Girls of a Certain Age
By: Maria Adelmann
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This darkly playful and subversive debut story collection explores the many impossible choices that…
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1. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
By: Mona Awad
3.07
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"What does she even eat, do you think?" "Tea fungus,"Ruth says. "Unsweetened. From an eye dropper. Is what I picture. either that or some sort of sea vegetable." "Sad," I say. "It is," Ruth muses. We …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
2. 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
"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
3. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
4. The Adult
By: Bronwyn Fischer
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance. In the wet grass… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
6. Watching Women & Girls
By: Danielle Pender
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls
7. 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
"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
8. 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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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
"¿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
9. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
11. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
12. Pizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
"I began to picture the world without me in it."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
13. 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
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
14. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Ei ois susta uskonu
By: Emilia Laatikainen
4.28
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Sairaus kehittyy hiipien, mutta niin nopeasti, että sen salaaminen on hyvin vaikeaa. Päihderiippuvu… read more
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16. Sarahland
By: Sam Cohen
3.95
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story coll… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"That's how it is with nations," we hear Mother Nature croak from her deathbed. "Nations war."-Sam Cohen, Sarahland
"It seemed like everyone was wrapping themselves in chrysali and having late-in-life emergences as different kinds of creatures, and what this made clear was that we weren't becoming anything. We felt…"-Sam Cohen, Sarahland
"Being a tree, affirmation would feel different. Love would feel different. We would be happiest if our soil was full of microbes chatting. We would be happiest if the soil was rich enough to contain …"-Sam Cohen, Sarahland
17. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
By: Carribean Fragoza
3.82
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Carribean Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the domestic surreal, featuring an unusua… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- feminism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
18. A Bit Much
By: Sarah Jackson
3.69
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complex… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Burning Girls and Other Stories
By: Veronica Schanoes
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for The Independent Buzzfeed The Nerd DailyWhen we came to America,… read more
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- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
"This is the nature of time — it dilates during suffering and also during joy, rushes through our fingers into the sea when we seek to hold it tight; when we are depressed, the hours open up indefinit…"-Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls and Other Stories
"That's the thing about depression; it inures you to wonder, even to fear. Skulls are chattering and squealing and all you can do is sigh and accept that they're right, that your best days ARE behind …"-Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls and Other Stories
20. Girls of a Certain Age
By: Maria Adelmann
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This darkly playful and subversive debut story collection explores the many impossible choices that… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- lgbt
- feminism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
21. Kill For Love
By: Laura Picklesimer
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
