Being Lolita: A Memoir
By: Alisson Wood
4.20
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high …
Want to Read $ 11.99"Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be both beautiful and in open need, to be damaged."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin. And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal kissing cinder-block walls. It felt just like that."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
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1. The Virgin Suicides
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out… read more
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- coming of age
- contemporary
- mental health
"She was the still point in the turning world."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
2. Innocents
By: Cathy Coote
0.00
Format: 798 pages,
Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatom… read more
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- contemporary
3. Excavation: A Memoir
By: Wendy C. Ortiz
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
4. Tampa
By: Alissa Nutting
3.59
Format: 83 pages, ebook
Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. Sh… read more
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5. Taming the Beast
By: Emily Maguire
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher,… read more
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6. Lolita
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more
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"There was no Lo to behold."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"My little cup brims with tiddles."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
7. Eileen
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more
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8. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- feminism
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
9. Acts of Desperation
By: Megan Nolan
3.74
Format: 288 pages, None
In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I didn't want her near me, because she was the only one able to see me for what I was, but I couldn't lose her for the very same reason."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
10. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
11. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
12. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
13. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
14. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- contemporary
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
15. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- coming of age
- audiobook
- contemporary
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
16. Down the Drain
By: Julia Fox
4.40
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"-Julia Fox, Down the Drain
17. 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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- coming of age
- audiobook
- contemporary
18. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
19. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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- contemporary
- audiobook
- mental health
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
20. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
21. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
By: Sarah Weinman
3.42
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
7 Hours and 26 Minutes Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
22. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
23. My Dark Vanessa
By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.10
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage gir… read more
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- contemporary
- audiobook
- mental health
"To be groomed is to be loved and handled like a precious, delicate thing"-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
"I don’t feel forced, and I know I have the power to say no, but that isn’t the same as being in charge."-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
"He's always going to be old. He has to be. That's the only way I can stay young and dripping with beauty."-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
"I think we're very similar, Nessa," he whispers. "From the way you write, I can tell you're a dark romantic like me. You like dark things."-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
24. Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more
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- coming of age
- audiobook
- contemporary
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
25. Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
3.83
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- contemporary
26. Being Lolita: A Memoir
By: Alisson Wood
4.20
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- coming of age
- feminism
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be bot…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin. And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal k…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
27. Putney
By: Sofka Zinovieff
3.95
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes. ~Ralph"-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney
"Everything flows. You never step into the same river twice. Everything is changing all the time. ~Ralph"-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney
"A slow-motion hunt so gradual that the prey didn’t even realise it was being pursued, and would eventually just lie down to be mauled. ~Jane"-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney
"It is quite a big deal. It's so extraordinary that we female humans should be linked to the moon and the tides. It'd sound like science fiction if you made it up – mysterious planetary forces making …"-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney
28. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Swanna in Love
By: Jennifer Belle
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more
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- coming of age
- contemporary
30. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Once More from the Top
By: Emily Layden
3.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive, layered novel about the meteoric rise of a legendary pop star and the secret she’s ke… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
