The Visitors
By: Jessi Jezewska Stevens
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
C can’t pay her debts. Once a renowned textile artist, her husband has left her sole proprietor of …
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1. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
2. City of Illusions
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
1.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and n… read more
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3. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
4. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
5. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- literary fiction
- queer
- fiction
- contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
6. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Geneva
By: Richard Armitage
3.64
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
8. 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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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
10. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
11. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
12. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
13. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
14. The Body Scout
By: Lincoln Michel
3.63
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister lo… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
"...People had been predicting the death of the city for years. Would that finally drive all the people out of this sinking island? I imagined office buildings filled with screeches instead of confere…"-Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout
15. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
16. Lublin
By: Manya Wilkinson
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Elya is the lad with the vision, and Elya has the map. Ziv and Kiva aren’t so sure. The water may r… read more
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- fiction
17. 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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- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- fiction
"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
18. The Visitors
By: Jessi Jezewska Stevens
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
C can’t pay her debts. Once a renowned textile artist, her husband has left her sole proprietor of … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- queer
19. Bad Eminence
By: James Greer
3.22
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealt… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Mice 1961
By: Stacey Levine
3.70
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Stacey Levine's new novel recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sister… read more
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21. Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing
By: Robin McLean
3.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of R… read more
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"Nothing was better for forgetting than making plans."-Robin McLean, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing
