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Updated March 24, 2025
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Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives...but it's also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page....
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves "A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ―Emily St. John Mandel "RIVETING." &...
Dream State: A Novel
Eric Puchner
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "The story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying again....already one of the year's best." -People Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her...
The Jackal's Mistress: A Novel
Chris Bohjalian
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk...
The Antidote
Karen Russell
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five...
Count My Lies
Sophie Stava
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "The very definition of a page-turner! This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page." --Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author A read-in-one-night suspense...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto."--The New York Times "I can...
33 Place Brugmann
Alice Austen
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Alice Austen uses her considerable gifts to remind us that the past and the present are more connected than we wish to believe, and that vigilance, loyalty and art hold the key to survival. This is a beautiful and deeply engaging novel." -- Ann Patchett, #1...
Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley
Paper Book
AN INSTANT CANADIAN BESTSELLER A love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music. It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the...
The River Has Roots
Amal El-Mohtar
Paper Book
AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK! The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and...
The Unworthy: A Novel
Agustina Bazterrica
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. ...
The Women on Platform Two
Laura Anthony
Paper Book
In 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are strictly forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this sweeping, timely novel inspired by a remarkable and little-known true story. Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport...
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory."--People "Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious."--Miranda...
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com
Kimberly Lemming
Paper Book
Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien...
Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books
Kim Fay
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A highly original, heart-warming story of an extraordinary friendship." --Amy Poeppel, Award-Winning author of The Sweet Spot From the author of instant national bestseller Love & Saffron, this bright and...
Go Luck Yourself
Sara Raasch
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring stunning shamrock green sprayed edges! It's enemies to lovers in this sexy and delightful holiday mash up that pairs the spare prince of Christmas with the crown prince of St. Patrick's Day! Someone has been...
Red Dog Farm: A Novel
Nathaniel Ian Miller
Paper Book
An atmospheric, moving, and droll coming-of-age story about a young man's transformative year on his family's struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he falls in love, discovers a fondness for farming, and yearns to connect with his stoic father, who remains haunted by a tragic past.
Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
Paper Book
A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer--only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself. When Nadia Amin, a witty and bighearted PhD, publishes an article on...
The Garden
Nick Newman
Paper Book
An eerie, elegant, haunting novel about two elderly sisters living alone on the edge of the world, and how their lives unravel when their sanctum is breached, for fans of The Testaments and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Evelyn and Lily tend a large walled...
The Café with No Name
A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. "How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness."--Elizabeth Strout,...
The Passenger Seat
Vijay Khurana
A New York Times Editors' Choice A searing examination of male friendship and the broader social implications of masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness Two teenagers leave their small town on a vaguely charted road trip through the northern wilderness, with little more...
Raising hare : the heartwarming true story of an unlikely freindship
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE * A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK:...

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