Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes
By: Kathleen Alcalá
3.47
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Set in northern Mexico in the 1870s, Spirits of the Ordinary tells interweaving stories centered on…
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1. Geek Love
By: Katherine Dunn
3.95
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more
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- novels
- fantasy
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"You must have wished a million times to be normal."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
2. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
3. The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1)
By: Seth Dickinson
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
The Traitor Baru Cormorantis an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman's mission to tear down an… read more
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- fantasy
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4. The Historian
By: Elizabeth Kostova
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition for To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, e… read more
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5. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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6. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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7. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)
By: Rebecca Thorne
3.82
Format: 388 pages, ebook
All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
8. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)
By: Emma R. Alban
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
10. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
11. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
By: Arkady Martine
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"I thought you hated them,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
12. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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- fiction
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
13. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
14. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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- historical
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
16. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)
By: Nghi Vo
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more
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- fantasy
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17. Rogue Justice (Avery Keene, #2)
By: Stacey Abrams
4.02
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took… read more
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18. The Butcher of the Forest
By: Premee Mohamed
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more
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19. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
By: A. Deborah Baker
3.69
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more
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- fantasy
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"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
20. Even Greater Mistakes: Stories
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and … read more
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- fantasy
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"Books are the best way to discover what people thought before you were born."-Charlie Jane Anders, Even Greater Mistakes: Stories
21. Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes
By: Kathleen Alcalá
3.47
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Set in northern Mexico in the 1870s, Spirits of the Ordinary tells interweaving stories centered on… read more
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