Topics of Conversation
By: Miranda Popkey
2.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voic…
Want to Read $ 12.99"It was his desperation I despised."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"Having a baby, in any case, is never ethical."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"I know how this sounds; I mean, now I know how it sounds."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"Good intentions, sure, but when have they ever been enough."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
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1. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
2. Last Things
By: Jenny Offill
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work… read more
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3. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- audiobook
"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
4. 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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- literary fiction
- feminism
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- contemporary
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- adult
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"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
5. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
6. No todo el mundo
By: Marta Jiménez Serrano
4.15
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Una visión caleidoscópica del amor que nace y muere en la gran ciudad Marcelo y Eloísa no lo sab… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
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"No hay nada peor que pasar de la intimidad al protocolo."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo
"Siempre está bien tener un vicio, para tener la ilusión de poder dejarlo."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo
"Cabe señalar que para encontarse no solo hay que verse: hay que verse a la vez."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo
"De repente les gustas más por acariciar un gato. Ser hombre a veces es muy sencillo."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo
7. Los nombres propios
By: Marta Jiménez Serrano
4.32
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
¿Quién es Belaundia Fu? Es la mejor amiga de Marta a los siete años: la amiga invisible que, en eso… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
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"El amor. Estar en un mismo espacio haciendo cosas distintas."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios
"El deseo más absurdo, más estéril: querer que el otro quiera."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios
"Tú sabes que en cierto modo tienen razón. Lo sabes. Tú quieres volver al agua y a las risas, quieres desenfadarte pero no sabes cómo. Estás sola."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios
"Has aprendido que hay que dejarse cuidar, que con una costilla rota y la visión nublada no hay nada más inteligente que ponerse en manos del equipo."-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios
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
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
- 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
9. Daddy
By: Emma Cline
3.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The stories in Emma Cline’s stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
10. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
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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12. Stones: Poems
By: Kevin Young
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one o… read more
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13. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
14. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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- womens
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15. Exciting Times
By: Naoise Dolan
3.23
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more
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"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
16. Casi nada que ponerte
By: Lucía Lijtmaer
3.56
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
La historia de cómo se construye una identidad formada por un mosaico de infinitos fragmentos de cu… read more
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17. La trilogía de París
By: Colombe Schneck
3.86
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
LA REVELACIÓN LITERARIA LLEGA DE FRANCIA La premiada Colombe Schneck «retrata la búsqueda de una… read more
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- literary fiction
18. Topics of Conversation
By: Miranda Popkey
2.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voic… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
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- adult
- audiobook
"It was his desperation I despised."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"Having a baby, in any case, is never ethical."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"I know how this sounds; I mean, now I know how it sounds."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
"Good intentions, sure, but when have they ever been enough."-Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
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
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20. Piso compartido
By: Ana Flecha Marco
4.15
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Piso compartido es una novela de interior. Un relato costumbrista donde magia, memoria y cotidianid… read more
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21. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
By: Charlotte Shane
3.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more
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