The Backwards Hand: A Memoir
By: Matt Lee
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster.Told in lyric…
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1. The House That Horror Built
By: Christina Henry
3.22
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more
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- horror
2. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
3. Linea Nigra
By: Jazmina Barrera
4.30
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Simultaneously a work of collaboration between mother and child and a diary of worry and joy, Linea… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Una amiga me contó de Mary Shelley, que estaba embarazada mientras escribía Frankenstein. Era evidente, y sin embargo todas las veces que leí la novela no lo había visto: Frankenstein es una histori…"-Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra
4. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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5. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
6. 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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- horror
7. Someone Who Isn’t Me
By: Geoff Rickly
4.60
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone… read more
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"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me
8. The Eyes Are the Best Part
By: Monika Kim
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more
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- horror
9. Negative Space (SFWP Literary Awards)
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.23
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"Dancyger crafts a striking composition out of found objects, a poignant portrait of the identities… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
10. American Rapture
By: C.J. Leede
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sop… read more
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- horror
11. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
12. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories
By: Sarah Coolidge
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more
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13. I Was a Teenage Slasher
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.68
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more
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14. The Story Game
By: Shze-Hui Tjoa
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. Pregaming Grief
By: Danielle Chelosky
4.61
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Evoking the spirit of Annie Ernaux — who in Simple Passion "experienced pleasure like a future pain… read more
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16. The Backwards Hand: A Memoir
By: Matt Lee
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster.Told in lyric… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
- horror
17. Smothermoss
By: Alisa Alering
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more
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- horror
18. Antenora
By: Dori Lumpkin
4.32
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Antenora: Dante’s ninth circle of hell reserved for traitors to their country. What really happe… read more
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19. Flunker
By: Dennis Cooper
3.94
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more
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20. Stab Frenzy
By: Gary J. Shipley
4.69
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Stab Frenzy is about four members (once five) of an art collective bent on destroying their own ide… read more
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21. Old Wounds
By: Logan-Ashley Kisner
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Erin and Max are two trans kids who are just trying to get to California. Max is desperate to final… read more
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