Books like Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Reid’s lush tale follows film legend Evelyn Hugo as she unveils the truth of her glamorous, scandal‑ridden life to an unlikely biographer, revealing the intersecting fates of Hollywood’s biggest star and a struggling reporter.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

Ibram X. Kendi’s *How to Be an Antiracist* explains racism as a powerful system that creates false hierarchies and offers a guide—drawing on ethics, history, law, and science—to help readers confront and dismantle racial injustice in society and themselves.

A luminous twins’ story of love, loss, and family that follows Jude and Noah from carefree adolescence to a painful rift, as each seeks healing and a return to one another.

Tommy Orange’s debut novel follows a diverse group of Oklahoman Native Americans who gather for a city powwow, each confronting personal struggles, family histories, and their collective identity.

Caseworker Linus travels to a remote orphanage to investigate ragged kids and their enigmatic caretaker Arthur, only to discover that the island’s magical children—and his own heart—are part of something larger than he imagined.

After a twenty‑year friendship ends, Arthur Greer is invited to his ex‑boyfriend’s wedding and embarks on a globe‑spanning trip that reconnects him with a past love, tests his courage and forces a fresh start at fifty.

After her husband vanishes, Hannah Hall must protect his unknown daughter while an FBI investigation forces her to confront a hidden past and uncover the truth about Owen Michaels’ disappearance.

A coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl grappling with the loss of her uncle and searching for the truth about her family's past.

A frail Lucy Barton slowly recovers from a minor operation, and the arrival of her estranged mother turns a simple hospital visit into a heartfelt exploration of mother‑daughter bonds.

On a day she vows to change, Eleanor’s plans unravel as her son fakes illness, her husband hides a vacation, and a former colleague’s memoir threatens to expose a family secret, forcing her to confront her past and reinvent herself.

After being adopted by a quirky Dublin couple who treat him only as a house‑guest, Cyril embarks on a life‑spanning quest to discover his origins, his place in Ireland, and the meaning of true belonging.

In mid‑life, Willa Knox faces a crumbling inherited home and a family in crisis, prompting her to uncover Vineland, New Jersey’s Utopian roots and a nineteenth‑century connection that may save them.

Carlos Delacruz, an agent for the Council of the Dead, hunts paranormal culprits behind a string of grisly ghost‑themed accidents in Brooklyn’s Von King Park.

Irene Steele’s quiet suburban life shatters when her husband dies on the Caribbean island of St. John. Discovering his secret second family, she must untangle a web of intrigue and deceit beneath the island’s pristine beaches.

Landreaux Iron accidentally kills his neighbor’s child while hunting and, guided by Ojibwe tradition, seeks justice and healing within intertwined families.

"Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage.' Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read-- by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, 'the three witches,' discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya accidentally dyes her hair too blue. In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's own volatile past. As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left" --