Dear Edna Sloane
By: Amy Shearn
3.96
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic a…
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1. Anagrams
By: Lorrie Moore
3.92
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Benna Carpenter is an art history professor who wears glass jewelry, sings in local nightclubs, cha… read more
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"Life is sad. Here is someone."-Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
"No, we’re not getting married,"-Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
"I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. "-Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
"They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die."-Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
2. Veronica
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.59
Format: None pages,
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more
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3. Alternate Endings
By: Ali Rosen
3.79
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt romance abo… read more
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4. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
5. 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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6. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
9. Women and Children First
By: Alina Grabowski
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more
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10. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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11. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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12. King Nyx
By: Kirsten Bakis
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more
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13. The Love Remedy (The Damsels of Discovery, #1)
By: Elizabeth Everett
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When a Victorian apothecary hires a stoic private investigator to protect her business, they learn … read more
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14. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
15. The Garden
By: Clare Beams
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more
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16. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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17. Welcome Home, Caroline Kline
By: Courtney Preiss
3.36
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A debut novel sparkling with wit and insight about a young woman whose reluctant return to her Jers… read more
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18. Days of Wonder
By: Caroline Leavitt
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt returns with a tantalizing, courageous story abo… read more
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19. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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20. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
21. The Skunks
By: Fiona Warnick
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more
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22. All This & More
By: Peng Shepherd
3.47
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more
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23. Girlfriends
By: Emily Zhou
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more
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24. 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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"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
25. Dear Edna Sloane
By: Amy Shearn
3.96
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic a… read more
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26. How the Light Gets In
By: Joyce Maynard
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more
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27. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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28. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
By: Sarah Gerard
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more
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29. The Vixen Amber Halloway
By: Carol LaHines
3.66
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ophelia, a professor of Dante, is stricken when she discovers that her husband Andy has been cheati… read more
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30. 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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31. Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others
By: Percival Everett
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to differen… read more
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