Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
By: Nuar Alsadir
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal's 12 Best N…
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
4. The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.77
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating n… read more
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5. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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6. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
7. Essayism
By: Brian Dillon
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
The essay is a venerable form that may well be the genre of the future. It has its origins in a mod… read more
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8. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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9. Antigonick
By: Sophocles , Anne Carson , Bianca Stone
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated new translation of Sophokles' Antigone. With text blocks hand-inked on the page by A… read more
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10. 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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- nonfiction
- essays
"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
11. 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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- womens
- nonfiction
- psychology
"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
12. 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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- humor
"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
13. Diego Garcia
By: Natasha Soobramanien
3.89
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s … read more
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14. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- nonfiction
15. 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
- essays
16. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
17. 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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"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
18. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
By: Rebecca May Johnson
3.75
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
19. Females
By: Andrea Long Chu
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."-Andrea Long Chu, Females
"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"-Andrea Long Chu, Females
20. Raving
By: McKenzie Wark
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
21. Owlish
By: Dorothy Tse
3.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporar… read more
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22. The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more
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"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
23. Sterling Karat Gold
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and … read more
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24. Emergency
By: Daisy Hildyard
3.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone… read more
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25. Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
By: Nuar Alsadir
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal's 12 Best N… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- humor
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- science
26. Thrust
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
3.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins--vulnerable h… read more
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"Memory is proof that imagination is a real place."-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust
"Women have been outsmarting their counter-genders since the dawn of time. I do wonder, though, when women will tire of their part in the story and revolt. I imagine the bloodbath."-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust
"Miles of information... so that questions might be answered, so that judgements might be made, so that stories would not be lost, so that memory might outlive slaughter. So that crimes against humani…"-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust
27. Suppose a Sentence
By: Brian Dillon
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
28. Quantum Listening
By: Pauline Oliveros
3.85
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
What is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagin… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
29. Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
By: Jackie Wang
4.39
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
30. God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, unsparing debut novel about black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intima… read more
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31. The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
How do I keep doing this―making art? Stacey D’Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had publ… read more
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- essays
