Savage Tongues
By: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A luxuriant fevered quest for reclamation...Political, poetical, and spooky good.” — Joy Williams …
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1. A Separation
By: Katie Kitamura
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A yo… read more
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- adult fiction
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- fiction
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2. The Tell–Tale Brain – A Neuroscientist`s Quest for What Makes Us Human
By: V.S. Ramachandran
3.86
Format: 302 pages,
Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented … read more
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3. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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- literary fiction
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
4. Fox & I
By: Catherine Raven
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more
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"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
5. Identitti
By: Mithu M. Sanyal
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Was für ein Skandal: Prof. Dr. Saraswati ist WEISS! Schlimmer geht es nicht. Denn die Professorin f… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
6. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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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
7. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- literary fiction
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8. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
9. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
10. The Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
11. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
12. Intimacies
By: Katie Kitamura
3.65
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
13. Leonard and Hungry Paul
By: Ronan Hession
4.15
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In this startling debut, Ronan Hession tells the story of two thirty-something men who take care of… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"You may wish to note the above"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"It was strange that after all the years of getting the kids to be independent, she would feel so daunted at having her life back. But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids' lives are their ow…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he rea…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
14. A Touch of Jen
By: Beth Morgan
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
15. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
3.98
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more
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- fiction
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
16. Whoever You Are, Honey
By: Olivia Gatwood
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more
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17. Rejection: Fiction
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more
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- fiction
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction
18. Tehrangeles
By: Porochista Khakpour
3.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more
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19. Blue Light Hours
By: Bruna Dantas Lobato
4.08
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Electric Literature’s “75 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024” From the National Book… read more
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20. Savage Tongues
By: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A luxuriant fevered quest for reclamation...Political, poetical, and spooky good.” — Joy Williams … read more
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21. The Goodbye Process: Stories
By: Mary Jones
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A USA Today Bestseller “Short story fans might just discover their new favorite author in this a… read more
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