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Tripwrecked

ByA. Poland

1 Reader • 150 pages • 3.5

The Foghorn Echoes

The Foghorn Echoes

ByDanny Ramadan

2022 • 6 Readers • 207 pages • 4

Charms for the Easy Life

Charms for the Easy Life

ByKaye Gibbons

1993 • 5 Readers • 223 pages • 4.5

Run Me to Earth

Run Me to Earth

ByPaul Yoon

2020 • 27 Readers • 272 pages • 3.5

The Neon Bible

ByJohn Kennedy Toole

1989 • 18 Readers • 162 pages • 3

Speech Team

ByTim Murphy

2023 • 12 Readers • 288 pages • 3

Ten Steps to Nanette

Ten Steps to Nanette

ByHannah Gadsby

2022 • 81 Readers • 401 pages • 4.5

Burial Rites

ByHannah Kent

2013 • 8 Readers • 4.3

Train to Pakistan

Train to Pakistan

ByKhushwant Singh

1956 • 25 Readers • 261 pages • 4.1

How Can I Help You

How Can I Help You

ByLaura Sims

2023 • 107 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

Breeders Box

ByTimothy Murphy

1998 • 1 Reader • 472 pages

All The Lovers

ByHarry F. Rey

1 Reader • 239 pages

When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World

ByBenjamín Labatut,Adrian Nathan West(Translator)

2020 • 304 Readers • 192 pages • 4

The Chef's Secret

The Chef's Secret

ByCrystal King

2019 • 3 Readers • 352 pages • 3

Quaspeck

ByEric Lehman

1993 • 1 Reader • 339 pages

The Image of Her

The Image of Her

BySonia Velton

2021 • 1 Reader • 416 pages • 4

Consolation

ByJonathan Strong

2010 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

ByAnnette Gordon-Reed

2008 • 30 Readers • 798 pages • 4.3

The Assault

ByHarry Mulisch,Claire Nicolas White(translator)

1982 • 26 Readers • 193 pages • 4

Secret Words: A Novel

Secret Words: A Novel

ByJonathan Strong

1992 • 1 Reader • 236 pages

The Leftover Woman

The Leftover Woman

ByJean Kwok

2023 • 96 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7

Milk Street Simple

Milk Street Simple

ByChristopher Kimball

2023 • 1 Reader • 3

Congratulations, the Best is Over!

Congratulations, the Best is Over!

ByR. Eric Thomas

2023 • 15 Readers • 3.8

Family Family

ByLaurie Frankel

2024 • 45 Readers • 400 pages • 3.6

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

ByLaila Lalami

2020 • 30 Readers • 208 pages • 4

Silver Nitrate

BySilvia Moreno-Garcia

2023 • 388 Readers • 318 pages • 3.7

Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

ByAimee Nezhukumatathil

2024 • 14 Readers • 3.8

Las Madres

ByEsmeralda Santiago

2023 • 8 Readers • 4

Tasting History

Tasting History

ByMax Miller,Ann Volkwein

2023 • 3 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

Labor Day

ByJoyce Maynard

2009 • 19 Readers • 244 pages • 3.4

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

ByLeslie Jamison

2024 • 16 Readers • 218 pages • 5

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

ByMeghan Daum

2014 • 26 Readers • 257 pages • 3.5

The Empathy Exams

The Empathy Exams

ByLeslie Jamison

2014 • 81 Readers • 256 pages • 3.6

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

ByMeghan Daum(Editor),Kate Christensen(Contributor)

2015 • 38 Readers • 288 pages • 3

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The Merry Recluse

The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays

ByCaroline Knapp

2004 • 1 Reader • 4

The English Understand Wool

The English Understand Wool

ByHelen DeWitt

2022 • 77 Readers • 61 pages • 4.3

What's Not Mine

What's Not Mine

ByNora Decter

2024 • 1 Reader

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

#2 of 1 in 7 rue de Grenelle

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

ByMuriel Barbery

2006 • 213 Readers • 282 pages • 3.7

Drinking

ByCaroline Knapp

1996 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 4.5

The Years

ByAnnie Ernaux,Alison L. Strayer(Translator)

2008 • 76 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

Greek Lessons

ByHan Kang,Deborah Smith(Translator),+1 more

2011 • 108 Readers • 175 pages • 3.7

Liars

BySarah Manguso

2024 • 42 Readers • 257 pages • 3.9

Very Cold People

Very Cold People

BySarah Manguso

2022 • 43 Readers • 209 pages • 4

Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An Indie Odyssey

Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An Indie Odyssey

ByNige Tassell

2022 • 1 Reader • 408 pages

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

ByMiki Berenyi

7 Readers • 367 pages • 5

The Murder Wheel

#2 of 3 in A Spector Locked-Room Mystery

The Murder Wheel

ByTom Mead

2023 • 1 Reader

O Brother

ByJohn Niven

2023 • 2 Readers • 324 pages • 5

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

ByAnna Johnston

2024 • 12 Readers • 368 pages

Ms. Demeanor

ByElinor Lipman

19 Readers • 3.5

The Peacock Summer

The Peacock Summer

ByHannah Richell

2018 • 3 Readers • 320 pages

Big in Sweden

BySally Franson

2024 • 3 Readers

The New Person

ByLoretta Nyhan

4 Readers

Bummer Camp

ByAnn Garvin

2024 • 6 Readers

The Anatomy of Desire

The Anatomy of Desire

ByL.R. Dorn

2021 • 10 Readers • 330 pages • 3.3

The Great Pretenders

The Great Pretenders

ByLaura Kalpakian

2019 • 1 Reader

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

ByOlivia Ford

2024 • 19 Readers • 4

Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous

Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous

ByMae Marvel

2024 • 19 Readers • 260 pages • 3.5

How to Care for a Human Girl

How to Care for a Human Girl

ByAshley Wurzbacher

2023 • 9 Readers • 4.5

Second Place

ByRachel Cusk

2021 • 125 Readers • 186 pages • 3.9

Mornings with Rosemary

ByLibby Page

2018 • 17 Readers • 336 pages • 4.2

My Life as a Silent Movie

Break Away Books

My Life as a Silent Movie

ByJesse Lee Kercheval

2013 • 1 Reader • 206 pages

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

ByJesselyn Cook

2024 • 23 Readers • 273 pages • 4.8

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

BySteven Johnson

2024 • 12 Readers

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Undue Burden

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

ByShefali Luthra

7 Readers

The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

#2 of 4 in Dream Harbor

The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

ByLaurie Gilmore

2024 • 101 Readers • 347 pages • 3.6

The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country

The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country

ByRosie Schaap

2024

Black Pill

ByElle Reeve

2024 • 19 Readers • 304 pages • 5

Small Rain: A Novel

Small Rain: A Novel

ByGarth Greenwell

2024

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

ByRachelle Bergstein

2024 • 1 Reader

The Bookshop

ByEvan Friss

2024 • 24 Readers • 417 pages

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

ByEmily Nussbaum

2024 • 51 Readers • 360 pages • 4.1

They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

ByMike Hixenbaugh

2024 • 8 Readers • 4

Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

ByJon Favreau

7 Readers • 3.5

Two-Step Devil

ByJamie Quatro

9 Readers • 3.5

Mina's Matchbox

Mina's Matchbox

ByYōko Ogawa,Stephen B. Snyder(Translator)

2006 • 31 Readers • 229 pages • 4.1

The Heart in Winter

The Heart in Winter

ByKevin Barry

2024 • 28 Readers • 256 pages • 4.1

An Academy for Liars

An Academy for Liars

ByAlexis Henderson

2024 • 136 Readers • 464 pages • 2.7

X'ed Out

#1 of 3 in Last Look Trilogy

ByCharles Burns

2010 • 17 Readers • 56 pages • 4

Final Cut

ByCharles Burns

2024 • 1 Reader

Poochytown

Frank

ByJim Woodring

2018 • 1 Reader • 110 pages

Not So Pure and Simple

Not So Pure and Simple

ByLamar Giles

2020 • 24 Readers • 329 pages • 4.1

Dreams of Joy

#2 of 2 in Shanghai Girls

ByLisa See

2011 • 33 Readers • 377 pages • 4.2

Masquerade

ByMike Fu

2024

Pedro Páramo

ByJuan Rulfo,Douglas J. Weatherford(translator)

1955 • 265 Readers • 144 pages • 3.9

Notes of a Crocodile

Notes of a Crocodile

ByQiu Miaojin

2017 • 129 Readers • 3.4

Queerceañera

ByAlex Crespo

2024 • 3 Readers • 3

The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of José Sarria

The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of José Sarria

ByMichael R. Gorman

1998 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco

Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco

ByJosh Sides

2009 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History

Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History

ByAngus McLaren

2002 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

Bricktop

ByBricktop,James Haskins

1983 • 300 pages

Woman, Life, Freedom

Woman, Life, Freedom

ByMarjane Satrapi,Una Dimitrijevic(Translator)

2023 • 2 Readers

Silver Sparrow

ByTayari Jones

2011 • 76 Readers • 340 pages • 3.7

Shimmer

BySarah Schulman

1998 • 1 Reader • 273 pages

The Star Side of Bird Hill

The Star Side of Bird Hill

ByNaomi Jackson

2015 • 9 Readers • 304 pages • 5

The Taking of Jake Livingston

The Taking of Jake Livingston

ByRyan Douglass

2021 • 161 Readers • 257 pages • 3.6

An American Marriage

An American Marriage

ByTayari Jones

2018 • 434 Readers • 321 pages • 4

Bluets

ByMaggie Nelson,Lawrence Schimel(Translator)

2009 • 227 Readers • 106 pages • 3.8

Maggie Terry

BySarah Schulman

2018 • 1 Reader • 265 pages

Let the Record Show

Let the Record Show

BySarah Schulman

2021 • 29 Readers • 736 pages • 4.5

The Devil Finds Work

The Devil Finds Work

ByJames Baldwin

1976 • 20 Readers • 144 pages • 3.8