Concerning the Future of Souls
By: Joy Williams
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b…
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1. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
2. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
3. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"...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
5. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
6. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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- poetry
7. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
By: Lydia Millet
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more
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- audiobook
8. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
By: Danielle Dutton
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more
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- short stories
9. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)
By: Dino Buzzati
3.53
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more
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- fiction
10. Dayspring
By: Anthony Oliveira
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- fiction
"when god died he died whimpering"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
11. Followed by the Lark
By: Helen Humphreys
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of ch… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
12. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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- audiobook
13. The Skunks
By: Fiona Warnick
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
15. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
16. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
17. The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more
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18. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
20. Rejection: Fiction
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction
21. Concerning the Future of Souls
By: Joy Williams
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- american
- female authors
- humor
- philosophy
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
22. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
23. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
24. 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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- short stories
- fiction
25. The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
By: Adam Moss
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations exami… read more
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26. Please Stop Trying to Leave Me
By: Alana Saab
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender."-Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me
27. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
28. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
29. There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
By: Brad Watson
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary South… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
30. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
31. Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life
By: Sofia Samatar
4.41
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship… read more
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