The Upstairs House
By: Julia Fine
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening—in which a postpartu…
Want to Read $ 13.49"Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song."-Julia Fine, The Upstairs House
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1. After Birth
By: Elisa Albert
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
A widely acclaimed young writer's fierce new novel, in which childbirth and new motherhood are as h… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. The Family Plot
By: Cherie Priest
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author of the enormously successful Boneshaker returns to Tor with her unique take on the class… read more
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3. The Narrows
By: Ronald Malfi
3.87
Format: 515 pages, Paperback
The town of Stillwater has a very unwelcome resident. The town of Stillwater has been dying--the lo… read more
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4. Imaginary Girls
By: Nova Ren Suma
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or c… read more
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5. The Folded Clock: A Diary
By: Heidi Julavits
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a s… read more
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6. A Perfectly Good Family
By: Lionel Shriver
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand… read more
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7. Maeve Fly
By: C.J. Leede
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more
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- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
8. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
9. Mister Magic
By: Kiersten White
3.59
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- thriller
- audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."-Kiersten White, Mister Magic
"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."-Kiersten White, Mister Magic
"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"-Kiersten White, Mister Magic
10. Black Sheep
By: Rachel Harrison
3.60
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep
"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep
11. 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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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
12. The Need
By: Helen Phillips
3.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries t… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened / melted, maddened / melted, maddened / melted."-Helen Phillips, The Need
"She wondered if other mothers experienced it, this permanent state of mild panic, and worried that perhaps they didn't, that perhaps there was something wrong with her."-Helen Phillips, The Need
"Brilliant, Molly thought, the cheese samples would absorb the kids while she finished the last bit of shopping for the party - the juice boxes, the rainbow sprinkles, the streamers, the other expense…"-Helen Phillips, The Need
13. 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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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
14. A Good House for Children
By: Kate Collins
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
15. The Night Always Comes
By: Willy Vlautin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
16. Just Like Home
By: Sarah Gailey
3.35
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
17. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
18. Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Bright Lands
By: John Fram
3.41
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback… read more
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- mystery thriller
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
20. The Upstairs House
By: Julia Fine
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening—in which a postpartu… read more
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- mystery thriller
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song."-Julia Fine, The Upstairs House
21. Full Immersion
By: Gemma Amor
3.77
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her d… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
22. Reproduction
By: Louisa Hall
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
23. The Bone Garden
By: Heather Kassner
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Remember, my dear, you do not really and truly exist.” Made of dust and bone and imagination, I… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- fantasy
- audiobook
24. The Unmothers
By: Leslie J. Anderson
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
25. Wild Failure: Stories
By: Zoe Whittall
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In these raucous and poignant short stories, bestselling novelist Zoe Whittall contends with the me… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
26. Tilt
By: Emma Pattee
4.57
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set over the course of one day, a heart-racing debut about a woman facing the unimaginable, determi… read more
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- fiction
27. Dearest
By: Jacquie Walters
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
28. The Glass Girl
By: Kathleen Glasgow
4.39
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
29. There's Nothing Wrong with Her
By: Kate Weinberg
3.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A crackling, tender, and perfectly off-kilter novel about love, madness, illness, and recovery.Vita… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Home of the Floating Lily
By: Silmy Abdullah
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Caught between cultures, immigrant women from a Bangladeshi neighbourhood in Scarborough struggle t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
31. Screams from the Void
By: Anne Tibbets
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For two years in deep space, the freighter Demeter and a small crew have collected botanical life f… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- horror
