Blood Red
By: Gabriela Ponce Padilla
3.59
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce Padilla, B…
Want to Read $ 9.49"Let the living fly. The machine must fall. The machine in the air must fail at some point, emptiness always prevails."-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
"We felt as if we were just one body—bone, blood, flesh—that momentarily splits apart to come back together, pulled by the irremediable need for touch."-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
"I try to understand, but everything I do is a surprise even to me, as if I were an unknowable amalgam full of errors, an open wound closing up and splitting open, always wavering between criticism and self-pity."-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
"I hated and loved understanding this is what happens, love gave way to hatred, forging love always meant forging hatred, fucking hell, but it isn’t so simple to differentiate the two in this amalgam, you get lost."-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
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1. Nefando
By: Mónica Ojeda
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nefando, Viaje a las entranas de una habitacion, fue un videojuego en linea poco conocido y pronto … read more
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- novels
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
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- contemporary
3. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
4. Pelea de gallos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.15
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –o destruye– a la… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
5. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf
By: Malika Moustadraf
3.83
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrat… read more
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- fiction
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6. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
7. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
8. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- fiction
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9. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
10. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
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- contemporary
11. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- 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
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"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. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
14. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
15. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
16. Swanna in Love
By: Jennifer Belle
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
17. This World Does Not Belong to Us
By: Natalia García Freire
3.73
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A journey to the bowels of the earth After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Detrás del bosque de Polylepis, muere el sol. Está alto, tan alto que sus árboles parecieran haber tenido que inclinarse para no tocar las nubes. Los Polylepis son árboles de páramo. Sus troncos se d…"-Natalia García Freire, This World Does Not Belong to Us
18. 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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- contemporary
"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
19. Blood Red
By: Gabriela Ponce Padilla
3.59
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce Padilla, B… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- mental health
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- womens
- novels
"Let the living fly. The machine must fall. The machine in the air must fail at some point, emptiness always prevails."-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
"We felt as if we were just one body—bone, blood, flesh—that momentarily splits apart to come back together, pulled by the irremediable need for touch."-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
"I try to understand, but everything I do is a surprise even to me, as if I were an unknowable amalgam full of errors, an open wound closing up and splitting open, always wavering between criticism an…"-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
"I hated and loved understanding this is what happens, love gave way to hatred, forging love always meant forging hatred, fucking hell, but it isn’t so simple to differentiate the two in this amalgam,…"-Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red
20. Slash and Burn
By: Claudia Hernández
3.81
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees he… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- 21st century
- novels
21. Lo que fue el futuro
By: Daniela Alcívar Bellolio
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lo que fue el futuro es el relato de una desintegración, la crónica de una crisis devastadora que a… read more
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