Francisco
By: Alison Mills Newman
3.85
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Alison Mills Newman’s novel Francisco—"profoundly underappreciated" (NY Times) has long been out of…
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1. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
2. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
3. Lucy
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in pape… read more
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4. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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5. Gorilla, My Love
By: Toni Cade Bambara
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable,… read more
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6. Love Junkie
By: Robert Plunket
4.50
Format: None pages,
The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more
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7. Dictee
By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. 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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"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
10. 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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- womens
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"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
11. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
12. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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13. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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14. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- literature
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15. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
16. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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17. Francisco
By: Alison Mills Newman
3.85
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Alison Mills Newman’s novel Francisco—"profoundly underappreciated" (NY Times) has long been out of… read more
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18. The Princess of 72nd Street
By: Elaine Kraf
3.95
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and thoroughly feminist “cult classic” (The New Yorker) about a smart, sensitive, yet… read more
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19. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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20. 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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"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
21. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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