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Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club
Celeste Ng
Stunning ... One of Ng’s most poignant tricks in this novel is to bury its central tragedy...in the middle of the action. This raises the narrative from the specific story of a confused boy and his defeated father to a reflection on the universal bond between parents and children.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
One of Morrison’s hardest, toughest works, The Bluest Eye is also one of her deepest and truest... Morrison needs only just over 200 pages to craft a full novel about what is seen and unseen, what we overlook in other people, and how society manufactures beauty.
Paperback, 2007
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison
Thank you, @RonCharles. REQUIRED READING: Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. https://t.co/a9Tj1GQuNH
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spent: A Comic Novel
Alison Bechdel
A great practitioner of graphic memoir, Bechdel (“Fun Home”) turns her gimlet eye selfward in this hilarious account of a slightly autobiographical “Alison Bechdel,” who lives on a pygmy goat farm with her partner, Holly... Truthful, rueful and delightful.
Hardcover, 2025
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Actual Star
Monica Byrne
My #Top5BooksoftheWeek, 9/14/21, SUCH a big book week: THE ACTUAL STAR by Monica Byrne BEWILDERMENT by Richard Powers THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS by Ruth Ozeki THE SPECKLED BEAUTY by Rick Bragg ASSEMBLY by Natasha Brown
Paperback, 2022
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fight Night
Miriam Toews
@miciahbay NIGHT BITCH by Rachel Yoder GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS by Max Porter FIGHT NIGHT by Miriam Toews THRUST by Lidia Yuknavitch
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang
Dark academia remains a hot genre; R. F. Kuang (“Yellowface”) takes it to a new level in her sixth novel. Two graduate students, Alice and Peter, must travel to hell in order to save their professor’s soul, and yes, there’s a bit of will-they-or-won’t-they romance.
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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire Keegan
@jaldous Do not miss SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE by Claire Keegan
Hardcover, 2021
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick
Jodi Picoult
Happy #FridayReads! I am totally lost in MAD HONEY by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Its characters feel so real. What are YOU reading?
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aesthetica
Allie Rowbottom
Happy #FridayReads! I'm diving into AESTHETICA by Allie Rowbottom. How about you?
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book