Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
By: Peter Orner
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle A…
Want to Read $ 13.99"I only want to repeat what you already know. There is no limit to how far a person can fall in America."-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
"I only want to repeat what you already know. There is no limit to how far a person can fall in America."-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
"I only want to repeat what you already know. There is no limit to how far a person can fall in America."-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
"And she'd apologize for what what she remembered and what she forgot. A lot depended on what they both forgot. [Montreal]"-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
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1. Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
Named by the Guardianas one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen obse… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
2. The Dog of the South
By: Charles Portis
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
3. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more
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- fiction
4. Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
5. The Collected Stories
By: Lydia Davis
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American v… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short stories
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- contemporary
6. Heart Spring Mountain
By: Robin MacArthur
3.33
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
7. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
8. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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9. Bluebeard
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.06
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
10. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
By: Richard Flanagan
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. Richard Flana… read more
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11. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
12. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- audiobook
14. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
15. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
16. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- contemporary
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
17. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- audiobook
18. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
20. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
21. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
22. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
By: Moshe Kasher
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more
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- audiobook
23. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
By: Dani Shapiro
3.89
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a r… read more
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- audiobook
"It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"The hidden disaster was secrecy, the pretense and magical thinking, the certainty that no one ever needed to know."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
24. The Cold Millions
By: Jess Walter
3.96
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another “literary miracle” … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
25. The Book (Wave Books, 110)
By: Mary Ruefle
4.57
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s la… read more
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26. All the World Beside
By: Garrard Conley
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
27. Zenith Man
By: Jennifer Haigh
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
Whatever had been going on inside the shuttered old house, the couple who lived there kept it to th… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. Love and Hot Chicken
By: Mary Liza Hartong
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The debut of a dynamite new voice from the South, Love and Hot Chicken is a spicy and hilarious Ten… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
By: Peter Orner
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle A… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- american
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I only want to repeat what you already know. There is no limit to how far a person can fall in America."-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
"And she'd apologize for what what she remembered and what she forgot. A lot depended on what they both forgot. [Montreal]"-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
"And I thought, Holy fuck, we're not dead. Together. As in not dead yet. Think of all the years we will be. Our bodies turn to caramel. [Naked Man Hides]"-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
"For me what reverberates, what I often relive and relive, are those times that were cut short, times so fleeting they hardly even happened. [Maggie Brown]"-Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
30. Bad Hobby: Poems
By: Kathy Fagan
4.30
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby , a perceptive collection focused on… read more
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