Go Home, Ricky!
By: Gene Kwak
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From a rising literary star comes a fresh, satirical novel about masculinity and tenderness, father…
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1. The Mezzanine
By: Nicholson Baker
4.35
Format: None pages,
Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more
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2. The Radetzky March
By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more
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3. The People of Paper
By: Salvador Plascencia
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Amidst disillusioned saints hiding in wrestling rings, mothers burnt by glowing halos, and a Baby N… read more
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4. Room Temperature
By: Nicholson Baker
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
A story in which the author examines the little details of home life. The action takes place in the… read more
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5. Ric Flair: To Be the Man
By: Keith Elliot Greenberg , Ric Flair
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Woooooo! (tm)" With that triumphant cry, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair surpassed his predecessors and his… read more
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6. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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7. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
8. Do You Remember Being Born?
By: Sean Michaels
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more
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"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
9. MOX
By: Jon Moxley
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the… read more
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10. The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
By: Brad Balukjian
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn’t listen. From the bestselling author of… read more
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11. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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12. Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary… read more
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"She vomited casually into the toilet…"-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Three days ago the doctor had put her at six weeks and no one knew except Liam and her best friend Pia. Maybe the dog."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Love requires a bareness, a certain pliability, and I didn't thrill at the possibility of being transformed or wiped away."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
13. The Novelist
By: Jordan Castro
3.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more
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14. Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues
By: Matt Jackson
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
"The Young Bucks are two guys who not only beat the odds to become one of the greatest, most popula… read more
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15. The Book of Love
By: Kelly Link
3.50
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more
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16. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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17. Go Home, Ricky!
By: Gene Kwak
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From a rising literary star comes a fresh, satirical novel about masculinity and tenderness, father… read more
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18. Fifty Sounds
By: Polly Barton
4.15
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of… read more
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"Over time, I have come to believe that if language learning is anything, it is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable …"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Very often a desire to write is a desire to live more honestly through language' (Rachel Cusk)…In writing, one can be at a remove not only from the observing eye of society, but also from the somatic…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
19. Fruiting Bodies: Stories
By: Kathryn Harlan
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more
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20. Cartoons
By: Kit Schluter
4.07
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of ou… read more
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21. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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