Tell the Machine Goodnight
By: Katie Williams
3.46
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
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Want to Read $ 4.99"Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing."-Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight
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1. Perla
By: Carolina De Robertis
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
With her distinctive storytelling abilities and indelibly drawn characters, Carolina De Robertis il… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away."-Carolina De Robertis, Perla
"I wondered whether I had gone insane. If so, I thought, then this is what it feels like; I would never have guessed the world would still appear so sharp and vivid, the streets the same, the clouds t…"-Carolina De Robertis, Perla
"What makes the self? Experiences. Acculturation. What else? I don't know. What's within you. She says, I don't know what was within me and what got put there by my life as it was lived. You can never…"-Carolina De Robertis, Perla
"But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving s…"-Carolina De Robertis, Perla
2. New People
By: Danzy Senna
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manne… read more
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3. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
4. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
5. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
6. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
7. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
8. Bridge
By: Lauren Beukes
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
9. 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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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
" 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
10. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- audiobook
11. Tell the Machine Goodnight
By: Katie Williams
3.46
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommenda… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing."-Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight
12. Parasol Against the Axe
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more
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- literary fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
13. Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
3.83
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
14. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
By: Molly McGhee
3.50
Format: 304 pages, None
Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
15. The Daughter Ship
By: Boo Trundle
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the conce… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
16. How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
By: Jill Burke
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book o… read more
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- adult
17. Please Report Your Bug Here
By: Josh Riedel
3.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
18. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
19. Wrong Way
By: Joanne McNeil
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For years, Teresa has passed from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, strugg… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
20. Zed
By: Joanna Kavenna
3.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
21. Sweet and Low: Stories
By: Nick White
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
At first glance, the stories in Sweet and Low seem grounded in the everyday: they paint pictures of… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
