Acting Out / chem & other poems
By: Peter Scalpello
4.30
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
2. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
By: Emily Dickinson
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
3. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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5. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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6. Primeval and Other Times
By: Olga Tokarczuk , Antonia Lloyd-Jones
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Timeswas awarded the Koscielski Foundation Prize in 199… read more
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7. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
8. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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9. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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10. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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11. Madness
By: Sam Sax
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Ser… read more
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12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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13. The Discomfort of Evening
By: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
3.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
I thought about being too small for so much, but that no one told you when you were big enough ... … read more
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"In de nacht is iedereen leeftijdsloos."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"We can't simply swap God - he's the strongest Pokémon card we have."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"Onze dagen zullen verlengd worden, net zoals we boeken uit de bibliotheek verlengen om er langer in te kunnen verdwalen zonder kans te maken op een geldboete."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"En nu, doordat ik door mijn wimpers keek had ik ook het idee dat moeder en de veearts niet doorhadden dat ik meeluisterde, dat ik in gedachten de trekken rondom moeders mond en ogen uit kon gummen om…"-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
14. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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15. Qui a tué mon père
By: Édouard Louis
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more
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"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
16. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
17. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
18. Heaven
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.80
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more
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"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
19. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
20. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
21. Exteriors
By: Annie Ernaux
3.57
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more
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22. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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23. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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24. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
25. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
26. Rest and Be Thankful
By: Emma Glass
3.52
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more
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"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
27. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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28. Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust
By: Eimear McBride
3.37
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
In her blistering non-fiction debut, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and… read more
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"Od hipisowskiego ideału 'wolnej miłości', zakazującego kobietom używania słowa 'nie', po świeższe zabiegi przemycania niszowych praktyk BDSM do seksualnego mainstreamu, żadna kobieta - może z wyjątki…"-Eimear McBride, Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust
29. Never Was
By: H. Gareth Gavin
3.84
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Part hallucination, part queer bildungsroman, Never Was is a beautifully strange novel about grief,… read more
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30. Acting Out / chem & other poems
By: Peter Scalpello
4.30
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Acting Out and chem & other poems are two remarkable pamphlets joined together in one beautiful col… read more
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31. Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery
By: Chloe Aridjis
4.05
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridj… read more
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