The Human Zoo
By: Sabina Murray
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Filipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape…
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1. Often I Am Happy
By: Jens Christian Grøndahl
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
"Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; / For no heart fully shares my joy." -B.S. Ingemann Ellino… read more
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2. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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3. Goodbye, Vitamin
By: Rachel Khong
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her… read more
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4. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- contemporary
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
5. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
6. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
7. They're Going to Love You
By: Meg Howrey
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
8. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
10. Exteriors
By: Annie Ernaux
3.57
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more
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- contemporary
11. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
12. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
13. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- audiobook
"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
14. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
15. Tell Me I'm An Artist
By: Chelsea Martin
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a work-in-progress (Sharma Shields), this hilarious and incisive coming… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
18. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By: Samantha Allen
4.09
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Great Reclamation
By: Rachel Heng
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
20. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- asian literature
- audiobook
21. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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- fiction
22. Black Light
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.79
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden plac… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"It's me, it's me, it's me."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Death is just a countdown to the calm"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Every mother rages sometimes--this is called "parenting."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"I ask her: Wouldn't it be easier to just give death a different name?"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
23. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
24. Three Rooms
By: Jo Hamya
3.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman’s endless quest for an apartment of her own and th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Now, even to me, it seemed ridiculous to concede that I had accumulated substantial debt and a few degrees so that I might contractually labor for the sake of having two free days a week in which to …"-Jo Hamya, Three Rooms
25. La trilogía de París
By: Colombe Schneck
3.86
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
LA REVELACIÓN LITERARIA LLEGA DE FRANCIA La premiada Colombe Schneck «retrata la búsqueda de una… read more
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- literary fiction
26. Temporary
By: Hilary Leichter
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre pl… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Living is also a state of mourning."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"Life is a stranger in a crowd whose intentions are unclear and, come to think of it, so is death."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
27. Mother Doll
By: Katya Apekina
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
28. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
29. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
31. The Human Zoo
By: Sabina Murray
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Filipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
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- contemporary
- asian literature
- womens
- audiobook
