Sugar Street
By: Jonathan Dee
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of…
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1. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
2. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
3. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
4. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
5. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
6. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
7. A Line in the Sand
By: Kevin Powers
3.88
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
8. Everybody Knows
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more
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- noir
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
9. American Spirits
By: Russell Banks
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
11. The Furrows
By: Namwali Serpell
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the awar… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
12. No One Left to Come Looking for You
By: Sam Lipsyte
3.23
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- fiction
13. 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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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
16. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
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17. Sugar Street
By: Jonathan Dee
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more
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- american
- literature
- noir
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
18. The Complicities
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- crime
19. The Wheel of Doll
By: Jonathan Ames
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this… read more
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- noir
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
20. Godwin
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
