Stubborn Archivist
By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler
3.70
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For fans of Chemistry and Normal People: A mesmerizing and witty debut novel about a young woman gr…
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1. Negroland
By: Margo Jefferson
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac--here is a deeply … read more
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2. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
3. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
4. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
5. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
6. Rosewater
By: Liv Little
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
7. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
8. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
9. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
10. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
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- adult
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
11. Crudo
By: Olivia Laing
3.19
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acc… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"-Olivia Laing, Crudo
12. Popisho
By: Leone Ross
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."-Leone Ross, Popisho
13. Saltwater
By: Jessica Andrews
3.79
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
14. Fifty Sounds
By: Polly Barton
4.15
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of… read more
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"Over time, I have come to believe that if language learning is anything, it is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable …"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Very often a desire to write is a desire to live more honestly through language' (Rachel Cusk)…In writing, one can be at a remove not only from the observing eye of society, but also from the somatic…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
15. The Coiled Serpent
By: Camilla Grudova
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. Homesick
By: Jennifer Croft
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language… read more
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- coming of age
- literary fiction
- adult
17. 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
- contemporary
- novels
18. The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
From an explosive new literary talent, a searing, moving memoir of family, adolescence and sexualit… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"We're thinking, does life owe us anything. Did we get it wrong? And time is an animal, man. The years. Time is killing us it has us in its teeth."-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"Time is an illusion, say the scientists. It is molecular, it is bendable or liquid, it is soldered metal; or it is droplets of memory. I imagine it looks like mercury, silver and elusive...Burn all t…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"I am somewhere else now. I am part human, part metaphysics, and I still haven't worked out which parts of me are which. I love this new form. I can feel space traveling through me. I am porous and wo…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
19. Stubborn Archivist
By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler
3.70
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For fans of Chemistry and Normal People: A mesmerizing and witty debut novel about a young woman gr… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- poetry
- british literature
- coming of age
- brazil
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
20. Gender Theory
By: Madeline Docherty
4.27
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more
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- adult
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21. 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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- literary fiction
- adult
- 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
