A Seat at the Table: Interviews with Women on the Frontline of Music
By: Amy Raphael
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, …
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1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
By: Carrie Brownstein
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more
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- music
- feminism
- nonfiction
"I've always felt unclaimed."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
2. 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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- nonfiction
- essays
"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
3. NOS4A2
By: Joe Hill
4.08
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more
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"Everyone lives in two worlds,"-Joe Hill, NOS4A2
"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."-Joe Hill, NOS4A2
"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."-Joe Hill, NOS4A2
"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."-Joe Hill, NOS4A2
4. Alan Partridge: Nomad
By: Steve Coogan , Alan Partridge , Rob Gibbons , Neil Gibbons
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
In Alan Partridge: Nomad, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey thro… read more
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5. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
6. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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7. She and Her Cat
By: Makoto Shinkai , Tsubasa Yamaguchi
3.69
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
“It was the start of spring. It was raining. That was the day that she brought me home.” This is… read more
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"Let's go home together."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"The only one waiting at home for me is my cat!"-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"And then after that long, long phone call, she wept."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"When she came home, she smelled the way I like. But . . . her face seemed sadder than when she left."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
8. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
9. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
10. Meantime
By: Frankie Boyle
3.54
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more
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11. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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- music
"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
12. Songs in Ursa Major
By: Emma Brodie
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Tall and sof… read more
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- music
13. Rosewater
By: Liv Little
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more
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14. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
15. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
16. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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17. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
18. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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- feminism
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
19. The Henna Wars
By: Adiba Jaigirdar
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls … read more
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""-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"Nishat can be anything she wants to be, exept herself."-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"It’s not something that happens, Ammu. It’s something I am."-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?"-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
20. Rainbow Milk
By: Paul Mendez
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more
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21. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
22. Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more
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"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
23. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
24. Metronome
By: Tom Watson
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, striking debut by an award-winning author for fans of Emma Stonex, Francine Toon and Mega… read more
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25. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
26. Exciting Times
By: Naoise Dolan
3.23
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more
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"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
27. Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
By: Temi Oh
3.65
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, … read more
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"Plenus annis abiit, plenus honoribus,"-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
"In the darkness, every fear finds a face."-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
"Loving anything is bound to the pain of losing it."-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
"What would you die for? Willingly die for? I’d probably say nothing at all."-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
28. Hungry
By: Grace Dent
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more
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- nonfiction
"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"-Grace Dent, Hungry
29. Insatiable
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend; Violet's life is… read more
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30. A Seat at the Table: Interviews with Women on the Frontline of Music
By: Amy Raphael
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, … read more
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- music
- cultural
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
