You Know You Want This
By: Kristen Roupenian
3.62
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I'm a nice guy, I swear to fucking God."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"She wants what she wants," Kath says. Don't we all?"-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"Frankly, the whole concept was a little too New Age—y for me."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"He had no faith in love's capacity to cause him anything but pain."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
2. Conjunto vacío
By: Verónica Gerber Bicecci
3.59
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
Conjunto vacio cuenta la historia de Veronica, hija de exiliados argentinos, que vive en la Ciudad … read more
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- fiction
3. Five Moral Pieces
By: Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Embracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to … read more
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4. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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5. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in "The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares" Joyce Ca… read more
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6. Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor
By: Melikşah Altuntaş
3.35
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“Arkamda yaylılar çalıyor. Biri bir filmde ya da dizide gururla yürüdüğünde çaldığı gibi. Hep hüzün… read more
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- fiction
7. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
8. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
9. Bir Ada İcat Etmek
By: Alain Gillot
4.18
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Çin’de bir şantiyede çalışırken, yedi yaşındaki oğlu Tom’un öldüğünü öğrenen Dani, haberi alır alma… read more
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10. The Appointment
By: Katharina Volckmer
3.53
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligma… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
11. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
12. Gittersee
By: Charlotte Gneuß
3.89
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Jürgen Ponto-Preis 2023 1976, im Dresdner Vorort Gittersee: Karin ist 16, … read more
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"Ein älterer Mann stand um die Ecke und rauchte. Er zwinkerte mir zu. Sie haben da was am Auge, rief ich ihm zu, so Zuckungen, würd ich behandeln lassen."-Charlotte Gneuß, Gittersee
13. You Know You Want This
By: Kristen Roupenian
3.62
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short story collection
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"I'm a nice guy, I swear to fucking God."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"She wants what she wants," Kath says. Don't we all?"-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"Frankly, the whole concept was a little too New Age—y for me."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
"He had no faith in love's capacity to cause him anything but pain."-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
14. Modern Times
By: Cathy Sweeney
3.19
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
A woman orders a sex doll for her husband’s birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
15. De verworvenheden
By: Jan van Tienen
3.69
Format: None pages, None
De verworvenheden, of hoe je iemand wordt die ernaar verlangt op het eiland Hompelvoet te zijn doet… read more
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16. Al final del miedo
By: Cecilia Eudave
3.73
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Cecilia Eudave es una referencia en el género de lo insólito y lo fantásticos en la literatura mexi… read more
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17. Lost Cat
By: Mary Gaitskill
4.09
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
‘Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is pr… read more
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"Who decides which… deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little? Is it a matter of numbers or physical mass or intelligence? If you are a little creature or a littl…"-Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat
18. Sadistas
By: Asta Padagaitė
3.52
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
„Visi vienodai liūdi, vienodai myli ir vienodai šika. Visi nori meilės ir visi būna vieniši. Visi v… read more
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19. La península de las casas vacías
By: David Uclés
4.47
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
UNA NOVELA SOBRE TODA LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA EN CLAVE DE REALISMO MÁGICO. La historia de un so… read more
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- fiction
20. Małe pająki
By: Łukasz Barys
3.47
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
(Nie)zwykłe życie. Miłość, literatura i poszukiwanie własnej drogi. Nowa powieść laureata Paszpo… read more
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21. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
