The Most Precious Substance on Earth
By: Shashi Bhat
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about …
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- audiobook
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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult fiction
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
3. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
4. Cult Classic
By: Sloane Crosley
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully cra… read more
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- audiobook
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"You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French."-Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic
5. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- audiobook
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6. youthjuice
By: E.K. Sathue
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more
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- audiobook
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7. Finding Edward
By: Sheila Murray
4.02
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Cyril Rowntree, a mixed race Jamaican, migrates to Canada after his mother and surrogate grandfathe… read more
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- adult fiction
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- canada
8. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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- adult fiction
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- audiobook
9. Kittentits
By: Holly Wilson
3.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more
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- coming of age
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- audiobook
10. Probably Ruby
By: Lisa Bird-Wilson
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable d… read more
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11. We Meant Well
By: Erum Shazia Hasan
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more
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12. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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13. Cinema Love
By: Jiaming Tang
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more
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- literary fiction
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14. Vagablonde
By: Anna Dorn
3.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue
By: Christine Higdon
4.09
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic… read more
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16. The Most Precious Substance on Earth
By: Shashi Bhat
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
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- coming of age
- young adult
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Mouth: Stories
By: Puloma Ghosh
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
BESTIARY MEETS THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED IN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL S… read more
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18. What Comes Echoing Back
By: Leo McKay Jr.
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The worst moment of Sam’s life was captured on video and shared across the Internet for all to gawk… read more
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19. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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20. Bad Land
By: Corinna Chong
3.94
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past Re… read more
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21. Avalanche
By: Jessica Westhead
4.26
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Featured on 49th Shelf's Most 2023 Fall Fiction Preview "Things used to be easier, but even in tho… read more
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