Black Light
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.79
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden plac…
Want to Read $ 12.99"It's me, it's me, it's me."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Death is just a countdown to the calm"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Every mother rages sometimes--this is called "parenting."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"I ask her: Wouldn't it be easier to just give death a different name?"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
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1. Often I Am Happy
By: Jens Christian Grøndahl
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
"Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; / For no heart fully shares my joy." -B.S. Ingemann Ellino… read more
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2. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- audiobook
3. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
4. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
5. Butcher
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
6. 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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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
7. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
8. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
9. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
10. The Hunter's Daughter
By: Nicola Solvinic
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a not… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
11. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- audiobook
12. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
14. Black Light
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.79
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden plac… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- american
- lgbt
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"It's me, it's me, it's me."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Death is just a countdown to the calm"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Every mother rages sometimes--this is called "parenting."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"I ask her: Wouldn't it be easier to just give death a different name?"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
15. Bad Animals
By: Sarah Braunstein
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation throu… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- audiobook
16. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
17. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- short stories
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- contemporary
- audiobook
18. La trilogía de París
By: Colombe Schneck
3.86
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
LA REVELACIÓN LITERARIA LLEGA DE FRANCIA La premiada Colombe Schneck «retrata la búsqueda de una… read more
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- literary fiction
19. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- audiobook
20. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Manywhere: Stories
By: Morgan Thomas
3.81
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra… read more
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- audiobook
- short story collection
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
22. Mother Doll
By: Katya Apekina
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
23. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
24. Women! In! Peril!
By: Jessie Ren Marshall
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this brash and unputdownable collection, award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall invites us… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
25. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- audiobook
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
26. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
27. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
29. The Human Zoo
By: Sabina Murray
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Filipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape… read more
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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
30. Beautiful Days: Stories
By: Zach Williams
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a stagg… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
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31. Madwoman
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more
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- contemporary
