8 must-read horror books like I'm From Nowhere by Lindsay Lerman

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I'm From Nowhere

By: Lindsay Lerman

4.30

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Will today be the day the world burns down? Will a wildfire sweep across the landscape and consume …

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1. Occultation and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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2. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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3. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Pornocracy (Semiotext

By: Catherine Breillat

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • literature
  • fiction
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5. The Devil in the Flesh

By: None , Raymond Radiguet

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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6. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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7. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • fiction
  • horror

8. The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable L… read more

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9. Promising Young Women

By: Suzanne Scanlon

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties, … read more

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10. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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11. Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

By: Marvin Heiferman , Nan Goldin , Mark Holborn , None

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

A photobook classic, and perhaps the work for which New York photographer Nan Goldin remains best k… read more

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12. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

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13. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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14. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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15. Civil Service: Poems

By: Claire Schwartz

4.23

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

While the spectacle of state violence fleetingly commands a collective gaze, Civil Service turns to… read more

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16. Burn You the Fuck Alive

By: B.R. Yeager

4.01

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more

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  • fiction
  • dark
  • horror
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17. I Wished

By: Dennis Cooper

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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18. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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19. Forever

By: Thomas Moore

4.44

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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20. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

By: Elena Ferrante

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more

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  • literature
"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Cover of The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

21. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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  • dark
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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23. Invisibility: A Manifesto

By: Audrey Szasz

4.38

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

’Shut your mouth,’ Mother tells me. I shut my mouth. ‘Wipe that idiotic grin off your face,’ she sa… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Zealous Immaculate

By: Audrey Szasz

4.38

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

LIFE DURING WARTIME "Basking like a reptile in your reflected glories. I just respond. Sometimes… read more

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  • fiction
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25. If You Died Tomorrow I Would Eat Your Corpse

By: Wrath James White

3.24

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

Poems of the Erotic, the Romantic, the Violent, and the Grotesque. read more

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  • horror
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26. I'm From Nowhere

By: Lindsay Lerman

4.30

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Will today be the day the world burns down? Will a wildfire sweep across the landscape and consume … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • literature
  • dark
  • fiction
  • womens
  • horror
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27. Voideuse

By: Kaisa Saarinen

4.57

Format: 45 pages, Paperback

VOIDEUSE is a hybrid collection of short stories and poetry that emerges from and examines a state … read more

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28. Tell Me You've Earned It

By: Kat Giordano

4.73

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

praise for Kat Giordano's Tell Me You've Earned It: "...an audacious collection from a poet who … read more

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29. Waterfall Girls

By: Kimberly White

3.80

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Legend has it that the first waterfall was created when an angry sea god threw his trident into a c… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Letters to Jenny Just After She Died by Charlene Elsby

30. Letters to Jenny Just After She Died

By: Charlene Elsby

4.75

Format: 22 pages, Paperback

JENNY IF YOU’RE OUT THERE HOWEVER THAT MAY BE JUST KNOW I LOVED YOU read more

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31. Paresis

By: Isabelle Nicou

4.67

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The paresis conquered my entire right side in a procession of patient and orderly ants. Pins and ne… read more

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  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

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The Lover

Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Pornocracy (Semiotext

Catherine Breillat

3.50

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Period

Dennis Cooper

3.85

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The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

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Story of the Eye

Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

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Dennis Cooper

3.72

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