All Who Live On Islands
By: Rose Lu
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate an…
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1. Sour Heart
By: Jenny Zhang
3.69
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and s… read more
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- asian literature
- contemporary
"Another scar that faded enough to be just another mark we carried."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with no purpose except to be beautiful or interesting."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"[…] until we were living hour to hour, minute to minute, and even then, I still believed in my father, who insisted there had to be something—anything—to look forward to."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your aunt" and it would take a longtime for our children to even understand that we were siblings first."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
2. Priestdaddy: A Memoir
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. The Empathy Exams: Essays
By: Leslie Jamison
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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- contemporary
6. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
7. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- essays
8. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
9. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- contemporary
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
10. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
11. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
12. Straight Up
By: Ruby Tui
4.38
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"-Ruby Tui, Straight Up
13. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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- womens
- contemporary
14. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
15. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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- contemporary
16. Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
17. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
18. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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- contemporary
"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
19. The Mirror Book
By: Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writ… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
20. How to Read Now
By: Elaine Castillo
4.03
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
21. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
22. Poukahangatus: Poems
By: Tayi Tibble
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
23. Nothing to See
By: Pip Adam
3.85
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their … read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
24. When I Open the Shop
By: romesh dissanayake
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more
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- contemporary
25. You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here
By: Frances Macken
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'This atmospheric debut looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but it’s cleverer, darker, mo… read more
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- contemporary
26. All Who Live On Islands
By: Rose Lu
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- female authors
- lgbt
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- asian literature
- womens
27. Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent
By: Alie Benge
4.46
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
28. Imagining Decolonisation
By: Biana Elkington
4.59
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and oft… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
29. Kitten
By: Olive Nuttall
4.24
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous b… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
30. Can You Tolerate This?
By: Ashleigh Young
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling—and already prizewinning—collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappoin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
31. Ash
By: Louise Wallace
4.35
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more
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