Theory
By: Dionne Brand
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision …
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- literary fiction
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. Song
By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent fo… read more
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4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- queer
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5. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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- fiction
6. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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- queer
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7. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- queer
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8. Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
By: Kelly Sue DeConnick , Robert Wilson IV , Valentine De Landro
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Eisner Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De … read more
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- fiction
9. Headwaters: Poems
By: Ellen Bryant Voigt
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwatersis a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by on… read more
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10. Corregidora
By: Gayl Jones
3.88
Format: 144 pages,
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the ni… read more
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11. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
By: Alan Sillitoe
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with… read more
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12. House of Leaves
By: Mark Z. Danielewski
4.09
Format: 710 pages, Paperback
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more
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- novels
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"I must read. I must read. I must read."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
13. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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14. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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15. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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16. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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17. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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18. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
By: Thomas King
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist … read more
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19. 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
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- contemporary
- queer
20. 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
- canada
"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)
21. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
22. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- canada
23. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- canada
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24. Cold
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more
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25. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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26. I Fear My Pain Interests You
By: Stephanie LaCava
2.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more
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27. Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
By: Ashley Mears
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of model… read more
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28. 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
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"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
29. Theory
By: Dionne Brand
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision … read more
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- literary fiction
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30. The Lost Tarot
By: Sarah Henstra
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A lost tarot card is the key to unravelling decades of secrets in this dazzling novel about art and… read more
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- fiction
- canada
31. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more
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- novels
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"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
