Starling Days
By: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She trie…
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1. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
2. Okay Days
By: Jenny Mustard
3.76
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days
3. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
4. The Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
5. Wet Paint
By: Chloë Ashby
3.79
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything an… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Expectation
By: Anna Hope
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"They discuss whether discharge - with its pejorative connotations - is itself a patriarchal term. They decide that there are as many different types of vaginal abjects as Inuits have words for snow. …"-Anna Hope, Expectation
"Her head hurts - from the alcohol, from her mother, from the sun. _We changed the world for you and what have you done with it?_ She knows what Sarah thinks. That she has wasted time - fumbled the ba…"-Anna Hope, Expectation
7. As Young as This
By: Roxy Dunn
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men M… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
8. The White Rock
By: Anna Hope
3.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
I see you. Inside the cage you have been given. The cage you have made. The cages we have all madeI… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
"the two young women discussed whether you should ever trust a man who liked Kerouac. No. They decided. Definitely not. And then laughed together as though to say: surely that much is obvious?"-Anna Hope, The White Rock
"the town had been the arrival port for thousands of Yoeme people, deported from Sonora in the first years of the twentieth century, under the regime of Porfirio Díaz. People who had been forcibly rem…"-Anna Hope, The White Rock
"Driving along the highway from the airport, they had passed mile upon mile of grain elevators, marking the most productive land in Mexico, but when they reached the place where Google Maps said the r…"-Anna Hope, The White Rock
9. Crow Talk
By: Eileen Garvin
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"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
11. Braised Pork
By: An Yu
3.45
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You're like water. Your beauty is soft and quiet."-An Yu, Braised Pork
"Her father's hands, holding the chopsticks, were slightly unsteady - something she had first noticed years ago when he took her out to lunch, but tonight, it made her heart clench and tremble."-An Yu, Braised Pork
12. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Three Rooms
By: Jo Hamya
3.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman’s endless quest for an apartment of her own and th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Now, even to me, it seemed ridiculous to concede that I had accumulated substantial debt and a few degrees so that I might contractually labor for the sake of having two free days a week in which to …"-Jo Hamya, Three Rooms
14. Before My Actual Heart Breaks
By: Tish Delaney
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
I’m not yours and you’re not mine. That’s what I say to his dreaming face as I watch the shadows of… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
16. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
17. Nothing but Blue Sky
By: Kathleen MacMahon
3.91
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies … read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"The pain was still there, the pain was always there, but I had a soothing feeling on top of it, like when you apply a cooling gel to sunburn."-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
"Fifty-one years old and still only slowly coming to some understanding of my life, I sat on a beach on the Costa Brava, digesting the terrifying knowledge that we hold in our hands each other's fragi…"-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
"It was exhausting to me, and touching at the same time, how my friends took such care to gather up every morsel of her life. They collated these shards of her history with all the white-glove care of…"-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
"I know what you're saying, and of course there will be a moment of sadness, always, that Mary Rose isn't there. But the happy occasions will still be happy occasions, because that's how life works. H…"-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
18. The Hungover Games: A True Story
By: Sophie Heawood
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This "funny, dark, and true" (Caitlin Moran) memoir is Bridget Jones's Diary for the Fleabag What … read more
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- contemporary
"A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’."-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story
"She is the smallest person I have ever held and the biggest thing I have ever seen."-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story
"I am so used to being a rebel, or is it a narcissist, that I don’t know how to have a partner."-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story
"Meanwhile, I felt a strong urge to be honest everywhere and about everything, which is probably why I drank."-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story
19. Starling Days
By: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She trie… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
20. Open Up
By: Thomas Morris
3.77
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. Pity Party
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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- fiction
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