The Bloater
By: Rosemary Tonks
3.47
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Min, married, but like a reckless little schoolgirl still unbroken, is being wooed by 'the Bloater'…
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1. A Severed Head
By: Iris Murdoch
3.74
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- womens
"I could not see other human beings at present."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
2. The Country of the Pointed Firs
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a small, coastal town in Maine, this enduring sequence of intimate stories has assumed its r… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
3. Veronica
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.59
Format: None pages,
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
5. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
6. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
7. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
8. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
9. Great Granny Webster
By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
10. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
11. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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12. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
By: Anne Carson
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Oh my darlings, they tell you you’re born with a precious pearl. Truth is, it’s a disaster to be a girl."-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
"Aristotle thought earthquakes were caused by winds trapped in subterranean caves. We’re more scientific now, we know it’s just five guys fracking the fuck out of the world while it’s still legal."-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
"In ancient Greek you use the verb ἁρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the v…"-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
14. 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
15. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
16. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
19. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
20. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
23. The Bloater
By: Rosemary Tonks
3.47
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Min, married, but like a reckless little schoolgirl still unbroken, is being wooed by 'the Bloater'… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
24. The Seaplane on Final Approach
By: Rebecca Rukeyser
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly hu… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
"My ferocity was leveled at becoming."-Rebecca Rukeyser, The Seaplane on Final Approach
25. Sheep's Clothing
By: Celia Dale
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Grace meets Janice in Holloway Prison. Once both women are released, Janice quickly becomes accompl… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"Janice watched him go with astonishing regret"-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
"But while pleased to surrender to Grace's authority, Janice enjoyed resenting it."-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
26. Mr. Right Is Dead
By: Rona Jeffe
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Often regarded as her finest and most literary work, "Mr. Right Is Dead" is Rona Jaffe's collection… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- contemporary
27. The Material
By: Camille Bordas
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
28. Awayland
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood w… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness."-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland
"What are you doing?" the mother asked. "I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself."-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland
29. How It Works Out
By: Myriam Lacroix
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Reichskanzlerplatz
By: Nora Bossong
3.63
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Nora Bossong zeichnet in ihrem neuen Roman das intensive Porträt der Frau, die Magda Goebbels wurde… read more
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