The Letters of Shirley Jackson
By: Shirley Jackson
4.55
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "…
Want to Read $ 4.99"what a shame that dreams are not the stuff that stories are made on."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
"what a shame that dreams are not the stuff that stories are made on."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
"The road to hell is very likely paved with my notes for stories and books and articles."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
"The road to hell is very likely paved with my notes for stories and books and articles."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. Shirley
By: Susan Scarf Merrell , Susan Merrell
3.43
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Two imposing literary figures are at the center of this captivating novel: the celebrated Shirley J… read more
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- books about books
- horror
"I didn't know I was lonely. I didn't know there was another way to be."-Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley
"We slip, we careen through time. We slide, we lurch back to our beginnings."-Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley
"Because while we pretend we have choice about who we love, it isn't actually true."-Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley
"Pain has an element of blank; it cannot recollect when it began, or if there was a time when it was not."-Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley
3. Communion: A True Story
By: Whitley Strieber
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with hi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- horror
"Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a la…"-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story
"Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reali…"-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story
4. Thirteen Ways of Looking
By: Colum McCann
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning novel Let the Great World Spinand TransAtlanticcomes an eponym… read more
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5. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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- classics
6. Priestdaddy: A Memoir
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
7. So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature In the stillness… read more
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9. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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10. The Expendable Man
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more
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11. Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (Mrs. Pollifax, #5)
By: Dorothy Gilman
4.17
Format: 223 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Now the incredible Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on a safari to smoke out a very clever international… read more
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12. The Owl Service
By: Alan Garner
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a s… read more
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13. The Moonspinners
By: Mary Stewart
3.06
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embass… read more
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14. The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Sequel to the author's original Tarzan novel. read more
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15. Vampires in the Lemon Grove
By: Karen Russell
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--… read more
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16. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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17. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
18. 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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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
19. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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- horror
20. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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- horror
21. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
By: Paulina Bren
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
22. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
By: Sadie Hartmann
4.43
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- essays
- horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
23. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
By: Anne Boyd Rioux
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“[An] affectionate and perceptive tribute.”―Wendy Smith, Boston Globe In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy , Anne … read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- biography
- books about books
"And if boys enjoy books about aliens, which they certainly do, why not also books about girls?"-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
"As girls gravitate to more contemporary fare and away from Little Women , they are missing a lot. Today’s successors to Little Women seem to have overlooked two of the most important themes of Alcott…"-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
24. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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25. Walking with Ghosts
By: Gabriel Byrne
4.11
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of ima… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"So the days passed into weeks and the weeks into months, and gradually she too faded until many years later when I came across a photograph of us together on a hillside in Greece, our only holiday. A…"-Gabriel Byrne, Walking with Ghosts
26. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
By: Ruth Franklin
4.01
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such c… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
- horror
- books about books
"Constance and Merricat are indeed “two halves of the same person,"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"Brown, they would later write, had taught them that the goal of reading and criticizing was "to know and understand, not to like or dislike, and the aim of writing was to get down what you wanted to …"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"Every description is calculated for what it reveals, both about the character to whom it refers and the person whose attitude it represents ... As always in these descriptions, she has a knack for th…"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"If one is bewildered and unhappy, why not show it, and why will not people explain and comfort? But instead—this pretense at calm satisfaction, where underneath there is all the seething restless des…"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
27. Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
By: Yunte Huang
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
One of the Atlantic 's "Books to Get Lost in This Summer" Best Books of August 2023: InsideHook, W… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
28. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
By: Linda Kay Klein
4.17
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangeli… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The purity message nestles neatly into the larger “us"-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"Surviving gives you a very unique set of skills. It costs a lot. But it also makes you powerful."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"[T]he church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn't shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
29. The Letters of Shirley Jackson
By: Shirley Jackson
4.55
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "… read more
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- classics
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- horror
- writing
- books about books
"what a shame that dreams are not the stuff that stories are made on."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
"The road to hell is very likely paved with my notes for stories and books and articles."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
"what a past. i swear i'd forgotten most of it until these people started telling me about it."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
30. Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House
By: Jill E. Anderson
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narrativ… read more
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31. Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences
By: Melanie R. Anderson
3.78
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tende… read more
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- nonfiction
