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…
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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
2. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
- audiobook
3. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
4. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
5. 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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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"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
6. My First Book
By: Honor Levy
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more
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- essays
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."-Honor Levy, My First Book
7. 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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- art
- womens
- audiobook
"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
8. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
9. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
- audiobook
10. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
11. No Judgment: Essays
By: Lauren Oyler
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays
12. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
13. 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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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
14. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- audiobook
15. 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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- audiobook
- art
- biography
- unfinished
- lgbt
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- queer
16. 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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- audiobook
17. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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18. 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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- lgbt
- queer
19. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- audiobook
20. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
21. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
