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The Candy House: A Novel By Jennifer Egan Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781476716770
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Published: Scribner - March 7th, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST TOP SIX BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF SLATE’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022

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The Cat Who Saved Books: A Novel By Sosuke Natsukawa, Louise Heal Kawai (Translated by) Cover Image
By Sosuke Natsukawa, Louise Heal Kawai (Translated by)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780063095731
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Published: HarperVia - March 14th, 2023

AN INDIE NEXT PICK!

From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles.


Booth By Karen Joy Fowler Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593331453
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - February 7th, 2023

Best Book of the Year
Real Simple • AARP • USA Today NPR • Virginia Living

Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize


Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel By Xochitl Gonzalez Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250786180
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Published: Flatiron Books - February 7th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · WINNER OF THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD FINALIST

A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots—all in the wake of Hurricane Maria


When We Were Birds: A Novel By Ayanna Lloyd Banwo Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593313619
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Published: Anchor - February 14th, 2023

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal.


The Wife of Willesden By Zadie Smith Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593653739
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Published: Penguin Books - February 14th, 2023

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath

“Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.
She plays many roles round here. And never
Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether
Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife


A Very Nice Girl: A Novel By Imogen Crimp Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250871077
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - February 7th, 2023

Selected for Malala's Book Club

“Imogen Crimp’s enjoyable debut novel… is an all-too-real reminder of what it is to be a woman in your 20s…” – The New York Times


"Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People.”—Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss


Love at Six Thousand Degrees By Maki Kashimada, Haydn Trowell (Translator) Cover Image
By Maki Kashimada, Haydn Trowell (Translator)
$17.00
ISBN: 9781609458195
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Published: Europa Editions - March 7th, 2023

WINNER OF THE MISHIMA YUKIO PRIZE


An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young half-Russian, half-Japanese man.


None of This Is Serious By Catherine Prasifka Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781838855536
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Published: Canongate Books - February 28th, 2023

'Extraordinary' Naoise Dolan
'Seriously good' Louise Nealon


Young Mungo By Douglas Stuart Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780802162120
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Published: Grove Press - March 21st, 2023

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie BainAcclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Amazon, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Young Mungo is a brilliantly constructed and deeply


Sankofa: A Novel By Chibundu Onuzo Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781646221585
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Published: Catapult - February 7th, 2023

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


Free Love: A Novel By Tessa Hadley Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780063137837
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Published: Harper Perennial - February 7th, 2023

“Exquisite." Minneapolis Star Tribune "Brilliantly observed.” — People, Pick of the Week


We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland By Fintan O'Toole Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781324092872
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Published: Liveright - February 7th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The Atlantic: 10 Best Books of 2022
Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, New Yorker, Salon, Foreign Affairs, New Statesman, Chicago Public Library, Vroman's
“[L]ike reading a great tragicomic Irish novel.” —James Wood, The New Yorker


A Touch of Jen By Beth Morgan Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316704274
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Published: Back Bay Books - February 21st, 2023

A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado).

"Um, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." —Emily Temple, Literary Hub

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure  service workers,


Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage By Heather Havrilesky Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062984487
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Published: Ecco - February 14th, 2023

“One of the first honest, moving and funny portrayals of a solid marriage I have ever read.” —Jessica Grose, The New York Times

A Best Book of 2022 from The New Yorker and Chicago Tribune


Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593230275
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 14th, 2023

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times


The Paris Apartment: A Novel By Lucy Foley Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063003064
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - February 21st, 2023

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.”  — Vogue


French Braid: A novel By Anne Tyler Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593466407
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Published: Vintage - February 21st, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild.