The Scapegoat
By: Sara Davis
3.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing postmodern debut novel, The Scapegoatis a propulsive and destabilizing literary myste…
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1. The Grip of It
By: Jac Jemc
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
2. Ill Will
By: Dan Chaon
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Two sensational unsolved crimes--one in the past, another in the present--are linked by one man's m… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
3. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
By: Mary Roach
4.36
Format: 352 pages,
"Equal parts Groucho Marx & Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening & entertaining."--Sunday Denver Po… read more
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4. I Am in Here: The Journey of a Child with Autism Who Cannot Speak But Finds Her Voice
By: Elizabeth M. Bonker , None
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
She looked into my eyes and blinked hers slowly and deliberately, like a stroke victim, to show me … read more
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5. Angels
By: Denis Johnson
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Adazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie h… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
6. The Ghost Network
By: Catie Disabato
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Rowell's Fangirlfor adults, written with a penchant for old maps and undocumented 15th cent… read more
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7. Long Live the Post Horn!
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.67
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"A letter is practically a gift."-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
8. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
9. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Y/N
By: Esther Yi
2.95
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- novels
- adult
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."-Esther Yi, Y/N
"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
11. The Odyssey
By: Lara Williams
3.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- novels
- adult
"I guess it should have made me more protective of myself or something. More cautious with what I give away. But I actually do the opposite. Give people more than what they ask for. To get it over wit…"-Lara Williams, The Odyssey
12. Sisters
By: Daisy Johnson
3.48
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: … read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- adult
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Settembre è la persona che avrei sempre voluto essere. Io sono una forma ritagliata dall'universo, trapunta di stelle che continuano a morire - e lei è la creatura che riempie il vuoto che io lascio …"-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
13. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
14. Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
15. The Strange
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more
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- fiction
- horror
16. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Wild Spaces
By: S.L. Coney
3.51
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces
18. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
By: Blythe Roberson
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read abou… read more
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"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
19. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
20. The Scandal
By: Nicola Marsh
3.95
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
My life is like one of those cheap snow globes my twins collected when they were younger. Shiny and… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
21. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- adult
22. Who They Was
By: Gabriel Krauze
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the univ… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"It's a terrible thing trying to love someone who can't teach you anything."-Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was
23. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
By: Joy Harjo
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more
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- adult
"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir
24. Shark Heart
By: Emily Habeck
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
25. The Night Guest
By: Hildur Knútsdóttir
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
26. Oh Honey
By: Emily R. Austin
3.92
Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition
“Hello, my name is Esther. I am calling on behalf of Krippler Incorporated, a market research insti… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
"As it turns out, my acceptance of the heroin addict’s invitation to party may have been a case of poor judgement."-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
"She is deluded enough to assume that I could feel romantically for a person with a badly drawn dog tattooed to their arm."-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
"I have to share a room. I am expected to sleep mere meters from a woman whose mental ailment is unknown to me. For all I know she might be a cannibal."-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
"Her teeth and lips are tinted purple from the Kool-Aid. Mine are probably purple too, but I can’t see them. You can’t see your own face from within it. This is something I have always struggled with"-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
27. Wake the Bones
By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne
3.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil … read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
28. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- horror
- adult
29. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
30. The Scapegoat
By: Sara Davis
3.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing postmodern debut novel, The Scapegoatis a propulsive and destabilizing literary myste… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- thriller
- novels
- adult
- mystery
31. The Queen
By: Nick Cutter
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The national bestselling author of #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- adult
