What We Fed to the Manticore
By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur…
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1. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
2. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
3. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- adult
- animals
- nature
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
4. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- adult
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
5. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
6. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
7. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- literary fiction
- animals
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
8. 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
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
9. The Consequences: Stories
By: Manuel Muñoz
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Shimmering stories set in California’s Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso s… read more
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- fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
10. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Green Frog: Stories
By: Gina Chung
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
12. First Comes Summer
By: Maria Hesselager
3.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Winding seamlessly between the psychological and the mythological, the spellbinding story of a youn… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- short stories
- adult
14. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
15. Harry Sylvester Bird
By: Chinelo Okparanta
3.24
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant,… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. What We Fed to the Manticore
By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more
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- short story collection
- animals
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- nature
17. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
18. We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
By: Dahr Jamail
4.47
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis an… read more
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- nature
19. When Trying to Return Home: Stories
By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Ric… read more
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- anthologies
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- contemporary
- adult
20. Concerning the Future of Souls
By: Joy Williams
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more
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- fiction
21. Hombrecito
By: Santiago Jose Sanchez
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more
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- contemporary
