The Wrong Heaven
By: Amy Bonnaffons
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"In her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes about transformation, each stor…
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1. D'après une histoire vraie
By: Delphine de Vigan
3.94
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
"Ce livre est le récit de ma rencontre avec L. L. est le cauchemar de tout écrivain. Ou plutôt le g… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Toda escrita de si é um romance. A narrativa é uma ilusão."-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie
"... de certains mots, de certains regards on ne guérit pas. Malgré le temps passé, malgré la douceur d'autres mots et d'autres regards."-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie
"L'idée de la campagne était pour moi synonyme d'isolement, contenait une notion inhérente de danger. La Campagne était associée à la peur et à une certaine idée d'enfermement."-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie
"L'écriture doit être une recherche de vérité, sinon elle n'est rien. Si à travers l'écriture tu ne cherches pas à te connaitre, à fouiller ce qui t'habite, ce qui te constitue, à rouvrir tes blessure…"-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie
2. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- short stories
- adult
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
3. Happy All the Time
By: Laurie Colwin
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming… read more
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- humor
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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5. The Adult
By: Bronwyn Fischer
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance. In the wet grass… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
6. 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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- feminism
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
7. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- humor
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
8. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
9. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
10. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- fiction
11. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
12. Death of a Bookseller
By: Alice Slater
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
14. 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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- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
"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
15. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
16. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- adult
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
17. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
18. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
19. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
20. The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
By: Donna Freitas
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother—and the many ways t… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"My love for Addie is terrifying, a perpetual state of vertigo, an ongoing condition of living on the edge of an abyss."-Donna Freitas, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
21. A Touch of Jen
By: Beth Morgan
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more
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- humor
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen
22. Bless Your Heart (Bless Your Heart, #1)
By: Lindy Ryan
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It’s 1999 in Southeast Texas and the E… read more
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- humor
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
23. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
24. All Grown Up
By: Jami Attenberg
3.39
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer."-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up
"I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about b…"-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up
"But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and…"-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up
"Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, b…"-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up
25. Lucky Red
By: Claudia Cravens
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more
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- adult
- fiction
26. Girlfriend on Mars
By: Deborah Willis
3.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
27. One of the Good Guys
By: Araminta Hall
3.52
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
28. So Thirsty
By: Rachel Harrison
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
29. The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
By: Alisha Rai
3.64
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Alisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival d… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"My sister, she’s one tough bitch. That’s what I tell my friends."-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
"I am not easy to hurt. I am a stone cold bitch when it comes to men. No rose-colored glasses here."-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
"A woman with a hair bow that jaunty she's a fighter." He mulled that over. "You think pepper spray would work on zombies and ghouls?" "Open membranes are open membranes, son"-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
"Trust is the only reason the world ever functions as it should. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't, and I know that uncertainty is scary, but that's the only way you figure out who your …"-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
30. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
31. The Wrong Heaven
By: Amy Bonnaffons
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"In her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes about transformation, each stor… read more
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- magical realism
- short story collection
- the united states of america
- feminism
- humor
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
