What If We Were Somewhere Else
By: Wendy J. Fox
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the critically acclaimed author of If The Ice Had Held , The Seven Stages of Anger and Other S…
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1. The Coast of Chicago: Stories
By: Stuart Dybek
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I’d ever had the feeling of mis…"-Stuart Dybek, The Coast of Chicago: Stories
2. After the Quake
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.77
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Are you prepared to die?"-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
3. Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2)
By: Natasha Pulley
3.30
Format: 208 pages,
The author has said in an interview: The next book follows on from Watchmaker. Thaniel and Mori go … read more
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- fiction
4. New People
By: Danzy Senna
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manne… read more
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5. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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6. Seize the Day
By: Cynthia Ozick , Saul Bellow
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the ful… read more
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7. Smile and Look Pretty
By: Amanda Pellegrino
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A whip-smart, piercing debut novel, Smile and Look Pretty follows four assistants who band together… read more
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- fiction
8. Margo's Got Money Troubles
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more
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- fiction
"I’m just saying,"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
9. I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan
By: Katie Porter
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing… read more
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10. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- fiction
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
11. Games and Rituals
By: Katherine Heiny
3.82
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Some people say that migraines feel like bad hangovers. And some people say that migraines feel like headaches that pulse. And some people say that migraines feel like stomach flu in your head. But w…"-Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals
12. Five Tuesdays in Winter
By: Lily King
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"It's not here anymore." He said. "What?" "What happened."-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter
"She wondered how other people adjusted to vacations. It was such an unpleasant feeling, like gunning a car in neutral."-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter
"Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss."-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter
"Socially we balanced each other out. He was the guy who came into the room and everyone was relieved. I made people deeply uneasy, myself most of all."-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter
13. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
14. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
15. My Monticello
By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a w… read more
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- fiction
"To me guns meant indiscriminate power, the risk of fatally misjudging someone else's worth."-Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello
16. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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17. Pulling the Wings Off Angels
By: K.J. Parker
3.70
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to thi… read more
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- fiction
"There's nothing quite like the scriptures for killing faith stone dead. Actually reading them and thinking about what they said evaporated my belief like spit on a hot stove."-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
"Mercy isn't fair, it means someone getting away with what he did because the Boss feels sorry for him. Justice is fair. Justice puts people in prison. Mercy lets them out again. Of course mercy isn't…"-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
"That's the thing about belief, you can't make yourself do it. It's like falling asleep or being in love. You can lie there all night desperately wanting to go to sleep, and the more you want the more…"-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
"He's perfect, so He must be like us and not a bit like them across the border. He thinks like us, obviously; He likes what we like and hates what we hate, and here's Scripture (recorded, translated, …"-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
18. How Strange a Season
By: Megan Mayhew Bergman
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s… read more
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- fiction
19. What If We Were Somewhere Else
By: Wendy J. Fox
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the critically acclaimed author of If The Ice Had Held , The Seven Stages of Anger and Other S… read more
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- fiction
20. Happy Like This (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
By: Ashley Wurzbacher
3.88
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
The characters in Happy Like This are smart girls and professional women—social scientists, linguis… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
21. How to Walk on Water and Other Stories
By: Rachel Swearingen
4.18
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
In this spellbinding debut story collection, characters willingly open their doors to trouble. An i… read more
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