Poetics of Work
By: Noémi Lefebvre
3.54
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
As Lyon is consumed by protests, a darkly comic exploration of the push to be employed and the pull…
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1. Down Below
By: Leonora Carrington , Debra Taub
3.84
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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"I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all."-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
"I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg …"-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
2. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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3. Hôtel Splendid
By: Jordan Stump , Marie Redonnet
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
These three short novels are the first works to appear in English by a remarkable contemporary Fren… read more
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4. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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5. The First Bad Man
By: Miranda July
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more
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6. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
By: Z.Z. Packer
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Chosen by John Updike as a Today ShowBook Club Pick.Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now … read more
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7. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.72
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more
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"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
8. The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)
By: M.R. Carey
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A world where ov… read more
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"People will do what they got to do to be together. But it's the being together that matters more than the rules or the place."-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)
"I don't like people very much. I'm all in favour of them as a concept, but I don't get on with them at all when I have to mix with them."-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)
"I learned since then, and paid a price to learn, it that them as laid claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they're igno…"-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)
9. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
10. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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11. The Last Children of Tokyo
By: Yōko Tawada
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
12. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
13. Ocàs i fascinació
By: Eva Baltasar
3.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Flotes, això és el màxim que has aconseguit. Tens mitja feina, una habitació rellogada i un títol q… read more
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14. The Tusks of Extinction
By: Ray Nayler
3.85
Format: 192 pages, ebook
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more
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"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
15. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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- 21st century
- literary fiction
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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
16. Evidence of Things Not Seen
By: James Baldwin
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atla… read more
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"A Black policeman could completely demolish you. He knew far more about you than a White policeman could and you were without defense before this Black brother in uniform whose entire reason for brea…"-James Baldwin, Evidence of Things Not Seen
17. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
By: Danielle Dutton
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more
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18. Some of Them Will Carry Me
By: Giada Scodellaro
3.65
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Giada Scodellaro’s debut is a boldly original collection of stories ranging in length, style, and t… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. 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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"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
21. Poetics of Work
By: Noémi Lefebvre
3.54
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
As Lyon is consumed by protests, a darkly comic exploration of the push to be employed and the pull… read more
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