I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th…
Want to Read $ 9.99"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
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1. The Seventh Horse And Other Tales
By: Leonora Carrington
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
This collection of Carrington's fiction, the most comprehensive so far, includes a novella and 18 s… read more
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2. The Seas
By: Samantha Hunt
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
The narrator of The Seaslives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chamb… read more
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3. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
4. 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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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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
5. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
6. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
7. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
8. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
9. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- contemporary
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
10. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
11. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- audiobook
12. Out There
By: Kate Folk
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
13. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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- audiobook
16. 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
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- 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
17. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.14
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
18. Bonding
By: Maggie Siebert
4.13
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
19. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
20. Shit Cassandra Saw
By: Gwen E. Kirby
3.83
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking po… read more
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- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
21. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
22. How Strange a Season
By: Megan Mayhew Bergman
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
23. That Time of Year
By: Marie NDiaye
3.19
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Herman’s wife and child are nowhere to be found, and the weather in the village, perfectly agreeabl… read more
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- literary fiction
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
24. Så mye hadde jeg
By: Trude Marstein
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Monika er 13 år og vet at alt hun opplever, en gang skal tilhøre en annen tid. Hun er 27 år og elsk… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Valleyesque: Stories
By: Fernando A. Flores
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose reality? What rules? --Jean Chen H… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
26. Wiosenna noc / Zamek z lodu
By: Tarjei Vesaas
3.48
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
ARCYDZIEŁA NORWESKIEJ KLASYKI W NOWYM TŁUMACZENIU Czternastoletni Hallstein wraz z siostrą zosta… read more
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- fiction
27. Heartbroke
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Godshot and “a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. Verge
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
29. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
30. The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
By: Sandra Fox
3.74
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to p… read more
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31. Mystery Lights
By: Lena Valencia
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows w… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- audiobook
