Pigs
By: Johanna Stoberock
3.66
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash ar…
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1. Woman at Point Zero
By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata
4.19
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
2. 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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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
3. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
4. Made for Love
By: Alissa Nutting
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane--his extreme… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
- adult
5. Almost Transparent Blue
By: Ryū Murakami , Nancy Andrew
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American… read more
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6. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
7. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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8. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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9. El asesino hipocondríaco
By: Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel
0.00
Format: None pages, ebook
El senor Y. debe cumplir su ultimo encargo como asesino profesional, pero para conseguirlo tendra q… read more
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10. Hild
By: Nicola Griffith
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, us… read more
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11. Maeve Fly
By: C.J. Leede
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
12. The Dry Heart
By: Natalia Ginzburg
4.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
13. Sacrificios humanos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
María Fernanda Ampuero se ha convertido en una de las voces indispensables de la literatura latinoa… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
14. The Memory Police
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.72
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"No one can erase the stories!"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"Few people here have any need of novels"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
15. Alice Isn't Dead
By: Joseph Fink
3.62
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a tru… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"The only way to be brave is to first be afraid."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"Inside she would be a vessel of fluids and mourning."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
"The stories of old women are the quiet, overlooked fabric of history."-Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
16. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
17. Black Tide
By: K.C. Jones
3.59
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day a… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction."-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?"-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me."-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
"My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's…"-K.C. Jones, Black Tide
18. The Laws of the Skies
By: Grégoire Courtois
3.39
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
19. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.14
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
20. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
By: Madeline Pendleton
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
21. Rave
By: Jessica Campbell
3.65
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A queer coming-of-age story, complete with secret cigarettes, gross gym teachers, and a lot of chur… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
22. Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
23. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
24. The Appalachian Trail: A Biography
By: Philip D'Anieri
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it ev… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
25. Sharks in the Time of Saviors
By: Kawai Strong Washburn
3.83
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboar… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Big destiny is a thing you get drunk on."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
"Hope can be a god as well. It's something that can be prayed to."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
"Everyone's always 'just joking,' right? Except when they're not."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
"Sometimes I don't know if the fight finds me or I find the fight. Especially with my family."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
26. Violets
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.60
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a gir… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets
27. Mem
By: Bethany C. Morrow
3.62
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: … read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
28. The World Cannot Give
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How far would you go after finding something–or someone–worthy of devotion?... Don't miss the no… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
29. We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories
By: C. Robert Cargill
3.61
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Sea of Rust and Queen of the Dark Things comes a hair-raisi… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
30. My Volcano
By: John Elizabeth Stintzi
3.54
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock is spotted by a jogger growing from the Central Park Reservoi… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"His Farsi laden with a mat of nostalgia"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"And so here - after then, and after that - we are"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"In his little apartment, alone, Ash set his cocktail of alarms"-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
"On that page, they began to write a new book - a book without research. A book about a mountain. A volcano . Their volcano."-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
31. Pigs
By: Johanna Stoberock
3.66
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash ar… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- dystopia
- fiction
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- fantasy
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