How Strange a Season
By: Megan Mayhew Bergman
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s…
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1. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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2. Fresh Complaint
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides Jeff… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
4. Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
By: Leigh Newman
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Dail… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- historical
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
5. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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- womens
6. 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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- short stories
- fiction
7. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- environment
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
8. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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- feminism
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
9. The Best American Short Stories 2023
By: Min Jin Lee
3.77
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
10. The Faces
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.92
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces
11. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
12. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
13. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
14. Pig Years
By: Ellyn Gaydos
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This captivating memoir is a "startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvest… read more
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- environment
- contemporary
15. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
16. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more
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- feminism
- environment
17. Emergency
By: Kathleen Alcott
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A woman finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of an art … read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
18. What We Fed to the Manticore
By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Revival Season
By: Monica West
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about … read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. Fruiting Bodies: Stories
By: Kathryn Harlan
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
21. End of the World House
By: Adrienne Celt
3.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, worki… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You never know why not, before it happens. That’s what Bertie realized. Time passes. Slow, then fast. Bit by bit, and then it’s gone."-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"Both of them dated a lot, though unsuccessfully, choosing the solace of easy sex over the ontological work of rearranging their lives for relationships."-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"Why had she ever wanted to come here? To see art. To see someone else’s inspiration, but in its worst, its least natural form. The point being not that it was beautiful, but that it was chosen."-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
"She and Kate had wanted to see the things everyone else saw, too, but with their own eyes. That was how art, how anything, became immortal. Becoming a still point in the universe, around which endles…"-Adrienne Celt, End of the World House
22. You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
By: Maggie Shipstead
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times best-selling author Maggie Shipstead, an irresistible collection of short stori… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
23. The Thirty Names of Night
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
4.04
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
24. Ghost Season
By: Fatin Abbas
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
25. The Book of Mother
By: Violaine Huisman
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet … read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The truth of a life is the fiction that sustains it."-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother
"Colava a picco, senza più legami all'infuori delle due figlie impotenti che la guardavano andare a fondo insieme ai sacchi della spazzatura pieni di vestiti e di scarpe, che si inabissavano come la s…"-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother
"La mamma non conosceva la discesa morbida, la pista verde per lei non esisteva, se andava bene era rossa incendio, se andava male nero estintore. Allora non restava che vedere se si poteva andare più…"-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother
26. The Secret Talker
By: Geling Yan
3.08
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Combining the dark twists of The Silent Patient with the unsettling beauty of The Vegetarian, a ten… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
27. How Strange a Season
By: Megan Mayhew Bergman
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- historical
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- environment
28. Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories
By: Sindya Bhanoo
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This stunning debut from O. Henry Prize winner Sindya Bhanoo offers intimate stories of South India… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Eleutheria
By: Allegra Hyde
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A story of idealism, activism, and systemic corruption, centered on a naïve young woman’s quest for… read more
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- environment
- fiction
30. Destination Wedding
By: Diksha Basu
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally, she wonders if a we… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
31. The History of Sound: Stories
By: Ben Shattuck
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
