The Word for Woman Is Wilderness
By: Abi Andrews
3.62
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Erin is 19. She's never really left England, but she has watched Bear Grylls and wonders why it's a…
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1. El africano
By: J.M.G. Le Clézio
3.67
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Todo ser humano es el resultado de un padre y de una madre. Se puede no reconocerlos, no quererlos,… read more
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- contemporary
"La mémoire d'un enfant exagère les distances et les hauteurs."-J.M.G. Le Clézio, El africano
2. The Refrigerator Monologues
By: Catherynne M. Valente , Annie Wu
4.05
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women i… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- fiction
"I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues
"Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy. "-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues
"Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues
"Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues
3. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
4. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
By: Blair Braverman
3.80
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norw… read more
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- travel
- feminism
- nature
- adventure
5. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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- fiction
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7. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
By: Joshua Hammer
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls o… read more
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8. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
By: Roddy Doyle
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Irish Paddy rampages throu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide
By: Hal Higdon
3.68
Format: None pages,
Sixty-two-year-old marathon runner Higdon offers an action-packed guide for beginning and experienc… read more
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10. The Gloaming
By: Melanie Finn
3.95
Format: 315 pages,
Pilgrim's husband left her for another woman, stranding her in a Swiss town where she is involved i… read more
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11. Surfacing
By: Margaret Atwood
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist… read more
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12. The Business
By: Iain Banks
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kate is a senior executive officer in a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organization. T… read more
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13. The Death of the Heart
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
The Death of the Heartis perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately ex… read more
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15. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
17. 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
- feminism
- fiction
- womens
- adult
"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
18. Nothing Special
By: Nicole Flattery
3.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Punto de cruz
By: Jazmina Barrera
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
«Uno de los recuerdos más luminosos de mi infancia es aquel en el que mi madre, con su voz cálida y… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
20. 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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- travel
- environment
- nature
- contemporary
21. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
22. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
23. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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- womens
- nature
24. Sleeping Giants
By: Rene Denfeld
4.03
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, a compelling and poignant story … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Content Warning: Everything
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.94
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
26. The Neighbours
By: Nicola Gill
3.53
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Meet Ginny, 34, and Cassie, 55. Neighbours, and (very) unlikely friends. Some women have it al… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Feminist City: A Field Guide
By: Leslie Kern
3.92
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more
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- feminism
- womens
"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
28. Self-Portrait
By: Celia Paul
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer. Self-Portrait… read more
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- womens
- contemporary
"Decidí usar palabras en vez de cuadros porque las palabras son más directas para comunicarnos. El lenguaje hermético de la pintura guarda necesariamente su secreto, y su poder permanece en el misteri…"-Celia Paul, Self-Portrait
29. The Doll's Ghost
By: F. Marion Crawford
3.61
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Mr. Puckler is a doll doctor, and the dolls he repairs become very, very lifelike. read more
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30. The Word for Woman Is Wilderness
By: Abi Andrews
3.62
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Erin is 19. She's never really left England, but she has watched Bear Grylls and wonders why it's a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adventure
- travel
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
- environment
- nature
31. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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