Hurricane Girl
By: Marcy Dermansky
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice (“A cupcake that turns out to be nutri…
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. 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
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"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
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
- 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. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
5. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
6. 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
- humor
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- contemporary
- novels
- 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
7. Margo's Got Money Troubles
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I’m just saying,"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
8. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
9. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
10. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
11. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
12. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
13. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
14. 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
- 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
15. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
16. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
17. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
18. 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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- romance
- 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
19. Cult Classic
By: Sloane Crosley
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully cra… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French."-Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic
20. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
21. 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
- horror
- adult
22. 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
- adult
- audiobook
"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
23. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
24. NSFW
By: Isabel Kaplan
3.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively readable―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
25. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
26. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
27. One's Company
By: Ashley Hutson
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read… read more
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- literary fiction
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"-Ashley Hutson, One's Company
28. Exalted
By: Anna Dorn
3.73
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the ou… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
29. Hurricane Girl
By: Marcy Dermansky
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice (“A cupcake that turns out to be nutri… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
30. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
31. Florida Woman
By: Deb Rogers
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A gleefully dark and entertaining debut for fans of Kevin Wilson and Karen Russell, about one young… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- audiobook