Aug 9 - Fog
By: Kathryn Scanlan
3.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, …
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1. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
2. 300 Arguments: Essays
By: Sarah Manguso
3.62
Format: 192 pages,
A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists There will co… read more
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3. Vertigo
By: Joanna Walsh
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Walsh's penetrating short story collection evokes the titular feeling of dizziness. "I sense no anc… read more
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4. Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extr… read more
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5. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
By: Sigrid Nunez
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure kno… read more
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6. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- literature
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
7. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
8. 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
- fiction
- womens
- novels
- adult
"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
9. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
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- novels
- adult
10. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
11. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- poetry
12. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- adult
13. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine
By: Arlo Parks
3.89
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning deb… read more
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14. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
By: Danielle Dutton
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more
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- short stories
15. Dance Move
By: Wendy Erskine
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Praise for Sweet Home: ‘An exceptional ear for dialogue, an impeccable semantic rhythm and an un… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
16. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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- short stories
17. Aug 9 - Fog
By: Kathryn Scanlan
3.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, … read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- womens
- novels
- adult
18. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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- womens
19. 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
- adult
- fiction
- novels
"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
20. Hoarders
By: Kate Durbin
4.28
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021 An Electric Literature Best Poet… read more
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- poetry
21. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- adult
- fiction
