Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
By: Tania De Rozario
4.18
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The…
Want to Read $ 9.99"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
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1. The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
By: Kirsty Logan
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men… read more
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2. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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3. 血の轍 17 [Chi no Wadachi 17]
By: Shuzo Oshimi
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
母子の壮絶なる「轍」の物語、完結。 転落事故の影響で生きる気力を失ったママを、自宅に連れ帰った静一。ママはもはや静一が誰かを認識できず、日に日に衰弱していく。そんな”解(ほど)けていく”ママを、静… read more
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4. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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- horror
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5. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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6. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
By: Tessa Hulls
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more
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- adult
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7. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
8. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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9. You Get What You Pay For: Essays
By: Morgan Parker
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more
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10. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir
By: Maurice Vellekoop
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more
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11. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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12. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
By: Elizabeth Flock
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few… read more
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"I saw how their violent actions had both helped and harmed them, and others around them... They all found agency, a voice, and an identity beyond how the men in their towns saw them. But they got no …"-Elizabeth Flock, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
13. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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14. The Eyes Are the Best Part
By: Monika Kim
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more
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15. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
16. Big Mall
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3.84
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A phenomenology of the If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poison… read more
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17. Women! In! Peril!
By: Jessie Ren Marshall
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this brash and unputdownable collection, award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall invites us… read more
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18. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
By: Caroline Crampton
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definit… read more
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"If I have to inhabit a fragile meat vessel that could disintegrate at any moment, at least don't make me think about it all the time."-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
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"Illness is a story we tell about ourselves. The narrative is the connective tissue that joins together the symptoms and perceptions and makes sense of them. It's how impenetrable concepts like death …"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
19. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
By: Tania De Rozario
4.18
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- horror
- asian literature
- adult
- queer
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
20. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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21. Please Stop Trying to Leave Me
By: Alana Saab
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arr… read more
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"Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender."-Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me
