The Paper Garden
By: Caitlin Vance Stephens
4.35
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
THE PAPER GARDEN is a debut story collection of darkly humorous, gothic, speculative and feminist t…
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1. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
2. Northanger Abbey
By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam
3.85
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more
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"I have no talent for certainty."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
3. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
By: A.M. Shine
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
4. Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- fantasy
- lgbt
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
5. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
6. The Cabin at the End of the World
By: Paul Tremblay
3.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet N… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
"Too many people have smiles that don’t mean what a smile is supposed to mean."-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
"She juts out her lower jaw, a purposeful imitation of Daddy Eric when she asks him a question with an answer that isn't yes right away, but will be yes eventually if she waits long enough."-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
"No matter how bleak or dire, end-of-the-world scenarios appeal to us because we take meaning from the end... there's also undeniable allure to witnessing the beginning of the end and perishing alone …"-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
"They share another long look. This one is reserved for ill-fated observers in the moments before impending, inescapable calamity, whether it be natural disaster or violent failure of humanity; a look…"-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
7. The Second Life of Mirielle West
By: Amanda Skenandore
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In an intoxicating story of resilience, repulsion, and the Roaring 20’s, the glamorous world of a s… read more
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- adult
8. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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- short stories
- adult
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
9. Bloom
By: Delilah S. Dawson
3.90
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- lgbt
10. The Other Black Girl
By: Zakiya Dalila Harris
3.36
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two you… read more
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- adult
"Locs or no locs, though… you know one of your coworkers is gonna mix you and the new Black girl up at least once. I promise you."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"OBGs. "Other Black Girls," Lynn had dubbed them, "because they're not our kind." They were something else entirely. Something close to alien...."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"At a historically Black college, Diana had been granted the blessed gift of tunnel vision. She'd been blessed with the ability to forget white people existed, if only for a little while. I had been b…"-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"..eight or nine women and one extremely serious-looking man had decided to spend their Monday evening exercising with a demonic workout instructor n the Flatbush District rather than doing something …"-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
11. The Paper Garden
By: Caitlin Vance Stephens
4.35
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
THE PAPER GARDEN is a debut story collection of darkly humorous, gothic, speculative and feminist t… read more
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- lesbian
- retellings
- short story collection
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- adult
- fantasy
