Book of Gods & Grudges
By: Jessica L. Walsh
4.60
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Jessica Walsh's Book of Gods and Grudges tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She…
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1. The Devil All the Time
By: Donald Ray Pollock
4.13
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters f… read more
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"Some people were born just so they could be buried."-Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time
2. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
By: Lorrie Moore
3.83
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman… read more
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"What the fuck, babe."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
"I feel his lack of love for me."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
"They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
"It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
3. The Awful Rowing Toward God
By: Anne Sexton
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Sexton's eighth collection of poetry is entitled The Awful Rowing Toward God. The title came from h… read more
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"Someone brought me oranges in my despair but I could not eat a one"-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God
"The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart."-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God
"There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God gives milk and I have the pail"-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God
"Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?"-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God
4. A Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
4.22
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more
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"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Whatever can't be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
5. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
6. Waiting for God
By: Simone Weil
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
"My dear father, I have made up my mind to write to you....I have been wondering lately about the w… read more
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7. The Witch Boy
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to … read more
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8. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
By: Peter S. Beagle
3.78
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more
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"Fear cannot breed where there is action."-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
9. Fantastic Four, Vol. 1: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four?
By: Ryan North
3.95
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The World's Greatest Comic Magazine gets a fresh start with superstar writer Ryan North! Whateve… read more
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10. Trust Exercise
By: Susan Choi
3.14
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high sch… read more
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"Neither can drive."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
11. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
4.51
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more
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12. Are You Listening?
By: Tillie Walden
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more
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"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
13. The Liminal Zone (Junji Ito)
By: Junji Ito
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
What destiny awaits them after the screaming? After abruptly departing from a train in a small t… read more
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14. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
15. Lunar New Year Love Story
By: Gene Luen Yang
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more
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16. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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17. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
By: James Tynion IV
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more
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"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
18. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
By: Julia Wertz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more
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"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
19. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
20. Northwoods
By: Amy Pease
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more
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"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"-Amy Pease, Northwoods
21. The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy, #2)
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
4.29
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys… read more
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22. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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23. Just as You Are
By: Camille Kellogg
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Equal parts witty and steamy, this debut rom-com brings a healthy dose of queerness and a whole lot… read more
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24. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
By: Diane Seuss
4.41
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry… read more
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25. X-Men, Vol. 5
By: Gerry Duggan
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What will the events of FALL OF X mean for the X-Men? She’s been known as Kitty Pryde, Sprite, A… read more
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26. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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27. Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession
By: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A humorous graphic investigation of the author's obsession with true crime, the murders that have m… read more
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28. I Was a Teenage Slasher
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.68
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more
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29. Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin Poets)
By: Adrian Matejka
3.78
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke , a finalist for… read more
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30. Book of Gods & Grudges
By: Jessica L. Walsh
4.60
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Jessica Walsh's Book of Gods and Grudges tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She… read more
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31. Exploding Head
By: Cynthia Marie Hoffman
4.50
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A vivid memoir-in-prose-poems about life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) from Cynthia Mari… read more
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