The Material
By: Camille Bordas
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com…
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1. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
2. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- adult
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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
3. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
4. Practice
By: Rosalind Brown
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
5. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
6. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
7. The Road to the Country
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country
8. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"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
10. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
11. The Material
By: Camille Bordas
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
12. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
13. Godwin
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Rejection: Fiction
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction
15. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
17. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
18. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
19. Peggy
By: Rebecca Godfrey
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
20. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
