Bad Eminence
By: James Greer
3.22
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealt…
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1. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
2. Sexing the Cherry
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in th… read more
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3. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
4. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
5. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
6. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
7. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
8. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
9. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
10. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
11. Bad Fruit
By: Ella King
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of My Dark Vanessa and Celeste Ng, Bad Fruit is an unforgettable portrayal of a toxic moth… read more
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12. Briefly, A Delicious Life
By: Nell Stevens
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sand.In 14… read more
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"I don't want to be alone, I said. I don't understand why I am here alone."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"I was tired. I had been conscious for three hundred and seventy-nine years."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"The world is full of cowards she thinks. And it turns out sometimes the opposite of cowardice is playfulness."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"(...) thought of all that could be done between two women in possession of bodies, what effects could be achieved with fingers and tongues."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
13. Porn: An Oral History
By: Polly Barton
3.34
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more
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14. Your Love Is Not Good
By: Johanna Hedva
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispec… read more
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15. The Visitors
By: Jessi Jezewska Stevens
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
C can’t pay her debts. Once a renowned textile artist, her husband has left her sole proprietor of … read more
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16. Bad Eminence
By: James Greer
3.22
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealt… read more
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17. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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18. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. 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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21. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
