Landscapes
By: Christine Lai
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught …
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1. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
2. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
4. 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
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
5. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
7. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
8. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
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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- canada
10. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
11. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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- art
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
13. 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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- art
- 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
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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- art
- contemporary
15. Ædnan
By: Linnea Axelsson
4.23
Format: 762 pages, Hardcover
Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
16. 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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- art
17. Landscapes
By: Christine Lai
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more
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- art
- literary fiction
- canada
- british literature
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- climate change fiction
- nature
18. OKPsyche
By: Anya Johanna DeNiro
3.87
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An unnamed trans woman is looking for a sense of belonging, a better relationship with her son, and… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Toward Eternity
By: Anton Hur
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- literary fiction
- fiction
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
