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…
Want to Read $ 11.99"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 myself. I wished someone had told me that sooner."-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-ins for the people we were eventually supposed to meet."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
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1. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- novels
- adult
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
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
- 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. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
4. 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
- adult
- audiobook
"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
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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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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. A Certain Hunger
By: Chelsea G. Summers
3.77
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Doro… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
"I enjoy a man who’s kissed with a yeasty beastliness."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
"Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
"I knew from a young age that motherhood was a cage I never wanted to inhabit."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
7. 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
8. 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
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
9. 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
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
- adult
- audiobook
"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. 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
- food
- 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
12. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
13. 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
14. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
15. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
16. 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
17. Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
18. 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
- adult
- audiobook
"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
19. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
20. Post-Traumatic
By: Chantal V. Johnson
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
21. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- feminism
- food
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
