Stargazer
By: Laurie Petrou
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the …
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1. Acts of Desperation
By: Megan Nolan
3.74
Format: 288 pages, None
In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I didn't want her near me, because she was the only one able to see me for what I was, but I couldn't lose her for the very same reason."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
2. 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
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
"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
3. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
4. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
5. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
6. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
7. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
8. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
9. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
10. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
11. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
12. Wet Paint
By: Chloë Ashby
3.79
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything an… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
13. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
14. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
15. Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
16. Stargazer
By: Laurie Petrou
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the … read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- womens
- coming of age
- mental health
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
17. Berlin
By: Bea Setton
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
18. Tennis Lessons
By: Susannah Dickey
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
19. Just for Today
By: Nell Hudson
3.83
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
'A yearning, tenderly bruising beauty of a book and a brilliant portrayal of friendship in the roar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Young Women
By: Jessica Moor
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and da… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
