Unexpected Vanilla
By: Lee Hyemi
3.47
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 1911284509 / 9781911284505 A sensual, surrealist collection by…
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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- poetry
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
3. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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- lgbt
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
4. Panty
By: Arunava Sinha , Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Darkly glamorous and fiercely erotic heroines take centre stage in these two novellas. In Panty, wh… read more
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5. Journey by Moonlight
By: Len Rix , Antal Szerb
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag)is the f… read more
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6. Sergius Mencari Bacchus: 33 Puisi
By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Ia belum tahu bahwa pasca-pintu ia berhak menyebut hidupnya hidup Dan ia tak perlu lagi menabung um… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
7. Wizard of the Crow
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel t… read more
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8. Child of Fortune
By: Yūko Tsushima , Geraldine Harcourt
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
By conventional Japanese standards, Koko Mizuno is an abysmal failure as woman, wife, and mother--a… read more
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9. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
10. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- lgbt
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
11. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
12. Love in the Big City
By: Sang Young Park
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more
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- lgbt
"I like the universe that is you"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
13. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
14. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
15. Beast at Every Threshold
By: Natalie Wee
3.74
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultura… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
16. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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- poetry
17. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
18. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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19. Where the Wild Ladies Are
By: Aoko Matsuda
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, hu… read more
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"He who speaks of love must do so with courage."-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"When they are truly into something, they are absolutely single-minded in their fixation. They give it all they have. They throw heaps of money at it, research it endlessly, and do whatever seems nece…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"How unfair society was! Male employees had to pretend to be capable of doing things they couldn't do, while female employees had to pretend to be incapable of doing things they actually could do. Ove…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
"Previously she'd lacked confidence and was forever putting out feelers to the people around her to gauge what they were thinking, but these days she gave out an almost authoritative aura, as if to si…"-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
20. People From My Neighbourhood
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.53
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more
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"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
21. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
22. Violets
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.60
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a gir… read more
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- lgbt
"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets
23. Closer Baby Closer
By: Savannah Brown
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more
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- lgbt
24. Untold Night and Day
By: Bae Suah
3.49
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more
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"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
25. Stay with My Heart
By: Tashie Bhuiyan
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Counting Down with You and A Show for Two comes a new YA contemporary about a … read more
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26. Blood Sisters
By: Kim Yideum
3.59
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Blood Sisters tells the story of Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student in the 1980's, when th… read more
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- lgbt
"Someone once told me that the book on someone's bedside table reveals a lot about the person -- their tastes, but also the mental space they are in. Perhaps Jihyun -- based on this song -- is dreamin…"-Kim Yideum, Blood Sisters
27. Toward Eternity
By: Anton Hur
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more
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- lgbt
28. Avant de partir
By: Mijin Jung
4.06
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Un jeune homme essuie les verres dans un bar qui ferme. La lumière est douce, le lieu calme. Entre … read more
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29. Unexpected Vanilla
By: Lee Hyemi
3.47
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 1911284509 / 9781911284505 A sensual, surrealist collection by… read more
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30. One Hundred Shadows
By: Hwang Jungeun
3.58
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this und… read more
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"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
31. Catcalling
By: Lee Soho
3.68
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Lee Soho’s debut collection of poems is an experimental lyric bildungsroman that confronts dynamics… read more
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