We Cast a Shadow
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who wil…
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1. The Between
By: Tananarive Due
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- horror
2. So Far from God
By: Ana Castillo
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love … read more
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3. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- horror
4. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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- race
- audiobook
5. 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
6. Here Lies
By: Olivia Clare Friedman
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A visceral and portentous look at mourning, memory, and motherhood in an alternate Louisiana ravage… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- literary fiction
- fiction
7. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
8. Her Hidden Past (Rosemary Run, #2)
By: Kelly Utt
3.61
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
Bea Hughes had put the past behind her. Until an anonymous caller phoned to say they knew what she'… read more
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- fiction
9. We Cast a Shadow
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who wil… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- horror
- african american
- audiobook
10. The Book of Ayn
By: Lexi Freiman
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn
11. Say Hello to My Little Friend
By: Jennine Capó Crucet
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- audiobook
13. No More Police: A Case for Abolition
By: Mariame Kaba
4.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more
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- race
14. The Red Car
By: Marcy Dermansky
3.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In her “dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups” (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky off… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
"While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen."-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
"I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I …"-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
15. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
By: Craig DiLouie
3.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- fiction
- horror
16. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
17. Somna
By: Becky Cloonan
4.18
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
BECKY CLOONAN and TULA LOTAY - both writing and drawing a graphic novel together for the FIRST TIME… read more
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- fiction
- horror
18. No Road Home
By: John Fram
3.84
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangel… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- horror
19. The Bang-Bang Sisters
By: Rio Youers
3.86
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
20. The Parking Lot Attendant
By: Nafkote Tamirat
3.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father are the two new… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
"There are people who help you and people who hurt you. You keep the former. You keep the former until they become the latter and hope that you never hurt the former."-Nafkote Tamirat, The Parking Lot Attendant
21. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
