Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything…
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Books With Interesting Characters
These characters have character... If you find yourself drawn to books driven by their memorable, interesting characters and (not necessarily romantic) relationships, then take a look at one of our selections below for your next read!
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- Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of Shearwater, an island near Antarctica, home to the world's largest seed bank. As they endure rising sea levels and isolation, a mysterious woman, Rowan, washes ashore during a severe…
- Leaving behind her socialite family in Atlanta, Ricki Wilde moves to New York to open a flower shop as the Harlem Renaissance swirls around her in the new novel from the author of Seven Days in June. (Also available as an eBook and downloadable…
- Finally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things, but a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenaged daughter and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into…
- Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both…
- When her husband Lewis, a few weeks after their wedding, receives a rare diagnosis, that his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark, Wren, struggling with his fate, finds his developing carnivorous nature activating…
- A woman in upstate New York who works transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach becomes infatuated with one of his clients, a repressed married woman from Switzerland who has a refreshing attitude towards trauma. (Also available as an eBook and…
- Studying at the University of Edinburgh, Clare, yearning to reinvent herself, becomes friends with Tabitha, an intimidatingly rich girl, and her exclusive circle, but when Tabitha needs her help on a special little project, Clare starts to realize…
- Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. A richly detailed, character-driven family…
- Fleeing to Miami after political violence consumes their native Kingston, a younger son of a Jamaican family, Trelawny, struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism and flat-out bad luck...
- Similar to "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow": Best friends who embark on a joint creative project never imagine the impact on both their relationship and the larger world. (Also available as an eBook and downloadable audiobook.)
- From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. (Also available as an eBook, downloadable audiobook,…
- The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never…
- In order to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, a detective travels hundreds of years in the past and meets a young Englishman exiled to Canada in 1912 and a famous writer who lives on a moon colony but is on a book tour on…
- Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author All the Light We Cannot See. (Also…
- The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Atonement presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle. (Also available…
- Two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness. Moving, bittersweet, and character-driven relationship fiction. (Also available as an…
- A family caught between two cultures yields a resonant story of faith, tradition, identity and belonging. (Also available as an eBook, downloadable audiobook, and in large print.)
- A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. (Also available as an eBook,…
- Ada, a shy, homeschooled prodigy, is sheltered by a colleague when her father's mental health and reputation deteriorate in ways that compel her to investigate his hidden past. Complex, introspective, sympathetic characters. Character-driven and…
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