Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide.
When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech start-up, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: presentations and strategy sessions broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. Even worse, one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit.
As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.
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Good for readers who like literary historical fiction about judgment, isolation, and contested truth.
Burial Rites
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Burial Rites follows Agnes, a woman charged with the murder of her former master and sent to an isolated Icelandic farm to await execution. As the family forced to house her begins to listen, they discover there is more to her story than the rumors suggest, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 17,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like literary historical fiction about judgment, isolation, and contested truth.
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes—charged with the brutal murder of her former master and sent to await execution on an isolated farm.
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.
Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.
Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
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