Asylum Road
By: Olivia Sudjic
3.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The taut, knife-sharp, compulsive second novel by the critically-acclaimed author Olivia Sudjic, fo…
Want to Read"Las historias que nos contamos a nosotros mismos, añadió, en un tono monocorde, como si leyera un guion, son lo que nos hacen ser quien somos. Tienden a convertirse en profecías autocumplidas."-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
"Las historias que nos contamos a nosotros mismos, añadió, en un tono monocorde, como si leyera un guion, son lo que nos hacen ser quien somos. Tienden a convertirse en profecías autocumplidas."-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
"Recuerdo mi obcecación con el felices para siempre. Ahora me hace gracia pensar que me lo planteaba como un lugar físico al final de un largo camino. Un lugar donde deshacer el equipaje, tumbarme y no tener que moverme más, y donde el futuro sería el final."-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
"Recuerdo mi obcecación con el felices para siempre. Ahora me hace gracia pensar que me lo planteaba como un lugar físico al final de un largo camino. Un lugar donde deshacer el equipaje, tumbarme y no tener que moverme más, y donde el futuro sería el final."-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
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1. The End of the Story
By: Lydia Davis
3.63
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair―such… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is …"-Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
"As long as everything stayed the same, it seemed possible for him to come back. As long as everything was the way he had left it, his place was open for him. But if things changed beyond a certain po…"-Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
"Today I am feeling that chronological order is not a good thing, even if it is easier, and that I should break it up. Is it that when these events are in chronological order they are not propelled fo…"-Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
"I said I would write one letter every day after the mail came. But I did not do that for long. I did not answer most of the letters that came to me. I would plan to walk south in the early part of th…"-Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
2. Beautiful Animals
By: Lawrence Osborne
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a s… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- novels
3. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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
5. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
6. 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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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
"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
7. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
8. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
9. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
10. 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
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"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
11. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
12. 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
- 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
13. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
14. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
15. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"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
16. Crudo
By: Olivia Laing
3.19
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acc… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"-Olivia Laing, Crudo
17. Paul
By: Daisy Lafarge
3.49
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tend… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
18. Asylum Road
By: Olivia Sudjic
3.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The taut, knife-sharp, compulsive second novel by the critically-acclaimed author Olivia Sudjic, fo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- novels
- adult
"Las historias que nos contamos a nosotros mismos, añadió, en un tono monocorde, como si leyera un guion, son lo que nos hacen ser quien somos. Tienden a convertirse en profecías autocumplidas."-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
"Recuerdo mi obcecación con el felices para siempre. Ahora me hace gracia pensar que me lo planteaba como un lugar físico al final de un largo camino. Un lugar donde deshacer el equipaje, tumbarme y n…"-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
19. Estaré sola y sin fiesta
By: Sara Barquinero
3.32
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
¿Quién es Yna? ¿Por qué su diario íntimo, crónica de su enamoramiento de Alejandro en 1990, ha apar… read more
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- fiction
"Pero al final, fijarte en lo que se ha ido y no tienes, en quién querrías ser, en qué hiciste mal, en qué querrías sentir exactamente, o en lo que querrías tener hace que no te des cuenta de lo que t…"-Sara Barquinero, Estaré sola y sin fiesta
"En realidad, nunca nadie está solo. Incluso cuando alguien se va, nos acompaña -carraspea-. Nada desaparece y hay que aceptar eso. El pasado no desaparece, solo hay que vivir con ello y ver con qué c…"-Sara Barquinero, Estaré sola y sin fiesta
"…Yna no tiene por qué estar muerta. Eso hace que no pueda averiguar nada sobre ella ahora, solo fantasear, jugar a dibujarle pasados y posibilidades incomprobables que no pueden tranquilizarla, que l…"-Sara Barquinero, Estaré sola y sin fiesta
20. White on White
By: Aysegül Savas
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. A student mov… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"It wasn't often, she went on, that we could present ourselves to others, like a self-portrait. More often, we made portraits of the people around us, guessing at their features from occasional glimps…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescen…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"The cousin was both real and fictional to her - an embodiment of all that Agnes wanted to be, fashioned from the particular details of her cousins tangible self. "We form ourselves through our double…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Perhaps she was just old-fashioned, Agnes said, but it seemed to her that severe introspection was a sure way to get lost in the smallest issues, to reduce one's life to a list of grievances. For her…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
21. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
