Best Books for Adults 2019

99 Books Found

  • American Spy

    A Cold War FBI agent sets out to seduce an African Communist president.
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  • Ancestral Night

    A space salvager finds an ancient technology that is of great interest to both pirates and the government.
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  • Ayesha at Last

    A modern Muslim adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
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  • Bad Gateway

    Deals with addiction/desperation and is funny until it's not.
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  • The Bird King

    Set in the royal court of Granada during the Spanish Inquisition, a concubine is accused of sorcery.
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  • Black Condition, F.T. Narcissus

    Struggle, resilience, and alienation in the internet age are deconstructed in dodd’s experimental collection.
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  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf

    Tracker is hired to find a boy who disappeared years before. He and his search party are quickly targeted by deadly creatures.
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  • Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

    An investigation into the generic drug boom.
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  • Bringing Down the Duke

    Annabelle Archer recruits men of influence to fight in the suffrage movement in 1879 England. She sets her sights on a cold and calculating duke and their romance nearly upends British society.
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  • Broken Stars: Contemporary Science Fiction in Translation

    A collection of contemporary Chinese science fiction in translation.
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  • BTTM FDRS

    Set in Chicago, this is pitched as similar to Get Out and is a gentrification horror story where an apartment building comes alive and seems to be eating the inhabitants.
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  • Bunny

    Darkly funny and sardonic, an MFA student at an elite New England University is asked to join the popular clique.
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  • Cannonball

    Angsty and beautiful and will resonate with the young hipster crowds.
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  • Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

    An investigation into the unchecked power of the prosecutor in this era of mass incarceration.
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  • A Cosmology of Monsters

    A Texas family that runs a haunted house is haunted by monsters.
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  • The Crazy Bunch

    This savage, funny, and lyrical hymn speaks to Perdomo’s formative years in East Harlem.
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  • The Current

    Surviving the accident that killed her friend, a young woman delves into the case of another victim from a decade earlier.
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  • Deaf Republic

    Kaminsky maps a republic of the imagination that has an unsettling contemporary resonance.
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  • Disappearing Earth

    The disappearance of two young girls from a Russian peninsula shakes the community.
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  • The Doll Factory

    In 1850s London an aspiring artist takes a job as a model working for an obsessive painter.
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  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    When her neighbor turns up dead, then others within the Polish village and outsiders turn up dead, Janine inserts herself in the investigation.
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  • Exhalation

    A story collection with themes including the effects of technology on humans, free will, fate and consciousness.
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  • Fleishman is in Trouble

    Toby Fleishman's soon-to-be-ex-wife Rachel drops their two kids at his place a day early and fails to pick them up as scheduled, things quickly get desperate.
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  • Fly Already

    This smart, quirky, irreverent collection nearly 2 dozen stories.
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  • The Future of Another Timeline

    A geologist and a teen rebel are swept up in a historical parallel world America where time travel is possible.
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  • Ghost Wall

    An Iron Age reenactment trip with a group of experimental anthropologists turns sinister.
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  • Gideon the Ninth

    A lesbian necromancer becomes a bodyguard to an emperor to secure her freedom.
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  • Girl

    A young Nigerian woman kidnapped by Boko Haram escapes but not before becoming pregnant by one of her captors.
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  • A Girl Returned

    An unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family whom she has never met.
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  • Gods of Jade and Shadow

    Set against the Jazz age in Mexico's underworld, Casiopea Tun is sent by the Mayan God of Death on a mystical adventure.
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  • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

    Thoughtful examination of race and family. Good for a New York audience.
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  • Grand Union

    A collection filled with radically different characters in varied settings with unique sets of struggles.
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  • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

    An anthropologist chronicles Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to present day.
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  • Hot Comb

    Coming of age stories centered around race, class, identity.
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  • How to Be an Antiracist

    A fresh approach to recognizing and deconstructing racism and inequality in ourselves and society.
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  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

    A critique of the forces vying for our attention that redefines what we think of as productivity, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see.
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  • In Her Feminine Sign

    Mikhail’s poetry renders sublime and ordinary the enigmatic states of womanhood.
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  • In Waves

    Depicts Dungo's relationship with girlfriend dying of cancer, mixed in with the history of surfing.
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  • Inland

    Set in the Arizona Territory in 1893, the novel follows the intertwining stories of a frontierswoman waiting for the men in her life to return home and an outlaw who is haunted by ghosts.
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  • The Institute

    Teens with psychic abilities are held captive at the institute.
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  • Lady In the Lake

    Baltimore, 1966, a reporter investigates the murder of an African-American party girl.
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  • Lanny

    In a small English village, a mythical creature is awakened by the arrival of a young boy.
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  • Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

    A beautifully written collection of essays about nature and the author's childhood.
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  • Library of Small Catastrophes

    The complexities of life are cataloged and archived in a simple and effective poetic style.
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  • Lima :: Limon

    Borders exist inside and out, traverse them if you can.
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  • Lost Children Archive

    A novel about a family on a road trip across america told in varying perspectives and with archival documents and photographs.
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  • Lovely War

    A romance set in WWI & WWII where the gods hold the fate of four mortals.
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  • The Man Who Saw Everything

    Posing for a photograph on Abbey Road in London, an imitation of the iconic album cover, Saul Adler is sideswiped by a car setting off a spiral of events.
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  • The Memory Police

    A young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who erase memories.
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  • Mister Miracle

    People have been raving about this for 2 years and the trade finally came out this year. Definitely top echelon when it comes to superhero comics.
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  • Mouthful of Birds

    A darkly funny and disturbing collection. Inventive and full of haunting imagery.
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  • My Lovely Wife

    A psychopathic couple in suburbia decide to spice things up.
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  • The Nanny

    When your nanny is getting too close to your family, perhaps it is time to get rid of her?
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  • The Need

    Scientist Molly is home alone with her two young children when an intruder enters her home.
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  • The Nickel Boys

    The story of two teenage boys in a brutal segregated reform school in Florida.
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  • Night Boat to Tangier

    Two drug smugglers reflect on their choices in a Spanish ferry terminal.
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  • Ninth House

    A poor girl is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale by mysterious benefactors.
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  • Normal People

    A will they won't they end up together story with two very complicated and sympathetic characters.
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  • Off Season

    A couple separates during the fall of 2016 as Bernie looses to Hillary and Hillary to Trump.
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  • Olive, Again

    A sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds our beloved and cantankerous lead struggling to understand herself and the people around her in Crosby, Maine.
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  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Written as a letter to a mother who cannot read, the narrator confesses difficult memories from childhood and things about his current life.
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  • Orange World

    Let's just say the title story is about a new mother who strikes a deal to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection over her baby.
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  • An Orchestra of Minorities

    A spirit tells the story of a Nigerian farmer who sacrifices everything for a wealthy woman with whom he is in love.
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  • The Other Americans

    The suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant impacts the lives of a diverse cast of characters.
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  • Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

    A narrative portrait of the influential American diplomat that explores how his achievements over half a century of history were complicated by his political ambitions.
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  • Parkland: Birth of a Movement

    An account of the teenage survivors of the Parkland massacre who became powerful activists.
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  • Penny Nichols

    Temp worker Penny falls in with amateur filmmakers and she begins to find a place for herself. Funny, chaotic, sarcastic.
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  • The Perfect Wife

    A woman miraculously restored to health by the innovations of her tech icon husband struggles with missing memories.
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  • A Prince On Paper

    Nya Jerami is forced into a pretend engagement with the infamous prince Johan von Braustein, whom she loves to hate.
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  • Raised in Captivity

    A witty satirical collection of high-concept stories.
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  • Red at the Bone

    Melody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents' house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody's own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place.
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  • Red, White & Royal Blue

    The First Son and the Prince of Wales must pretend to be friends, until they are so much more than friends.
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  • The Right Swipe

    A cynical dating app creator has to decide whether or not to take a second chance at romance.
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  • Rusty Brown

    A nerdy, bullied, Nebraska teen trying to survive junior high school.
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  • Sabrina & Corina

    A collection of stories featuring Latina characters in the American West.
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  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    Begins with an IRA kidnapping of a mother of 10 in 1972 Belfast and ends with the discovery of her remains. Sandwiched between is the story of one facet of the IRA.
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  • The Secrets We Kept

    Two CIA agents help to publish Doctor Zhivago against the censorship of Cold War Moscow.
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  • The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

    The story of an Italian American family and the complicated woman at its heart, Stella Fortuna.
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  • She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

    The story of Harvey Weinstein's decades of sexual abuse in Hollywood.
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  • A Single Thread

    Winchester, 1932, a war widow joins a century-of circle of embroiderers.
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  • Soft Science

    Savagely erotic, Choi surveys the future with a razor-sharp eye. This collection has the sharp power of a razor to the sensibilities.
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  • Some Girls Survive on their Sorcery Alone

    Fierce, real, and unapologetic, Nurse’s poetry portrays the vulnerability and subjective view of women.
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  • The Testaments

    Margaret Atwood finally answers the question, what happened to Offred?
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  • Thick: And Other Essays

    Provocative and witty essays about beauty standards, media, money, and more.
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  • Three Women

    A close look at the sex lives of three American women in all its complexity.
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  • The Topeka School

    A family drama set in the American Midwest in the 90s.
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  • Transcription

    A BBC radio producer finds herself targeted by dangerous individuals from her past as a World War II espionage monitor for MI5.
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  • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion

    A collection of essays about the fractures in today's culture from a writer who indulges in all she takes on.
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  • Trust Exercise

    Follows two 15-year-old students in a 1980s performing arts school.
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  • Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50

    A playful and inventive portrait of nature’s fierce and humorous indifference toward humanity and its accessories.
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  • The Turn of the Key

    An incarcerated woman struggles to explain the events that started with her taking a job as a nanny in the Scottish highlands and ended with her imprisonment for child murder.
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  • Underland: A Deep Time Journey

    Richly described nature writing about various worlds that exist under our feet.
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  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

    An account of all the many possible ways climate change will be the end of humanity as we know it.
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  • The Volunteer

    The book follows Vollie Frade through three tours in Vietnam, a black ops mission he will forever regret, a marriage to the last survivor of a free-love commune in New Mexico.
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  • The Water Dancer

    A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery.
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  • A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

    Traces the story of Virginia Hall, a WWII spy who coordinated Resistance efforts in Europe.
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  • The World Doesn't Require You

    Stories set in a fictional town in Maryland that is at times surreal, offbeat, and darkly funny.
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  • The Year of Blue Water

    Deceptively simple, The Year of Blue Water speaks to anyone finding their place in the world with emotional depth and clarity.
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  • The Yellow House

    The 13th daughter of a widowed mother recalls her childhood in New Orleans 13th ward.
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