Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
By: Joe Meno
4.00
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Aleksandar and Isobel are siblings and former classical music prodigies, once destined for greatnes…
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1. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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- literary fiction
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2. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
3. Ghosts
By: César Aira , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 575 pages, Paperback
"On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregul… read more
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4. 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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5. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
6. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
7. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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- contemporary
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
8. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
By: Jane Alison
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more
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"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
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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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
"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. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
11. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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12. The Sun Walks Down
By: Fiona McFarlane
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
13. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
14. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
16. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- fiction
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"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
17. Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.71
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
18. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- music
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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20. 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Marguerite, a beautiful woman, has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But is foul… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Inhabiting a female body is such a feat for me, like squeezing into a costume that includes a perfectly fitted face mask through which it is quite a feat to breathe..."-Joyce Carol Oates, 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
21. The Thing in the Snow
By: Sean Adams
3.34
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel—equal p… read more
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22. The Guest Lecture
By: Martin Riker
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more
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23. Factory Girls
By: Michelle Gallen
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
24. One's Company
By: Ashley Hutson
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read… read more
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"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"-Ashley Hutson, One's Company
25. The Sea Elephants
By: Shastri Akella
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a you… read more
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- coming of age
- literary fiction
- fiction
"He sat down on the porch, chuckling, and I wanted to be that sound in his throat, to be that decibel that corresponded so precisely to his pleasure."-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
"Once upon a time, the gods took away the first ancestor of the sea elephants, coveting him for his exceptional beauty— tusks blue, body ivory. The trauma of that original separation haunts every sea …"-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
"Time...is a rocking horse. When Krishna was a child, he pulled its ear, released it, and walked away, laughing. It creaked, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Noisy nonstop. We worship K…"-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
26. The One
By: Julia Argy
3.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp and seductively hypnotic debut novel about the very fantasy of falling in love. Emil… read more
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27. The Funeral Cryer
By: Wenyan Lu
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s mid-life reawake… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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28. Eleutheria
By: Allegra Hyde
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A story of idealism, activism, and systemic corruption, centered on a naïve young woman’s quest for… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
29. Concrete Kids (Pocket Change Collective)
By: Amyra Leon
4.39
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Concrete Kids, playwright, musician, and educator Amyra León uses free verse to challenge us to… read more
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- contemporary
30. All the Things We Don't Talk About
By: Amy Feltman
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, h… read more
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- family
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31. Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
By: Joe Meno
4.00
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Aleksandar and Isobel are siblings and former classical music prodigies, once destined for greatnes… read more
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