Universal Love
By: Alexander Weinstein
4.00
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the te…
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1. Mapping the Interior
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.79
Format: 131 pages, ebook
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping t… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too."-Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
2. The Ones That Got Away
By: Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that go… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
3. Otherworld (Otherworld, #1)
By: Jason Segel , Kirsten Miller
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The company says Otherworld is amazing--like nothing you've ever seen before. They say it's addicti… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
4. Please Ignore Vera Dietz
By: A.S. King
3.87
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"No one living understands dying."-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
"I was also built from delusional optimism and folly."-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
"Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?"-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
"I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for."-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
5. Smack
By: Melvin Burgess
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two teens fall in love with each other and heroin. Tar has reasons for running away from home that … read more
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6. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
7. Out There
By: Kate Folk
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
8. The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the "… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
9. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
10. Do You Remember Being Born?
By: Sean Michaels
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
11. The Parade
By: Dave Eggers
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far fro… read more
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- dystopia
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"No man should have to endure another man quoting poetry."-Dave Eggers, The Parade
12. Bridge
By: Lauren Beukes
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
13. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)
By: L.M. Sagas
3.92
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
15. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
By: Margo Jefferson
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more
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- audiobook
16. Walking Practice
By: Dolki Min
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
17. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
By: Matthieu Simard
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
18. The Prettiest Star
By: Carter Sickels
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his fami… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. The Lonesome Bodybuilder
By: Yukiko Motoya
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique--which her workaholic hu… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"You must think you're really something. Calling yourself a phenomenon."-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
"Life’s not worth living if you’re not tending to the whims and demands of a high-maintenance lover!"-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
"When I woke up and looked in the mirror, I saw that my face had finally begun to forget who I was. I guessed my features had just been caught off guard that day. When I peered closer, they rushed to …"-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
20. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
By: Molly McGhee
3.50
Format: 304 pages, None
Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
21. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
By: Julian K. Jarboe
3.93
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
22. In the House in the Dark of the Woods
By: Laird Hunt
3.33
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this ingenious h… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
23. Mother Howl
By: Craig Clevenger
3.75
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
Compelling literary crime that follows the son of a serial murderer who changes his identity in a b… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
24. With Regrets
By: Lee Kelly
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With Regrets , from author Lee Kelly, is equal parts Big Little Lies and Bird Box , a suburban dram… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- audiobook
25. Users
By: Colin Winnette
2.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is … read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
26. The Resisters
By: Gish Jen
3.59
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"...even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call…"-Gish Jen, The Resisters
27. Universal Love
By: Alexander Weinstein
4.00
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the te… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- anthologies
- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
28. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
29. Hawking
By: Jim Ottaviani
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following their New York Times- bestselling graphic novel Feynman , Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick… read more
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30. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more
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- audiobook
31. Instinct
By: Jason M. Hough
3.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Twin Peaks meets Blake Crouch as an overwhelmed police officer struggles to save her small, isolate… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
