Want
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely p…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I wonder if any family, after too long trying and failing to love another, can hear one another's words beyond all the ways that they fall short."-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
"I wonder if any family, after too long trying and failing to love another, can hear one another's words beyond all the ways that they fall short."-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
"At least with hate you know what you are getting. Love like that, you forget sometimes it's not love, that it's empty, all words and performance, and still sometimes you grab at it, thinking maybe it will give what love's supposed to give."-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
"At least with hate you know what you are getting. Love like that, you forget sometimes it's not love, that it's empty, all words and performance, and still sometimes you grab at it, thinking maybe it will give what love's supposed to give."-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
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1. Harriet Said...
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.34
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Beryl Bainbridge's evocation of childhood in a rundown northern holiday resort. A girl returns f… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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2. The White Family
By: Maggie Gee
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
"Outstanding . . . tender, sexy and alarming."--Jim Crace When Alfred White, patriarch of the White… read more
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3. Commitment
By: Mona Simpson
3.62
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"He respected architecture less than he once had. Some buildings were true art. A few more worked like machines for living. But when he looked at most new buildings, what he saw was ego. So many peopl…"-Mona Simpson, Commitment
4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"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
5. 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
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
6. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
7. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
8. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
9. Ciała
By: Annie Ernaux
4.28
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Jak oddać paraliżujący strach towarzyszący niechcianej ciąży i potajemnej aborcji? Jak opisać nasto… read more
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- audiobook
10. Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
By: Klara Hveberg
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK A remarkable and hea… read more
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- adult fiction
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- womens
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"Andre folk har et liv. De glemmer. De ligger ikke under dynen som henne og samler på øyeblikk. Enda en gang er hun bare en liten flik av en annens liv. Mens han er nesten hele hennes verden."-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
"Hun sukker. "Vi kunne blitt en fin kjærlighetsroman, tror du ikke?" Han lar blikket hvile på henne. Lenge. De kloke Sankt Bernhardshund-øynene. "Vi passer nok bedre i en ensomhetsroman, du og jeg." s…"-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
"Fraktalene er også fulle av hull i ulike størrelser, og dette gjør at de kan ha en dimensjon som ikke er et helt tall. Et klassisk eksempel på en fraktal er Sierpinski-trekanten. Da starter man med e…"-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
"Może tak naprawdę on istnieje w wyższym wymiarze. Jeśli tak jest, to Bóg, projektowany do naszego wymiaru, mógłby wyglądać inaczej w zależności od tego, gdzie znajduje się patrzący. A różne na jego t…"-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
11. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
12. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
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13. Zły syn
By: Jarek Skurzyński
3.60
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Czy dziecko musi kochać rodzica? Historia matki samotnie wychowującej syna w małej, osiedlowej s… read more
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- contemporary
- audiobook
14. Chipsy dla gości
By: Natalka Suszczyńska
3.54
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Leksykon współczesności: A jak Agata, B jak boczniak, C jak chipsy, D jak Dominika, E jak emoji (z … read more
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15. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
16. Want
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely p… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- womens
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I wonder if any family, after too long trying and failing to love another, can hear one another's words beyond all the ways that they fall short."-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
"At least with hate you know what you are getting. Love like that, you forget sometimes it's not love, that it's empty, all words and performance, and still sometimes you grab at it, thinking maybe it…"-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
17. Emergency
By: Kathleen Alcott
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A woman finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of an art … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- audiobook
18. Fruwająca dusza
By: Yōko Tawada
3.42
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Japonia ze snu. Risui, bohaterka i narratorka tej przedziwnej, onirycznej powieści, trafia do szkoł… read more
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- womens
- novels
- fiction
19. Języczni. Co język robi naszej głowie
By: Jagoda Ratajczak
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Czy kiedy mówimy w obcym języku, jesteśmy sobą? Czym różnią się osoby dwujęzyczne od słowników? Czy… read more
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- audiobook
20. Thin Girls
By: Diana Clarke
3.87
Format: None pages, None
A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and que… read more
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- contemporary
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"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls
21. The Life of the Mind
By: Christine Smallwood
3.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction--"… read more
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- fiction
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22. Wpatrzeni w niebo (Saga o ludziach ziemi, #1)
By: Anna Fryczkowska
4.44
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Piękna literacka podróż do skrawka Polski sprzed 200 lat. Fascynujące losy rodziny, która potrafiła… read more
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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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- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"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. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- literary fiction
- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
25. Szwajcaria. Podróż przez raj wymyślony
By: Agnieszka Kamińska
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
- Dlaczego w szwajcarskich domach nie ma pralek? - Co bardziej dzieli Szwajcarów, "rów polenty" cz… read more
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26. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
By: Helen DeWitt
3.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
At last a new a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius Finalist for t… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The subject of food is like Chopsticks: almost anyone can improvise on it."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"Fashion is out of fashion," says X, in the tone of voice that makes you think, "quipped."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"Reflected, framed, the room had charms foreign to the original, just as an ordinary or even ugly object gains beauty and dignity when painted or photographed."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
"But if you are going to do something properly you have to plan ahead or you will end up cutting the moment wrong. Then events will be all wrinkled and puckered."-Helen DeWitt, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
27. A Celibate Season
By: Carol Shields
3.56
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which… read more
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- literary fiction
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28. Księgarnia Napojów Księżyca
By: Dongwon Seo
2.93
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Podnosząca na duchu, bajkowa opowieść fantasy dla dorosłych, idealna dla fanów książek Wszystko, cz… read more
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29. Human Blues
By: Elisa Albert
3.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From an author whose writing has been praised as “blistering” (The New Yorker), “virtuosic” (The Wa… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
30. Mrówki nie mają skrzydeł
By: Silva Gentilini
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Mrówki… to historia o cierpieniu dwóch kobiet, które dzieli pół stulecia, lecz łączy to samo okrutn… read more
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- fiction
31. Middletown
By: Sarah Moon
3.95
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen… read more
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- fiction
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