Girl Like a Bomb
By: Autumn Christian
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Autumn Christian's third novel is a dark journey of self-discovery. An existential labyrinth of lo…
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1. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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- erotica
- horror
- fiction
- lgbt
2. All of Her Men
By: None
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Jolene enjoys her privacy. She's always been a woman with lots of secrets. That is, until she begin… read more
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3. 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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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"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
4. 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
- magical realism
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
"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
5. 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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- adult
- lgbt
"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
6. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
7. Yes, Daddy
By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage
3.59
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
8. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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- horror
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
9. The Night Guest
By: Hildur Knútsdóttir
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
10. All Girls
By: Emily Layden
3.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England p… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
11. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
"Remembering is the death of mercy."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
12. American Narcissus
By: Chandler Morrison
4.31
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The American dream is dead, and Los Angeles is burning. Hopeless and anesthetized, four lost souls … read more
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- fiction
- horror
13. Waif
By: Samantha Kolesnik
3.55
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Angela has everything she thought she ever wanted—a successful husband, a lavish house, and a botto… read more
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- horror
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
14. You Were There Too
By: Colleen Oakley
3.88
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, her loving husband, and dreams of… read more
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- adult
- magical realism
- fiction
15. Animal
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.Joan has spent … read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"Let me tell you something, he said, looking into my eyes like an asshole."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had the fear of angering a man. Of not being an amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"He looked a little wounded, and I realized that true power came from not caring about anyone. That was the last time I would sleep with a man. I was through with the gender."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
16. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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- lgbt
17. Girl Like a Bomb
By: Autumn Christian
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Autumn Christian's third novel is a dark journey of self-discovery. An existential labyrinth of lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- bizarro fiction
- erotica
- fiction
- horror
- womens
- adult
- fantasy
18. Supper Club
By: Lara Williams
3.46
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who mee… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
19. Hysteria
By: Jessica Gross
3.03
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual ben… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
20. Hexis
By: Charlene Elsby
3.75
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
I'm not relentless. "Relentless" makes it sound like there's something called "relent" and that I'm… read more
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- fiction
- horror
21. Kill For Love
By: Laura Picklesimer
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- horror
