2 A.M. in Little America
By: Ken Kalfus
3.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in…
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1. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- 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
2. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
By: Alison Espach
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
3. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
4. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
5. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
6. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
7. An Island
By: Karen Jennings
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
8. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
9. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
By: Debra Magpie Earling
3.66
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges pr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Do not trust anyone who tells you there is only one story. If there were only one story or one way of seeing things all stories would die."-Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
10. Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.54
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- audiobook
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
11. Mercury Pictures Presents
By: Anthony Marra
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
12. Mouth to Mouth
By: Antoine Wilson
3.67
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
13. 2 A.M. in Little America
By: Ken Kalfus
3.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- literature
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
14. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
15. The Shamshine Blind
By: Paz Pardo
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon an… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- audiobook
16. American Mermaid
By: Julia Langbein
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more
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- literary fiction
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"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
17. The Auburn Conference
By: Tom Piazza
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic yo… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
18. X
By: Davey Davis
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
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- audiobook
19. My Volcano
By: John Elizabeth Stintzi
3.54
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock is spotted by a jogger growing from the Central Park Reservoi… read more
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"His Farsi laden with a mat of nostalgia"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"And so here - after then, and after that - we are"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"In his little apartment, alone, Ash set his cocktail of alarms"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"On that page, they began to write a new book - a book without research. A book about a mountain. A volcano . Their volcano."-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
20. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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21. Cyclorama
By: Adam Langer
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The deeply moving, propulsive story of ten teenagers brought together by a high school production o… read more
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- contemporary
