Monster Portraits
By: Sofia Samatar
4.06
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the mon…
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1. A Bestiary
By: Lily Hoang
4.27
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
* Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum * “Rarely have … read more
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- poetry
- short stories
- essays
"It is not a desire to play games: it is an urge, a yearning, an addiction."-Lily Hoang, A Bestiary
"When I was young, my mother would cuddle me closely when I was sick. She would say, "Shhh, shhh," and tell me that she wanted me to give her all of my sickness, so that she would be sick and I wouldn…"-Lily Hoang, A Bestiary
2. The Hounds of No
By: Lara Glenum
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Lara Glenum was raised in the gothic South, studied at the University of Chicago and the Un… read more
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- poetry
3. The Two Kinds of Decay
By: Sarah Manguso
3.73
Format: 238 pages,
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was f… read more
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- poetry
4. I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more
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- art
- fiction
5. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
6. The Woman Warrior
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more
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7. Amatka
By: Karin Tidbeck
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language--literall… read more
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8. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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9. My Body Is a Book of Rules
By: Elissa Washuta
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself ove… read more
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10. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics
By: C.A. Conrad
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."--Eileen Myles "Conrad's work shows us that th… read more
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11. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
12. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- fiction
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
13. Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fantasy
- fiction
14. The High Desert
By: James Spooner
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- adult
15. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- fiction
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
16. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more
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17. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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- essays
18. Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
By: Sabrina Orah Mark
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life… read more
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- short stories
- essays
"We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the f…"-Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
19. Monster Portraits
By: Sofia Samatar
4.06
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the mon… read more
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- poetry
- art
- graphic novels
- adult
- short stories
- comics
- essays
- fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
20. The Witch of Eye
By: Kathryn Nuernberger
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches”… read more
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- poetry
- essays
"One way of thinking about a wife is that she is more or less invisible and so more or less free, provided she can remember to keep her head down long enough to stay that way."-Kathryn Nuernberger, The Witch of Eye
"The character of a king is a way of believing things happen for a reason. The queen is a way of being angry at someone besides God. A witch is a woman who thought her story ended with that wedding a …"-Kathryn Nuernberger, The Witch of Eye
21. What Runs Over
By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli
4.47
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Born from the isolation of rural Pennsylvania, a life of homeschooling, and psychological and physi… read more
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- poetry
