Horror Vacui : Poems and Other Writings
By: Shy Watson
4.49
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
I sat in the park eating veggie lo mein, eyes watery with the rotten pleasure of being alive. It ha…
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1. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
2. Go to work and do your job. Care for your children. Pay your bills. Obey the law. Buy products.
By: Noah Cicero
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Meet Mike. Mike wants to be a responsible human, but he's buried in student loans and job prospects… read more
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3. Stories V!
By: Scott McClanahan
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final installment of Scott McClanahan's collections of short stories, following Storiesand Stor… read more
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4. HHhH
By: Laurent Binet
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Deux parachutistes tchecoslovaques envoyes par Londres sont charges d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich,… read more
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5. Autoportrait
By: Édouard Levé , Lorin Stein
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Leve hides nothing from his readers, setting … read more
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6. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
7. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
8. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
9. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
10. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
11. The Novelist
By: Jordan Castro
3.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more
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12. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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13. This Might Hurt
By: Stephanie Wrobel
3.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrill… read more
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14. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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15. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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16. Welfare
By: Steve Anwyll
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Welfare" is wholly made up of four-line paragraphs and has a cadence that is uniquely its own. A h… read more
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17. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children i… read more
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18. I Have A Gun
By: Graham Irvin
4.88
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
There’s a gun inside the soul of every living thing. Made of anger. Made of shame. read more
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"God is a gun that gets you into heaven"-Graham Irvin, I Have A Gun
19. Someone Who Isn’t Me
By: Geoff Rickly
4.60
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone… read more
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"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me
20. Black Gypsies
By: Grant Wamack
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Chiraq… Marcus is a certified Jackboy on the streets of Chicago, stealing car parts w… read more
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21. Family Annihilator
By: Calvin Westra
4.42
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Oen is submitting a story called Family Annihilator, about a guy named Florian making a YouTube ser… read more
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22. Horror Vacui : Poems and Other Writings
By: Shy Watson
4.49
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
I sat in the park eating veggie lo mein, eyes watery with the rotten pleasure of being alive. It ha… read more
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23. Road Warrior Hawk: Poems about Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture
By: Brian Alan Ellis
4.07
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
100 POEMS ABOUT Guns N’ Roses tattoos ★ Hulk Hogan ★ punk rock ★ Brie Larson ★ love ★ Channing Tatu… read more
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24. I Still Love You, Peggy Bundy: Poems
By: Justin Grimbol
4.14
Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition
“[Grimbol’s writing is] stranger and more arresting than ordinary emotional realism. His work is au… read more
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25. Noah Cicero’s Wild Kingdom: An Autobiographical Poetry Adventure
By: Noah Cicero
4.55
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
My mother would get ready for work in the basement. She had a black and white television. The… read more
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26. Death Egg
By: Nathaniel Duggan
4.58
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Death Egg is a collection of poems about unemployment, love, jellyfish, despair, and apocalypses. E… read more
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27. Leasing
By: D.T. Robbins
4.87
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
David, like every other rock-bottom soul, runs out of options and ends up working at Victoria Lawn—… read more
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28. Log Off
By: Kristen Felicetti
4.71
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In the early 2000s, from a dial-up connection in a Western New York suburb, sixteen-year-old Ellora… read more
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29. Until It Feels Right
By: Emily Costa
4.57
Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition
Emily Costa has had obsessive-compulsive disorder since childhood. After decades of unsuccessful tr… read more
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30. Therapists Gone Wild
By: Jeff Schneider
4.40
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Jonathan is a young mental health therapist, fresh from the ivory tower, who naively embarks on an … read more
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31. Narwhal / Red Dolphin
By: Barracuda Guarisco
4.33
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
"NEAT!"Never Angeline North, author of Sea-Witch"Barracuda Guarisco writes like I think we all wish… read more
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