A Life of Adventure and Delight
By: Akhil Sharma
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and criti…
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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- short stories
- adult
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
2. Girls Burn Brighter
By: Shobha Rao
3.77
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, about a once-in-a-lifetime friendship… read more
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- adult fiction
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- india
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- contemporary
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"What is love if not a hunger."-Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter
"What is love if not a hunger?"-Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter
"There is no way to explain a thing that is perfect."-Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter
"Fear was no good, but neither was the monotony of fear."-Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter
3. An Atlas of Impossible Longing
By: Anuradha Roy
5.00
Format: 229 pages,
On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Her… read more
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5. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
6. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- contemporary
- adult
7. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- adult fiction
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8. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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9. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- indian literature
- india
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- contemporary
- adult
"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
10. Tomb Sweeping
By: Alexandra Chang
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
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11. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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12. Pizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
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- contemporary
"I began to picture the world without me in it."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
13. A Life of Adventure and Delight
By: Akhil Sharma
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and criti… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- unfinished
- asia
- indian literature
- short stories
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
14. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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- asia
- literary fiction
- fiction
15. Flowers of Mold
By: Ha Seong-nan
3.54
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Praised for her meticulous descriptions and ability to transform the mundanity of everyday life int… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
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- contemporary
- adult
16. Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.76
Format: 800 pages, ebook
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker si… read more
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17. Permanent Record
By: Mary H.K. Choi
3.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After a year of college, Pablo is working at his local twenty-four-hour deli, selling overpriced sn… read more
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- contemporary
"Families are a trip,"-Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record
"Even in this rich-ass neighborhood, I suspect we’re all pretty much fucked."-Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record
"Why do things cost what they do in New York? How am I expected to survive here?"-Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record
"What is modern society’s obsession with wiping out all diversity and nuance in favor of cheap, shoddy monoliths?"-Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record
18. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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- india
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19. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- india
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- adult
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
20. Gold Diggers
By: Sanjena Sathian
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An Indian-American magical realist coming of age story, spanning two continents, two coasts, and fo… read more
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- literary fiction
- india
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- contemporary
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"We were both conceptual orphans. Perhaps that is the condition of any second generation. In the space between us and the rest of adulthood lay a great expanse of the unknown. We had not grown up imbi…"-Sanjena Sathian, Gold Diggers
21. Days of Distraction
By: Alexandra Chang
3.58
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender portrait of a young woman — finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she kn… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"What greater loneliness and longing is there than living with someone you once knew so well, and who is now hardly around?"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from t…"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"❝It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"And from those brief moments I was living with a certainty that I was exactly where I should be, where everything is deeply quiet and deeply alive. I thought about the many aspects in this life that …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
