Notes on Womanhood
By: Sarah Jane Barnett
4.41
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn…
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1. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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2. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
3. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
4. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
5. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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6. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
7. Matrix
By: Lauren Groff
3.68
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more
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"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
8. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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9. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
10. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
11. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
12. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
13. Emotional Female
By: Yumiko Kadota
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more
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14. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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15. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
16. 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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17. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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18. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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19. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
20. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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21. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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22. All's Well
By: Mona Awad
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more
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"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
23. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter
By: Noelle McCarthy
4.13
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more
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24. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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25. The Mirror Book
By: Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writ… read more
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- memoir
26. Tauhou
By: Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities b… read more
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"Each no-dig hāngi we make in the oven with cabbage leaves sutures a different part of me back together. Every time we collect and cook something together with love and joy makes up for every time I a…"-Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou
27. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
28. Supper Club
By: Lara Williams
3.46
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who mee… read more
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"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
29. You Probably Think This Song is About You
By: Kate Camp
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of h… read more
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30. Notes on Womanhood
By: Sarah Jane Barnett
4.41
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn… read more
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31. All That We Know
By: Shilo Kino
4.61
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more
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