A Lucky Man
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.91
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relati…
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1. Get in Trouble
By: Kelly Link
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
2. Los arboles caídos también son el bosque
By: Alejandra Kamiya
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
La estructura de estos cuentos es una cuidada cadena de precision: nada de lo que la autora escribe… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
3. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
By: Danielle Evans
4.10
Format: 271 pages,
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Selfoffers a bold new perspective on the experience of being you… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
4. The Swimming-Pool Library
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more
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- fiction
5. The Dig
By: Cynan Jones
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
This is a searing short novel, built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a disconsolat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Sunset and Sawdust
By: Joe R. Lansdale
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the middle of a cyclone, beautiful, red-haired Sunset Jones shoots her husband Pete dead when he… read more
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- fiction
7. Everything I Found on the Beach
By: Cynan Jones
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A dark tale of slavery, immigration, and murder set on the west coast of Wales, this is a startling… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
8. What is Not Yours is Not Yours
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock element… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
9. The Loss of All Lost Things
By: Amina Gautier
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The fifteen stories in The Loss of All Lost Things explore the unpredictable ways in which characte… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
10. Lost In The City
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages,
A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women i… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- short stories
- fiction
- african american
11. Cove
By: Cynan Jones
4.02
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
12. Native Guard
By: Natasha Trethewey
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethe… read more
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13. Townie
By: Andre Dubus III
4.11
Format: 288 pages,
An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him -… read more
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14. Magic for Beginners
By: Kelly Link , Shelley Jackson
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut… read more
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15. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- contemporary
16. Brooklyn Crime Novel
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.52
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
17. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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- american
18. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. A Lucky Man
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.91
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relati… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- american
- race
- realistic fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
20. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
21. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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