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• Convenience Store Woman

  Murata, Sayaka, 1979-

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  Japanese author Sayaka Murata’s novel follows Keiko Furukawa, a 36-year-old grocery store worker, who’s been single all her life, and finds it tough to fit into the conventional roles of society.

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  Between the World and Me is a letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s fifteen-year-old son, Samori. He weaves his personal, historical, and intellectual development into his ruminations on how to live in a black body in America.

• The New Me

  Butler, Halle,

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  Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her situation--her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life.

• Elevation

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Set in Castle Rock, Elevation is a story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together.

• The Cat Who Saved Books

  a Novel

  Natsukawa, Sōsuke, 1978-

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  Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request to help him save lonely books left unread and unloved from their neglectful owners.

• An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

  Stories

  Tursten, Helene, 1954-

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  Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and…no qualms about a little murder.

• The Penelopiad

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Atwood’s retelling of Homer’s Odyssey from the POV of the warrior’s wife, Penelope, deals with themes of female subjugation, gender stereotypes and the patriarchy.

• Tin Man

  Winman, Sarah, 1964-

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  This book is a short and sweet journey through the lives of 3 pretty ordinary people. Ellis and Michael have been friends forever, and as they turn into men, it becomes complicated and yet, uncomplicated. And then they meet Annie, and she changes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Afraid of Men

  Shraya, Vivek, 1981-

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  In this essay-style memoir, Vivek Shraya shares her experiences with men as a trans woman.

• Tuesdays With Morrie

  An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  Albom, Mitch, 1958-

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  Mitch Albom rekindles his relationship with his former college professor Morrie in the last months of the latter’s life. This book is a threshold of wisdom transferred from an old man to his student.

• Of Mice and Men

  Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

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  Of Mice and Men is the story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world.

• The Sense of An Ending

  Barnes, Julian

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  This novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about — until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present

• Red at the Bone

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Red at the Bone centers on two black families who come together when a girl and a boy in high school, Iris and Aubrey, become pregnant.

• Goodbye, Vitamin

  a Novel

  Khong, Rachel, 1985-

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  Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiancé are moving house, but he’s moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Uncommon Reader

  Bennett, Alan, 1934-

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  When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library, she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who frequents the library, the Queen is transformed as she discovers the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  Gaiman, Neil

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  A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sea Prayer

  Hosseini, Khaled

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  Written in the form of a letter by a refugee father to his son on the evening of their escape through the sea.

• $10,000,000 Marriage Proposal

  Patterson, James, 1947-

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  A mysterious billboard intrigues three single women in LA. But who is this Mr. Right? And is he the perfect match for the lucky winner?

• The Secret of the Blue Trunk

  Dion, Lise

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  The true story of how a young Québécois nun ended up a prisoner of war in Buchenwald and how her daughter discovered her secrets.

• Open Water

  Nelson, Caleb Azumah,

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  A love affair between a photographer and a dancer is intertwined with a glorious celebration of black exuberance and artistry