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…
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1. Hell Screen
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.20
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
2. 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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- horror
- fantasy
- 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
3. 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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- short stories
- collections
- fiction
- contemporary
4. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
5. Butcher
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more
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- feminism
- fiction
- horror
6. 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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- feminism
- 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
7. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
8. 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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9. Napalm al cor
By: Pol Guasch
3.69
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
«De vegades penso que estic anotant el futur. Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"El sol gratina el terra". "Un vespre cítric"."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
"Des d'aleshores viure es va convertir en sobreviure, que és la pitjor forma d'estar viu."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
"Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les paraules. Algú, potser, les podrà entendre."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
"Quan la tristesa es cansa i desapareix, la tristesa és, aleshores, el temps. I el pare duia el temps a dins."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
10. 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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- horror
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
By: Gail Crowther
3.80
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—… read more
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- feminism
"Perhaps the sadness here is that Plath and Sexton somehow could not quite gather the strength to truly believe in their self-worth, and in the end neither gave themselves time to."-Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
13. little scratch
By: Rebecca Watson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more
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- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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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- adult fiction
- feminism
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- horror
- fantasy
16. Lo Fi
By: Liz Riggs
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Swoony, sexy, and melancholy. . . a tattered love letter to youth, music, and Nashville.” —Daisy A… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Overstaying
By: Ariane Koch
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Winner of the aspekte Prize, the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
18. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- fantasy
19. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
20. 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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- science fiction
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
21. Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
By: Anna Bogutskaya
4.18
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Ho… read more
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- horror
