I Was the President's Mistress!!
By: Miguel Syjuco
3.12
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
I Was the President's Mistress!! is an unflinching satire about power, corruption, sex, and all the…
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1. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
By: Shaun Usher
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more
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2. White Is for Witching
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole pu… read more
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- fiction
"But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you"-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
"Please tell a story about a girl who gets away."-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
"She won't forget or recover, she is inconsolable."-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
"The water was so cold on her skin that it felt dry."-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching
3. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
By: B.J. Novak
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From an actor, writer, and director of the hit TV comedy The Office (US version):a story collection… read more
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4. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
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- contemporary
5. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- literary fiction
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6. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
7. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- politics
8. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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9. Pretend I'm Dead
By: Jen Beagin
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner an… read more
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- novels
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"You respect me?" Sheila asked, surprised. "As a person?" "No, as a pigeon."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"She smiled. It was rare for her to find someone attractive physically and also to like what came out of their mouth."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"He was one of the fortunate ones. He'd emerged from childhood a whole person and his past wasn't some vast immovable mass with its own weather system."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
10. 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
- fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-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
11. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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- fiction
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12. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- fiction
- novels
13. Kittentits
By: Holly Wilson
3.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Do You Mind If I Cancel?: Things That Still Annoy Me
By: Gary Janetti
3.50
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time,… read more
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15. How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more
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- politics
16. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
17. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
18. Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
19. I Was the President's Mistress!!
By: Miguel Syjuco
3.12
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
I Was the President's Mistress!! is an unflinching satire about power, corruption, sex, and all the… read more
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- unfinished
- politics
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- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
20. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- novels
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- contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
