Specimen
By: Madison Hamill
4.39
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprint…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Sometimes telling the truth requires lying"-Madison Hamill, Specimen
"Sometimes telling the truth requires lying"-Madison Hamill, Specimen
"The American dream of economic meritocracy where virtue is equated with wealth."-Madison Hamill, Specimen
"The American dream of economic meritocracy where virtue is equated with wealth."-Madison Hamill, Specimen
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- contemporary
4. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-sellin… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
5. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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6. Sourdough
By: Robin Sloan
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world… read more
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- contemporary
"Culture,"-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"It was a fungal party hellscape."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"You went to Greenland...on purpose," Naz said."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"I agree," Mona said. As if she had any choice."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
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8. The Murder Rule
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.67
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more
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- contemporary
"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule
9. Still Life
By: Sarah Winman
4.17
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more
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"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
10. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- contemporary
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
11. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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- contemporary
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
12. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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- nonfiction
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
13. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- nonfiction
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
14. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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- nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
15. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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- nonfiction
- contemporary
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
16. In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.42
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more
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- nonfiction
"But this story? This one's mine."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
17. Migrations
By: Charlotte McConaghy
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behi… read more
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- contemporary
"What makes a young thing like you so tired of life?"-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
"All these humans have left no space for anything else."-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
"There is nothing so disturbing as a creature born to flight being bound to dull lifelessness."-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
"I think there is meaning, and it lives in nurturing, in making life sweeter for ourselves, and for those around us."-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
18. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- contemporary
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
19. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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- contemporary
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
20. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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- contemporary
21. Dear Dolly
By: Dolly Alderton
3.83
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
22. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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- contemporary
23. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- contemporary
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
24. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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- contemporary
25. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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- contemporary
"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
26. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter
By: Noelle McCarthy
4.13
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more
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- nonfiction
27. People Person
By: Joanna Cho
4.38
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on… read more
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28. This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir
By: Alison Jones
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pākehā. Every Pākehā becomes a Pā… read more
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- nonfiction
29. You Probably Think This Song is About You
By: Kate Camp
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of h… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
30. Can You Tolerate This?
By: Ashleigh Young
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling—and already prizewinning—collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappoin… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
31. Specimen
By: Madison Hamill
4.39
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprint… read more
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- essays
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"Sometimes telling the truth requires lying"-Madison Hamill, Specimen
"The American dream of economic meritocracy where virtue is equated with wealth."-Madison Hamill, Specimen
"In a naïve attempt to put a familiar label on him, I asked if he’d considered whether he was on the autism spectrum. “Nah,"-Madison Hamill, Specimen
"There is one group of comparative psychologists who spend a lot of time training chimpanzees to do things that humans can do like use language and solve problems. This is mostly because the researche…"-Madison Hamill, Specimen
