Gunk Baby
By: Jamie Marina Lau
3.13
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and a thematic design scheme. Twe…
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1. Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
By: Penelope Mortimer
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting is about the expectations of women, about a house-bound mother reluctantly (… read more
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2. Damascus Nights
By: Philip Boehm , Rafik Schami
4.28
Format: 315 pages,
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3. Traplines
By: Eden Robinson
3.73
Format: 112 pages,
The menacing underside of family life is the subject of Eden Robinson's debut collection. In crackl… read more
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4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"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
5. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
6. Brutalities: A Love Story
By: Margo Steines
4.16
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more
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- audiobook
"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story
7. Y/N
By: Esther Yi
2.95
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more
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- literary fiction
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- adult
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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."-Esther Yi, Y/N
"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
8. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
9. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
10. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
12. New Animal
By: Ella Baxter
3.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
13. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"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
14. 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
15. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
16. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
17. A Room Called Earth
By: Madeleine Ryan
3.69
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young woman, whose radical perspective illuminates a … read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"Dancing in the rain doesn’t “make sense"-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
"Everything comes alive when I'm technically by myself."-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
"I just like having something edible to look forward to."-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
"It's strange to think that we're all here because someone wasn't killed at some point."-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
18. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
20. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
21. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- thriller
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- audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
22. Normal Women
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
23. 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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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
24. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
By: Molly McGhee
3.50
Format: 304 pages, None
Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
25. Grand Union
By: Zadie Smith
3.26
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, f… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You…"-Zadie Smith, Grand Union
26. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
27. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
28. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
29. 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
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
30. Gunk Baby
By: Jamie Marina Lau
3.13
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and a thematic design scheme. Twe… read more
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- australia
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