Objects of Desire: Stories
By: Clare Sestanovich
3.34
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disa…
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1. Emerald City
By: Jennifer Egan
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
The theme of longing in all its forms-for change, for redemption, for travel outside the bounds of … read more
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2. Dear Cyborgs
By: Eugene Lim
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A fractal fable about the possibility and power of protest as told by three superheroes on their lu… read more
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3. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
4. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
5. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
6. New Animal
By: Ella Baxter
3.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
7. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
8. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
10. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
11. Berlin
By: Bea Setton
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. Emergency
By: Kathleen Alcott
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A woman finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of an art … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
14. Objects of Desire: Stories
By: Clare Sestanovich
3.34
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disa… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- new york
- short story collection
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. Three Rooms
By: Jo Hamya
3.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman’s endless quest for an apartment of her own and th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"Now, even to me, it seemed ridiculous to concede that I had accumulated substantial debt and a few degrees so that I might contractually labor for the sake of having two free days a week in which to …"-Jo Hamya, Three Rooms
16. Adult Drama: And Other Essays
By: Natalie Beach
3.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- audiobook
17. Daughter
By: Claudia Dey
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
19. March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
By: Kate Bolick
3.61
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
Four acclaimed female authors—including Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley and In the Dream House au… read more
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- literature
- audiobook
"I do believe that books seep into us and change us in ways we can’t keep track of."-Kate Bolick, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
"We are hardest on the people who mirror the shadowy parts of ourselves. The parts we don’t want to see."-Kate Bolick, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
"Perhaps Louisa didn't need to detail what Marmee is so angry about nearly every day of her life. To be a woman is to know anger. To be underestimated, treated as inferior, have one's concerns classif…"-Kate Bolick, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
20. Show Them a Good Time
By: Nicole Flattery
3.23
Format: 257 pages, None
A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that wome… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Comedy is tragedy sped up."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"I don't like anybody my own age."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"a feeling of forever melancholy . . ."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"What have I done to deserve this life?"-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
21. Glory Days: Stories
By: Simon Rich
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Audiobook
The new collection of stories capturing the travails of aging Millennials from “one of the funniest… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
