Something New Under the Sun
By: Alexandra Kleeman
3.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with a…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Why was the only choice paper or plastic, rathern than being able to choose to buy nothing at all?"-Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun
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1. The Clasp
By: Sloane Crosley
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Hardcover
Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at t… read more
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2. Square Wave
By: Mark de Silva
4.01
Format: 511 pages,
"A brilliant debut, ambitious with its ideas, extraordinary in their syntheses and execution, and i… read more
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4. All Our Names
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
All Our Namesis the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from… read more
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5. 99 Stories of God
By: Joy Williams
4.09
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williamshas a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing … read more
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6. The Man with the Compound Eyes
By: Wu Ming-Yi , Darryl Sterk
3.89
Format: 202 pages, ebook
On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice … read more
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7. The Answers
By: Catherine Lacey
3.59
Format: 32 pages,
An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more
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8. The Glacier
By: None
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"Call Jeff Wood's The Glacierwhat you will--a novel-in-screenplay-form; a prose poem on the themes … read more
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9. Harrow
By: Joy Williams
3.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary … read more
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10. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
11. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
12. Oval
By: Elvia Wilk
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to … read more
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"The audience sat on collapsible stool-like things made of folded recyclable cardboard that existed for no reason other than to not be normal chairs. To subvert “the chair."-Elvia Wilk, Oval
"the water of my race walks with O’Reilly soft touch absorbent infallible pro-aging bamboo follicles who will inherit the earth misty plum [Gong noise] when your hair is on, you’re on fire"-Elvia Wilk, Oval
"But if someone decides that our heating and cooling are unnatural, what’s next? Then someone will decide that clean water is fake, and then someone will decide that LEDs are fake, and then someone wi…"-Elvia Wilk, Oval
"That's how it was: boys got to believe their private lives were extricable from their politics–I read feminist theory so it's irrelevant that my girlfriend's career is subordinate to my own; it has n…"-Elvia Wilk, Oval
13. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
14. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
15. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
By: Claire Vaye Watkins
3.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse--one woman's furious revisiting … read more
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16. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
17. Something New Under the Sun
By: Alexandra Kleeman
3.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with a… read more
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"Why was the only choice paper or plastic, rathern than being able to choose to buy nothing at all?"-Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun
18. Barn 8
By: Deb Olin Unferth
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers Two auditors… read more
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"Qu'est-ce qu'on a à se laisser écraser par l'ennemi, pendant qu'on se contente de bredouiller poliment qu'on n'est pas d'accord ?"-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8
"Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et …"-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8
"Si le cerveau des mammifères a évolué selon une certaine voie, celui des oiseaux en a suivi une autre . Progression dynamique plutôt que stagnation reptilienne. Au lieu de se déployer à la surface en…"-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8
19. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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20. Escape From Portsrood Forest
By: Samuel Isaacson
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Reviews"Charming and whimsical, with sinister undertones." -David Lowrie, Black Dog Gamebooks "Ach… read more
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21. Virtue
By: Hermione Hoby
3.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible: … read more
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