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1 - The Guest Book: A Novel
Sarah Blake · Flatiron Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used... |
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2 - Normal People: A Novel
Sally Rooney · Hogarth
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely,... |
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3 - The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel
Juliet Grames · Ecco
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter... |
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4 - Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Lara Prior-Palmer · Catapult
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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One of Entertainment Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 "Lara's searingly honest account of her astonishing rise from hopeless underdog to Mongol Derby Champion leaves grit in your teeth and dust in your hair. I laughed, I cried and I felt every bruise. I was riveted til the last... |
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5 - Lanny: A Novel
Max Porter · Graywolf Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with FeathersThere's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise... |
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6 - Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth."... |
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7 - Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
John Glynn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping, unforgettable portrait of life in a Montauk summer house--a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family."'We were sun children chasing an eternal summer.' This boisterous chronicle of a summer in Montauk sees... |
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8 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel
Kim Michele Richardson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's... |
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9 - Courting Mr. Lincoln: A Novel
Louis Bayard · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton, or fiction - of any era - that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." - A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy... |
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10 - Southern Lady Code: Essays
Helen Ellis · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"I loved it." - Ann Patchett The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts,... |
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11 - Rules for Visiting: A Novel
Jessica Francis Kane · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure... |
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12 - Disappearing Earth: A novel
Julia Phillips · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon,... |
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13 - Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
Lucy Ives · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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A tale of two idiots -- the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego -- who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious creative writing program in the country It's the end of summer,... |
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14 - The Bride Test
Helen Hoang · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny,... |
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15 - Cape May: A Novel
Chip Cheek · Celadon Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"What a treat. Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy, Cape May is a novel about marriage, lust, shabby seaside towns and lots of gin. Brilliantly unsettling -- one of those books that stays with you." - Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train... |
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16 - Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
Jayson Greene · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss." --Cheryl StrayedFor readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief.As... |
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17 - Miracle Creek: A Novel
Angie Kim · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we'll go to protect our families -- and our deepest secretsMy husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn't even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . .In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental... |
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18 - Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival) , the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short storiesThis much-anticipated second... |
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19 - The Binding: A Novel
Bridget Collins · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Sarah Waters, Helene Wecker, and Jessie Burton, an atmospheric and mystery-laden historical novel set within a magical world where books are not stories but the repository of individual lives.Imagine you could erase grief.Imagine you could remove pain.Imagine you could... |
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20 - Light from Other Stars
Erika Swyler · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida... |
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