Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h…
Want to Read $ 14.99"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. [Narrator]"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. [Narrator]"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf ears, the child delivers them back with a simplistic effectiveness using their own words instead of the ones we fumbled and stumbled over, attempting to sound sage."-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf ears, the child delivers them back with a simplistic effectiveness using their own words instead of the ones we fumbled and stumbled over, attempting to sound sage."-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
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1. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
2. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
3. sun memos
By: Ziggy Alberts
4.03
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
sun memos is the second self-published poetry book by platinum ARIA accredited, Australian singer-s… read more
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4. Granite Harbor
By: Peter Nichols
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more
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5. Devils Kill Devils
By: Johnny Compton
3.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern g… read more
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6. Honey
By: Isabel Banta
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more
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- literary fiction
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"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"-Isabel Banta, Honey
"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."-Isabel Banta, Honey
7. The Road to the Country
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more
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"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country
8. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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9. Masquerade
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more
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10. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
11. Humor Me
By: Cat Shook
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A love letter to the New York City stand-up scene, as told by a charmingly jaded assistant at a lat… read more
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12. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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13. Pearce Oysters
By: Joselyn Takacs
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A family drama set along the Louisiana coastline during the 2010 BP Oil Spill, Pearce Oysters follo… read more
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14. Beautiful Days: Stories
By: Zach Williams
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a stagg… read more
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15. The Rich People Have Gone Away
By: Regina Porter
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more
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16. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more
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17. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
By: Dan Slepian
4.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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18. Everything We Never Had
By: Randy Ribay
4.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. Sacrificial Animals
By: Kailee Pedersen
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more
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"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
21. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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