We're Safe When We're Alone (NVLA)
By: Nghiem Tran
3.67
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Son is real. Son was saved from a life he cannot remember. Son is a human in a mythical world of gh…
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1. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attac… read more
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- literary fiction
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"I remembered my mother’s insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked down by a car on the way to or from school and I and the family would be disgraced even beyond the g…"-James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
2. Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more
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3. Nefando
By: Mónica Ojeda
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nefando, Viaje a las entranas de una habitacion, fue un videojuego en linea poco conocido y pronto … read more
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- fiction
- horror
4. Feed Them Silence
By: Lee Mandelo
3.52
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
5. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
6. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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7. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
8. 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
- fiction
9. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
10. Your Shadow Half Remains
By: Sunny Moraine
3.38
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more
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- fiction
- horror
11. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
"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
12. A palavra que resta
By: Stênio Gardel
4.05
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
13. River Mumma
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
14. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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- literary fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- horror
15. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
16. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
17. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
18. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
19. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
20. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
21. In Universes
By: Emet North
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
22. The Forest Brims Over
By: Maru Ayase
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husban… read more
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- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
23. A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more
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24. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
By: Julian K. Jarboe
3.93
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
25. Ædnan
By: Linnea Axelsson
4.23
Format: 762 pages, Hardcover
Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
26. Temporary
By: Hilary Leichter
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre pl… read more
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- literary fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Living is also a state of mourning."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
"Life is a stranger in a crowd whose intentions are unclear and, come to think of it, so is death."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
27. The Devil of the Provinces
By: Juan Cárdenas
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. B… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
28. The Last Language
By: Jennifer duBois
3.74
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
From Jennifer duBois, “one of a handful of living American novelists who can comprehend both the lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
29. The Plotinus
By: Rikki Ducornet
3.87
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Upon setting out for a morning walk with his knobby stick in hand, a young man is arrested by a rob… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
30. Cecilia
By: K-Ming Chang
3.32
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
31. We're Safe When We're Alone (NVLA)
By: Nghiem Tran
3.67
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Son is real. Son was saved from a life he cannot remember. Son is a human in a mythical world of gh… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
