Geography of an Adultery
By: Agnès Riva
3.07
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
Dissecting a midlife affair, this perceptive, slyly comical debut explores how the spaces that limi…
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1. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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2. Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel
By: Truman Capote
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions… read more
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3. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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4. The Dry Heart
By: Natalia Ginzburg
4.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more
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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
5. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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- literary fiction
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6. Lucky Dogs
By: Helen Schulman
3.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devast… read more
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- literary fiction
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7. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
8. The Woman in the Purple Skirt
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. Very Cold People
By: Sarah Manguso
3.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more
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"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
10. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women
By: Molly Llewellyn
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more
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11. Last Summer in the City
By: Gianfranco Calligarich
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last S… read more
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"Tą kartą ir sužinojau, kad du žmonės tyli tyliau už vieną."-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
"There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, wh…"-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
12. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
13. 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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- fiction
"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
14. Bookworm
By: Robin Yeatman
2.96
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
A wickedly funny debut novel--a black comedy with a generous heart that explores the power of imagi… read more
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15. Breakdown
By: Cathy Sweeney
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
16. Connemara
By: Nicolas Mathieu
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Hélène a bientôt quarante ans. Elle est née dans une petite ville de l’Est de la France. Elle a fai… read more
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- france
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"... autour de cette place banale, avec son PMU, sa boulangerie, son agence immobilière, et non loin de l'église toujours vide, un monde jouissait pleinement de son sursis. Et en ce beau dimanche de m…"-Nicolas Mathieu, Connemara
17. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
18. Diva
By: Daisy Goodwin
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more
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19. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- fiction
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
20. War Diary
By: Yevgenia Belorusets
4.35
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A monumental, deeply penetrating document of life in Kyiv during the first forty-one days of the Ru… read more
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"The wounds keep getting bigger. But sometimes a little voice comes to whisper in my ear, constantly repeating: ‘They keep fighting, we keep fighting.’ Then the wounds heal faster."-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to go on fighting, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands - this promi…"-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"There exists in this war a strange calculation, which obeys no clear logic, that devalues everyday life to the point of negation. In the eyes of those who order an attack on a peaceful city, life in …"-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
21. Hot Springs Drive
By: Lindsay Hunter
3.52
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Jackie loved her best friend Theresa from the moment they met nearly fifteen years ago. Now, Theres… read more
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22. The Archive of Feelings
By: Peter Stamm
3.60
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could hav… read more
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- fiction
23. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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24. Post-Traumatic
By: Chantal V. Johnson
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more
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25. The Harpy
By: Megan Hunter
3.31
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her … read more
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26. Revenge of the Scapegoat
By: Caren Beilin
3.44
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed le… read more
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27. Set for Life
By: Andrew Ewell
3.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A wryly funny and moving novel that captures the complexities of marriage, art, friendship, and the… read more
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28. Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
By: Colombe Schneck
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and best-selling French author, a woman personal journey through abortion, s… read more
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29. Ana Turns
By: Lisa Gornick
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“This moving portrait of a woman assessing the friendships, romances, and family relationships that… read more
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30. My Nemesis
By: Charmaine Craig
3.38
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Pri… read more
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31. Geography of an Adultery
By: Agnès Riva
3.07
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
Dissecting a midlife affair, this perceptive, slyly comical debut explores how the spaces that limi… read more
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