Mothers: Stories
By: Chris Power
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Chris Power’s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends—c…
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1. The Fight
By: Norman Mailer
4.04
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fi… read more
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- literature
"How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse."-Norman Mailer, The Fight
"It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an imp…"-Norman Mailer, The Fight
"(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw,…"-Norman Mailer, The Fight
2. Public Library and Other Stories
By: Ali Smith
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- british literature
3. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more
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4. Jillian
By: Halle Butler
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Megan, recently out of college and working a meaningless job as a gastroenterologist's secretary, o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Chew, Vol. 3: Just Desserts
By: John Layman , Rob Guillory
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Things are looking up for Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic im… read more
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- fiction
6. Röda rummet
By: August Strindberg
3.43
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Roda rummet utkom hosten 1879 och inleds med det bevingade voltaireska mottot om det obehagliga i a… read more
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7. Chew, Vol. 2: International Flavor
By: John Layman , Rob Guillory
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Detektyw cybopata Tony Chu, potrafiacy odbierac mentalne odczucia ze wszystkiego, co zjada, przyjmu… read more
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8. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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9. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
10. 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
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
11. 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
12. Vacuum in the Dark
By: Jen Beagin
3.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voic… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
14. Confrontaties
By: Simone Atangana Bekono
3.57
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.Sa… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
By: Meera Shah
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, au… read more
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16. The Night Raven (Crow Investigations #1)
By: Sarah Painter
3.79
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Lydia Crow... Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and m… read more
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- fiction
17. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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18. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
19. At the Table
By: Claire Powell
3.74
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
20. Anyone's Ghost
By: August Thompson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
22. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
23. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
24. Boys Don't Cry
By: Fíona Scarlett
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their … read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mental health
25. Love and Other Thought Experiments
By: Sophie Ward
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rachel and Eliza are hoping to have a baby. The couple spend many happy evenings together planning … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
26. The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession
By: Kate Summerscale
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, … read more
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- mental health
27. My Lady Parts: A Life Fighting Stereotypes
By: Doon MacKichan
4.06
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
The Feisty Feminist. The Hot Lesbian. The Desperate Cougar.The Deranged Mother. The Stupid Tart. Th… read more
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28. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker
By: Eve Smith
3.66
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more
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- adult
29. Mothers: Stories
By: Chris Power
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Chris Power’s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends—c… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- mental health
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
30. Heart, Be at Peace
By: Donal Ryan
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Little Boxes
By: Cecilia Knapp
3.93
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
A story of sacrifice, violence and growing up different – told against the heat and claustrophobia … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
