You Never Get It Back (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
By: Cara Blue Adams
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructe…
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1. A Far Cry from Kensington
By: Muriel Spark
3.83
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more
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- literary fiction
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"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
2. Utan personligt ansvar
By: Lena Andersson
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
Ester Nilsson ar tillbaka. Och hon har inte lart sig nagonting. Fem ar efter Hugo Rask traffar Este… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- novels
4. Lightning Rods
By: Helen DeWitt
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"All I want is to be a success. That's all I ask." Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encycloped… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
5. Rich and Pretty
By: Rumaan Alam
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how t… read more
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6. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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7. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
8. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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9. Mercy Street
By: Jennifer Haigh
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
10. Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
By: Pam Houston
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“I’ve always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake."-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
"Several times in my life, I’ve sat with women, friends of mine, who reveal, sometimes shyly, sometimes proudly, bruises of one kind or another, and I know I’ve said, “If it happens one time, leave hi…"-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
"And even though I knew in my head there’s nothing a man can do that a woman can’t, I also knew in my heart we can’t help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exac…"-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
11. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
13. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
14. Very Cold People
By: Sarah Manguso
3.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
15. My First Book
By: Honor Levy
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."-Honor Levy, My First Book
16. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
17. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- family
18. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
19. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
20. American Spirits
By: Russell Banks
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
22. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
By: Jami Attenberg
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and e… read more
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23. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
24. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
25. Killingly
By: Katharine Beutner
3.39
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves … read more
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- fiction
26. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
27. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
By: C.J. Hauser
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essa… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
"What were you told had to happen in a story for it to feel complete?"-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"The Story rules are coming from inside the house. And the house always wins."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"How do we talk about the loss of a thing for which their is no word? The lack of a word implies that it was never anything. It was never real."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"I'm starting to think that living a dramatic, story-worthy life and happiness are, at worst, mutually exclusive, and, at best, giving each other a run for their money."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
28. Bad Thoughts
By: Nada Alic
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and co… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. You Never Get It Back (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
By: Cara Blue Adams
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- american
- coming of age
- gender
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
31. American Estrangement: Stories
By: Said Sayrafiezadeh
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from de… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
