Sea Monsters
By: Chloe Aridjis
3.37
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters o…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Imprisoned on this island, I would say, imprisoned on this island"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"He had started out as a snag, a snag in the composition; from one moment to the next, there was no other way of putting it, he had begun to appear in my life back in the city. And since all appearances are ultimately disturbances, this disturbance needed investigating."-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"If I stayed in much longer I was certain I would dissolve, there were probably hundreds of dissolved bodies in the ocean, swirling around with the shells and seaweed, that’s what happens when you immerse yourself too fully in any vastness, you eventually become part of it, part of the landscape, quite literally."-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and the kind of romantic who remains alone, waiting and waiting for the right person to arrive, a person who may not even exist. It was too early to know which kind I would be."-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. Faces in the Crowd
By: Valeria Luiselli , Christina MacSweeney
3.59
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. I… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
- audiobook
"The boy wakes me up: do you know where mosquitoes come from, Mama?"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"That’s the way literary recognition works, at least to a certain degree. It’s all a matter of rumor, a rumor that multiplies like a virus until it becomes a collective affinity."-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"El problema con los criollos, y hasta en mayor grado con las criollas, es que están convencidos de que merecen una mejor vida de la que tienen. La mente criolla está convencida de que bajo la corteza…"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"Dejar una vida. Dinamitar todo. No, no todo: dinamitar el metro cuadrado que uno ocupaba entre la gente. Más bien: dejar sillas vacías en las mesas que se compartían con las amistades, no a modo de m…"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
3. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
5. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
6. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
8. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
9. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
10. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
11. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
12. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
13. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
14. La reina del baile
By: Camila Fabbri
3.48
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Una mujer despierta en un auto volcado en plena avenida nocturna. Hay humo y olor a nafta. Apenas s… read more
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- novels
15. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
16. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
17. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- fantasy
- audiobook
18. Sea Monsters
By: Chloe Aridjis
3.37
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters o… read more
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- literature
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- historical fiction
- novels
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Imprisoned on this island, I would say, imprisoned on this island"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"He had started out as a snag, a snag in the composition; from one moment to the next, there was no other way of putting it, he had begun to appear in my life back in the city. And since all appearanc…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"If I stayed in much longer I was certain I would dissolve, there were probably hundreds of dissolved bodies in the ocean, swirling around with the shells and seaweed, that’s what happens when you imm…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and th…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
19. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
20. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
21. Antiquity
By: Hanna Johansson
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish auth… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- fantasy
- audiobook
23. Catchpenny
By: Charlie Huston
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual wor… read more
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- novels
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
24. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. Attaquer la terre et le soleil
By: Mathieu Belezi
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Attaquer la terre et le soleil narre le destin d’une poignée de colons et de soldats pris dans l’en… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Call Me Zebra
By: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
2.86
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A feisty heroine’s quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature, even as she navigates… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I have been pushed by the world into a state of psychic feudalism. and you want me to make myself vulnerable to you. How much vulnerability do you think one person can take? Do you want me to rip my …"-Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra
"I, Zebra, am recrossing borders I have already crossed in order to map the literature of the void and prove once and for all that any thought worth preserving in our pitiable human record was manifes…"-Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra
"A love I was in no position to receive despite desperately needing it. No. Not I with my castaway, homeless body. Where would I store it? It would fall right through me, sink into the depths of my vo…"-Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra
27. Where There Was Fire
By: John Manuel Arias
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from risi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
28. Storia di mia vita
By: Janek Gorczyca
3.53
Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition
La storia di Janek, un polacco che vive a Roma da più di trent’anni, senza casa, senza documenti o … read more
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- fiction
29. Users
By: Colin Winnette
2.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
30. Ghostroots: Stories
By: 'Pemi Aguda
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more
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- literature
- fiction
31. A Beautiful Nothing
By: Enrico Terrinoni
3.14
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Questo primo, affascinante romanzo di Enrico Terrinoni, ricco di rimandi letterari e suggestioni ar… read more
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