Trigger Warning
By: Maria Takolander
4.09
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic vi…
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1. Geekerella
By: Ashley Poston
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Anything can happen once upon a con... When geek girl Elle Wittimer sees a cosplay contest sponsore… read more
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2. The Mother of All Questions
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this follow-up to Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers commentary on women who refuse… read more
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3. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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4. We Had to Remove This Post
By: Hanna Bervoets
2.93
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more
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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
5. The Murder Rule
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.67
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more
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"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule
6. The Labyrinth
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more
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"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
7. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
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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"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. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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10. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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11. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
12. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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13. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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14. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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15. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
16. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
17. Dirt Creek
By: Hayley Scrivenor
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more
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18. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
19. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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20. After Story
By: Larissa Behrendt
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more
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21. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)
By: Jane Harper
4.05
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more
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22. Mona
By: Pola Oloixarac
3.30
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixara… read more
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"There was a niche sort of glamour to it, like being a rare specimen of an endangered species—as though her myste- rious DNA were a tiara encrusted with rare pearls, and the universities each a mas- s…"-Pola Oloixarac, Mona
23. Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more
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"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
24. The Lost Man
By: Jane Harper
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more
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"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
25. Throat
By: Ellen Van Neerven
4.22
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where blo… read more
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26. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
By: Gail Crowther
3.80
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—… read more
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"Perhaps the sadness here is that Plath and Sexton somehow could not quite gather the strength to truly believe in their self-worth, and in the end neither gave themselves time to."-Gail Crowther, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
27. Mammoth
By: Chris Flynn
3.75
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how … read more
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"I wonder if you ever knew love, if the stirrings of indelible attraction caused tumult in your soul."-Chris Flynn, Mammoth
28. The Heartbreak Bakery
By: A.R. Capetta
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post… read more
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"They hand me one lemon, then another, and all I can think when their fingertips leave is that we're mixing ourselves together. That's what happens when skin presses skin. We think of ourselves as sol…"-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery
"But it does seem like I’m always the one who has to speak up and tell everyone how I’m different. I have to find a way to help them understand me, even though I don’t really understand them either. H…"-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery
29. Digging Up Dirt (Poppy McGowan Mysteries, #1)
By: Pamela Hart
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Renovations are hell. And that's before you find the body beneath the floorboards. An intriguing my… read more
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30. Trigger Warning
By: Maria Takolander
4.09
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic vi… read more
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31. Paradise (point of transmission)
By: Andrew Sutherland
4.15
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Paradise (point of transmission) is a collection of poetry that place themselves within a sequence … read more
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