Book mentions in this thread

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    Fierce Attachments

    by Vivian Gornick

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    The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

    by Dawnie Walton

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    The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

    by Deesha Philyaw

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    There There

    by Tommy Orange

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    Hour of the Witch

    by Chris Bohjalian

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    Arsenic and Adobo (A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery)

    by Mia P. Manansala

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    The Places That Scare You

    by Pema Chödrön

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    Transcendent Kingdom

    by Yaa Gyasi

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    House in the Cerulean Sea

    by T J Klune

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    Short Life

    by Michael Edward Nichols

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    Libertie

    by Kaitlyn Greenidge

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    The History of Love

    by Nicole Krauss

    Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago in the Polish village where he was born Leo fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in honour of his love. These days he assumes that the book, and his dreams, are irretrievably lost, until one day they return to him in the form of a brown envelope. Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author. Soon these and other worlds collide in The History of Love, a captivating story of the power of love, of loneliness and of survival.
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    Silences

    by Tillie Olsen

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    Hummingbird Salamander

    by Jeff VanderMeer

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    Malibu Rising

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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    Interior Chinatown (Vintage Contemporaries)

    by Charles Yu

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    The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

    by Laura Imai Messina

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    All This Could Be Yours

    by Jami Attenberg

    From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer. "If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father, Victor, is on his deathbed, Alex--a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister--feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tight-lipped mother, Barbra. As Barbra fends off Alex's unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Meanwhile Gary, Alex's brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Gary's wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drugstores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Dysfunction is at its peak. As family members grapple with Victor's history, they must figure out a way to move forward--with one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children. All This Could Be Yours is a timely, piercing exploration of what it means to be caught in the web of a toxic man who abused his power; it shows how those webs can entangle a family for generations, and what it takes to--maybe, hopefully--break free. With her signature "sparkling prose" (Marie Claire) and incisive wit, Jami Attenberg deftly explores one of the most important subjects of our age.
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    Miss Jane

    by Brad Watson

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    Cloud Atlas

    by David Stephen Mitchell

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    Thirtysomething Stories

    by Writers of Thirtysomething

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    Europe before Rome

    by T. Douglas Price

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    A Strangeness in My Mind

    by Orhan Pamuk

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    Florida

    by Lauren Groff

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    Flatshare

    by Beth O'Leary

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    A Way to Garden

    by Margaret Roach

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    New Seeds of Contemplation

    by Thomas Merton

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    The Argonauts

    by Maggie Nelson

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    The Electricity of Every Living Thing

    by Katherine May

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    The Lesser Bohemians

    by Eimear McBride

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    The Lost Founding Father

    by William J. Cooper

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    Superior

    by Angela Saini

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    The Sum of Us

    by Heather McGhee