The Blurry Years
By: Eleanor Kriseman
4.00
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voic…
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1. Geek Love
By: Katherine Dunn
3.95
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"You must have wished a million times to be normal."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
2. A Mouthful of Air
By: Amy Koppelman
3.00
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
About the Book The riveting story of a young Manhattan mother's struggle with postpartum depression… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Gloaming
By: Melanie Finn
3.95
Format: 315 pages,
Pilgrim's husband left her for another woman, stranding her in a Swiss town where she is involved i… read more
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4. The Seas
By: Samantha Hunt
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
The narrator of The Seaslives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chamb… read more
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5. The Only Ones
By: Carola Dibbell
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering … read more
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6. 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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- contemporary
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
7. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
8. 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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- coming of age
- 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
9. The Beast You Are: Stories
By: Paul Tremblay
3.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club , A He… read more
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- fiction
10. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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- coming of age
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
11. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
12. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
By: Katya Apekina
4.08
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump … read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up …"-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
13. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
14. The Book of X
By: Sarah Rose Etter
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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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- coming of age
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Temporary
By: Hilary Leichter
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre pl… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Living is also a state of mourning."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"Life is a stranger in a crowd whose intentions are unclear and, come to think of it, so is death."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
17. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
18. The Hare
By: Melanie Finn
3.63
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The Hare is an affecting portrait of Rosie Monroe, of her resilience and personal transformation un… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. The Blurry Years
By: Eleanor Kriseman
4.00
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voic… read more
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- adult fiction
- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
20. Hysteria
By: Jessica Gross
3.03
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual ben… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
