The Confession of Copeland Cane
By: Keenan Norris
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive… H…
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1. The Wordy Shipmates
By: Sarah Vowell
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
The Wordy Shipmatesis New York Timesbest-selling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans … read more
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2. The Echo Wife
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, r… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I became an alone-thing, more than I had ever been before."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"I'll be taking you out for coffee later this week, and you can give me all the details. In the meantime, I'll commence hating him just a little , in case I need material to seed hating him a lot."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
3. Cold People
By: Tom Rob Smith
3.52
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
4. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
5. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- audiobook
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
6. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
7. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
8. Several People Are Typing
By: Calvin Kasulke
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- audiobook
"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
9. Our Country Friends
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.21
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
10. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
11. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
14. Chouette
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
15. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- audiobook
"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
16. An Island
By: Karen Jennings
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
18. Intimacies
By: Katie Kitamura
3.65
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
19. Mercury Pictures Presents
By: Anthony Marra
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
20. Mouth to Mouth
By: Antoine Wilson
3.67
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
21. The Shamshine Blind
By: Paz Pardo
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon an… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
22. Libertie
By: Kaitlyn Greenidge
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns w… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- audiobook
"Being a mother means being someone's God, if only briefly."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"If I burn her words, I will be free of whatever she wants of me. Instead I stuffed the papers back in my drawer."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
23. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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- race
24. American Mermaid
By: Julia Langbein
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
25. My Volcano
By: John Elizabeth Stintzi
3.54
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock is spotted by a jogger growing from the Central Park Reservoi… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
"His Farsi laden with a mat of nostalgia"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"And so here - after then, and after that - we are"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"In his little apartment, alone, Ash set his cocktail of alarms"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"On that page, they began to write a new book - a book without research. A book about a mountain. A volcano . Their volcano."-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
26. Subdivision
By: J. Robert Lennon
3.77
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
27. In Concrete
By: Anne Garréta
3.31
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Garreta’s first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
28. Nervous System
By: Lina Meruane
3.35
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
An electrifying novel about illness, displacement, and what holds us together, by the author of See… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Confession of Copeland Cane
By: Keenan Norris
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive… H… read more
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- race
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- audiobook
30. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
By: Michael Zapata
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript … read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"His father was a pirate."-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
"Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself."-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
31. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
