The Other Woman
By: Rona Jaffe
3.56
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The Other Woman [hardcover] Rona Jaffe [Sep 01, 1972] …
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- classics
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. A Book of Common Prayer
By: Joan Didion , None
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our mo… read more
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- fiction
"I think I have never known anyone who led quite unexamined a life."-Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
"I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos."-Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
3. The People We Hate at the Wedding
By: Grant Ginder
2.85
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
The People We Hate at the Wedding is now a major motion picture starring Kristen Bell, Allison Jann… read more
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- fiction
4. Euphoria
By: Lily King
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world. In 1933 three yo… read more
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- fiction
5. Father of the Rain
By: Lily King
3.71
Format: None pages,
Award-winning author Lily King's Father of the Rain: spans three decades in a riveting psychologica… read more
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- fiction
6. A Good School
By: Richard Yates
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside s… read more
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7. American Housewife
By: Helen Ellis
3.91
Format: 144 pages, ebook
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, A… read more
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8. Eileen
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more
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9. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.37
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more
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- classics
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
10. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- fiction
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
11. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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- fiction
12. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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- fiction
"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
13. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- fiction
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
14. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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- fiction
15. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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- fiction
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
16. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
17. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
18. Recipe for a Perfect Wife
By: Karma Brown
3.68
Format: 336 pages, ebook
In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left… read more
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- fiction
"the hardest question we have to ask ourselves in this life is, "Who am I?" Ideally, we answer it for ourselves, but be warned that others will strive to do it for you- so don't let them."-Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife
"Even in pain, Nellie understood her role - the wife who bowed to her husband, who apologized for things out of her control, who made his life easier even if it made hers harder. The perfect wife."-Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife
"But no matter what, you should never marry someone unless you believe you'll die- one way or another- without that person. They should feel more important to you than oxygen. Otherwise you'll suffoca…"-Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife
"Alice made a simple supper of Welsh rarebit (toast points smothered in a sauce of cheddar, cream, dry mustard, and spices) with tomato slices, from Nellie's cookbook, and barbecued sausages, along wi…"-Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife
19. Happy Hour
By: Marlowe Granados
3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more
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- fiction
"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
20. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- classics
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
21. I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
By: Rachel Bloom
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, and Amy Poehler, a collection of hilarious personal essays, … read more
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22. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more
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23. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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- fiction
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
24. All's Well
By: Mona Awad
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more
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- fiction
"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
25. 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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- fiction
"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
26. The Prettiest Star
By: Carter Sickels
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his fami… read more
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- fiction
27. When I'm Dead (Black Harbor, #3)
By: Hannah Morrissey
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One girl murdered. Another one missing. And a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth in th… read more
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- fiction
28. The Great Believers
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chic… read more
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- fiction
"Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?"-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin"-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world."-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"And when you came here from Heaven, you left the door open so he could go out."-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
29. Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.52
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author From literar… read more
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30. The Other Woman
By: Rona Jaffe
3.56
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The Other Woman [hardcover] Rona Jaffe [Sep 01, 1972] … read more
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31. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
By: Lisa Marie Presley
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more
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