Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
By: Joel Golby
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
By the popular Vice contributor, a collection of full-throated appreciations, elaborate theories, a…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Instances of grief, I have found, are unique, two never coming in the same shape…"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"Instances of grief, I have found, are unique, two never coming in the same shape…"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"A lot of our fears are completely justifiable, and as a result we hold them close around us, like rosaries"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"A lot of our fears are completely justifiable, and as a result we hold them close around us, like rosaries"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
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1. The Accidental
By: Ali Smith
3.37
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidenta… read more
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- audiobook
- unfinished
- contemporary
"Believe me. Everything is meant."-Ali Smith, The Accidental
"Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed."-Ali Smith, The Accidental
"There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them."-Ali Smith, The Accidental
"She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death."-Ali Smith, The Accidental
2. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
3. Close Range
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Short-story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping Newsa… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
4. Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
By: Jon Ronson
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times-bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, unc… read more
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5. Love Junkie
By: Robert Plunket
4.50
Format: None pages,
The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more
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6. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
7. Conversations on Love
By: Natasha Lunn
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
8. In Defence of the Act
By: Effie Black
4.12
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more
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- humor
- contemporary
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
9. Happy Hour
By: Marlowe Granados
3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
10. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- audiobook
- humor
- contemporary
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
11. Everything I Know About Love
By: Dolly Alderton
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- self help
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
12. The Mess We’re In
By: Annie Macmanus
3.40
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more
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- audiobook
13. Writers & Lovers
By: Lily King
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily K… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature"-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
"It's a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone."-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
"They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines."-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
"God, you poets are full of shit. You have no idea what half the words you worship mean."-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
14. Who They Was
By: Gabriel Krauze
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the univ… read more
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- audiobook
- unfinished
- contemporary
"It's a terrible thing trying to love someone who can't teach you anything."-Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was
15. 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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- contemporary
"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
16. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the univer… read more
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- humor
- short stories
- essays
- contemporary
- audiobook
"People outgrow me,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I don’t even think about you,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
17. The Kellerby Code
By: Jonny Sweet
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
18. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
By: Juliet Annan
4.05
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
19. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
By: Mark O'Connell
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"A fantastic book. It's harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. O'Connell proves himself to b… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"The future is a source of fear not because we know what will happen, and that it will be terrible, but because we know so little, and have so little control. The apocalyptic sensibility, the apocalyp…"-Mark O'Connell, Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
20. Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
By: Joel Golby
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
By the popular Vice contributor, a collection of full-throated appreciations, elaborate theories, a… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- unfinished
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- self help
"Instances of grief, I have found, are unique, two never coming in the same shape…"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"A lot of our fears are completely justifiable, and as a result we hold them close around us, like rosaries"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"There is never enough cheese on the cheese course. Bring your own bit of Brie if you have to. Put an entire Stilton in your handbag."-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"America, you only get ten vacation days a year, but you also have a far healthier pancake culture inside of you, and I’m still weighing up whether that means you come out ahead or behind"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
21. Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs
By: Jordan Stephens
4.22
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
Love is a gift, isn't it? From our early childhood years to growing up and pairing off, it's a feel… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
