The Dominant Animal
By: Kathryn Scanlan
3.58
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist In…
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- horror
"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
3. Berg
By: Giles Gordon , Ann Quin
3.83
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his fathe… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence; the ego only there to give significance"-Giles Gordon, Berg
"Threading experience through imaginative material, acting out fictitious parts, or choosing a stale-mate for compromise. Under this fabrication a secret army gathers defeating those who stalk the sca…"-Giles Gordon, Berg
4. Heroines
By: Kate Zambreno
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking th… read more
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5. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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6. 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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- literature
- the united states of america
"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
7. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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- literature
- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
8. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
9. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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- american
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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- fiction
- horror
11. 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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12. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- the united states of america
13. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
15. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- american
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
16. Walking Practice
By: Dolki Min
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more
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- fiction
- horror
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
17. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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- fiction
- horror
18. Animals Eat Each Other
By: Elle Nash
3.48
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
19. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
20. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
21. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
22. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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- contemporary
23. The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
24. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
By: Victoria Chang
4.50
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For … read more
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"My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers."-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become …"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew t…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
25. The Last Sane Woman
By: Hannah Regel
3.67
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness by an… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
26. The Dominant Animal
By: Kathryn Scanlan
3.58
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist In… read more
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- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
27. Belly Up: Stories
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of ha… read more
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- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
28. 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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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Sucker
By: Daniel Hornsby
3.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Succession meets Bad Blood in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent • The b… read more
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- fiction
- horror
30. 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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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
"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
31. Mrs. Jekyll
By: Emma Glass
4.02
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligati… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
