The Worst Kind of Want
By: Liska Jacobs
3.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, dea…
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1. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- 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
2. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
3. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- 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
4. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
5. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- 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
6. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
7. In Defence of the Act
By: Effie Black
4.12
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
8. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"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
9. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
10. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- 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
11. The Sleepwalkers
By: Scarlett Thomas
3.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
12. Perfect (The Genesis Trilogy, #1)
By: L.A. Kessler
3.34
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Perfection.Juliet Huff’s life depends on it.She’s never been outside, had friends over, or attend… read more
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- fiction
13. The Divorcées
By: Rowan Beaird
3.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- 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
16. Bad Fruit
By: Ella King
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of My Dark Vanessa and Celeste Ng, Bad Fruit is an unforgettable portrayal of a toxic moth… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. A Touch of Jen
By: Beth Morgan
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
18. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- drama
"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
19. Love & Other Scams
By: Philip Ellis
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
You are cordially invited to a crime extravaganza: two con artists join forces to pull off a huge s… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Animals Eat Each Other
By: Elle Nash
3.48
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
21. The Fortune Seller
By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale e… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller
22. Stargazer
By: Laurie Petrou
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the … read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
23. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
24. The Worst Kind of Want
By: Liska Jacobs
3.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, dea… read more
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- italy
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- travel
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- womens
- novels
- drama
25. The Harpy
By: Megan Hunter
3.31
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
26. little scratch
By: Rebecca Watson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Vagablonde
By: Anna Dorn
3.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Weeds
By: Katy Simpson Smith
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.A Mississip… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"You can't demand love. Not expect it, not wait for it, not want it. It comes on air like a scent."-Katy Simpson Smith, The Weeds
29. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
30. Temper
By: Phoebe Walker
3.15
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
There’ s a gap where my sense of place should be. It’ s quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Permission
By: Saskia Vogel
3.20
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Echo is a failing actress who prefers to lose herself in the lives of others rather than examine he… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Because we never finished what we started, because it never was allowed to reach a natural close, our ending felt unwritten. I imagined other endings and how they would have defined me, and because I…"-Saskia Vogel, Permission
