Tides
By: Sara Freeman
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside tow…
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1. Vertigo: A Novella
By: Amanda Lohrey , Lorraine Biggs
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Luke and Anna decide on a sea-change. They leave the city, fleeing a past and a future that fill th… read more
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- literature
- fiction
2. The Seas
By: Samantha Hunt
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
The narrator of The Seaslives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chamb… read more
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3. 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
4. Very Cold People
By: Sarah Manguso
3.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
5. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
6. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
7. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
8. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
9. 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
10. Moon Road
By: Sarah Leipciger
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
11. Tides
By: Sara Freeman
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside tow… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- literature
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
12. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
13. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
14. 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
- audiobook
"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
15. Le ciel en sa fureur
By: Adeline Fleury
3.78
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Julia, jeune vétérinaire et ancienne citadine reconvertie, et son amie Stéphane n’en croient pas le… read more
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16. Prairie Edge
By: Conor Kerr
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
17. Pleine et douce (French Edition)
By: Camille Froidevaux-Metterie
3.60
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Une musique libre et joyeuse s’élève des pages de ce premier roman : celle d’un chœur de femmes sal… read more
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- fiction
18. 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
- audiobook
19. Rare Singles
By: Benjamin Myers
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
21. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel
By: Jane Urquhart
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more
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- fiction
- canada
