The Applicant
By: Nazli Koca
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A singular debut, The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, wom…
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1. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
2. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
4. Vintage Contemporaries
By: Dan Kois
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New Yor… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
5. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"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
7. Walking on the Ceiling
By: Aysegül Savas
3.50
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
"[Savaş] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"There are many ways of hurting without words. It is silence that shapes us."-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling
"I don't think you should try and teach anyone how to talk about their family," I said. "It's arrogant."-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling
"Stories are reckless things, blind to everything but their own shape. When you tell a story, you set out to leave so much behind."-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling
"Perhaps I'd felt all along, even when I lived with him, that I was passing the time, that my life hinged on the single moment when I'd learn that my mother was dying. Then I would set everything asid…"-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling
8. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
9. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
10. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
11. Service
By: Sarah Gilmartin
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- audiobook
13. Mobility
By: Lydia Kiesling
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
14. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
15. Ask Me Again
By: Clare Sestanovich
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nominee whose short stories received instant acclaim (“Sparing… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
17. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
18. The Guest Lecture
By: Martin Riker
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
19. The Lookback Window
By: Kyle Dillon Hertz
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice. Growing… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The great shame of your life is that you weren't raised Catholic," James said to me. "You've got suffering, but you don't have the aesthetic."-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window
"Some people talk about their PTSD as if it's a badge of honor, and I roll my fucking eyes. I'm not trying to be the PDST-esy of them all. I ignored it for a really long time. I overdosed at seventeen…"-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window
20. Chrysalis
By: Anna Metcalfe
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
21. The Skunks
By: Fiona Warnick
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
23. The People Who Report More Stress
By: Alejandro Varela
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
24. My Nemesis
By: Charmaine Craig
3.38
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Pri… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
25. The Four Humors
By: Mina Seckin
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
26. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
27. Uranians: Stories
By: Theodore McCombs
3.90
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “… read more
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- adult
- fiction
28. The Applicant
By: Nazli Koca
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A singular debut, The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, wom… read more
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- germany
- mental health
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- womens
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- adult
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29. A Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misn… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- 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
31. 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
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
