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• Book Match

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  Fill out a survey with information about your reading tastes, and one of our Matchmakers will send you a personalized reading list within two weeks. You can select a specific Matchmaker, or you can fill out a general survey and one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nest

  Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix,

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  "A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives."

• The Corrections

  Franzen, Jonathan

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  "After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seven Days of Us

  a Novel

  Hornak, Francesca

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  "It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter-who is usually off saving the world-will be joining them at Weyfield Hall. But Olivia, a doctor, is only coming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Sister, the Serial Killer

  a Novel

  Braithwaite, Oyinkan,

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  "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends."

• The Adults

  a Novel

  Hulse, Caroline, 1977-

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  "Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a "normal" family Christmas. They can't agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest Holiday park , or who said they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Liars' Club

  a Memoir

  Karr, Mary,

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  "...Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J.D. Salinger's--a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wangs Vs. the World

  Chang, Jade, 1975-

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  "A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together."

• Everything I Never Told You

  Ng, Celeste,

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  "A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I never told you is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

  Sedaris, David

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  A collection of autobiographical essays about the Sedaris family.

• This Is Where I Leave You

  Tropper, Jonathan

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  Judd Foxman's father has died, and as a last request, asked his family to sit shiva for seven days. The entire family has not been together under one roof in years, and the enforced confinement leads to many revelations.