A Shock
By: Keith Ridgway
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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1. The Swimming-Pool Library
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more
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- novels
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2. Woes of the True Policeman
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policemanis Rob… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
3. At Swim, Two Boys
By: Jamie O'Neill
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Praised as "a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement" by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O'Nei… read more
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- fiction
- ireland
- gay
- lgbt
4. How to Set a Fire and Why
By: Jesse Ball
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Lucia's father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; she's living in a garage-turned-bedroo… read more
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5. Madness is Better Than Defeat
By: Ned Beauman
4.30
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one inte… read more
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6. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
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- contemporary
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
7. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- audiobook
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
8. The Whale Tattoo
By: Jon Ransom
3.75
Format: None pages, None
Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
9. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
10. Pity
By: Andrew McMillan
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
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- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
11. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
12. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture
By: Annie Ernaux
4.15
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more
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13. Box Hill
By: Adam Mars-Jones
3.56
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Box Hill is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
14. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
15. Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas
By: Roberto Bolaño
3.56
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Lat… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Si el Paraíso, para ser Paraíso, propicia un vasto Infierno, el deber del poeta es convertir el Paraíso en Infierno"-Roberto Bolaño, Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas
16. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
17. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
18. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
19. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
20. A Lucky Man
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.91
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relati… read more
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- short stories
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21. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
22. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
23. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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- lgbt
24. An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
By: Paul Dalla Rosa
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
'Voyeuristically addictive, funny, and deceptively simple' Halle Butler, author of The New Me Wh… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Greenland
By: David Santos Donaldson
3.80
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young auth… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- novels
26. Paul
By: Daisy Lafarge
3.49
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tend… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
27. A Shock
By: Keith Ridgway
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new no… read more
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- literary fiction
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
28. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
29. Sterling Karat Gold
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and … read more
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- lgbt
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30. Reinhardt's Garden
By: Mark Haber
3.89
Format: 154 pages, ebook
At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets… read more
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- literary fiction
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"... Living with a conscience constitutes a merciless barrier to happiness..."-Mark Haber, Reinhardt's Garden
31. Toward Eternity
By: Anton Hur
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more
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