Death and Other Holidays
By: Marci Vogel
3.63
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The 2017 Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize winner, this debut fiction introduces a distinctive new Ame…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Libby's been lecturing me, she claims seawater is the surest antidote for heartbreak. 'It's the salt. Makes up for all the crying."-Marci Vogel, Death and Other Holidays
"Libby's been lecturing me, she claims seawater is the surest antidote for heartbreak. 'It's the salt. Makes up for all the crying."-Marci Vogel, Death and Other Holidays
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1. Fox 8
By: George Saunders
4.12
Format: 21 pages, ebook
A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the enviro… read more
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- adult fiction
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Now all these happy sites and sounds seem like triks. Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping."-George Saunders, Fox 8
"You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as b…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. T…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on you…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
2. The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)
By: Guillermo del Toro , Chuck Hogan
4.09
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All w… read more
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3. The Fall (The Strain Trilogy, #2)
By: Guillermo del Toro , Chuck Hogan
4.43
Format: 303 pages,
The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the… read more
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4. Friday Brown
By: Vikki Wakefield
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
I am Friday Brown. I buried my mother. My grandfather buried a swimming pool. A boy who can't speak… read more
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5. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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6. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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7. Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
By: David Whyte
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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8. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
By: Sigrid Nunez
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure kno… read more
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9. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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10. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
11. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
12. Fox & I
By: Catherine Raven
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more
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"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
13. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
By: Eric LaRocca
2.96
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s
By: Gary Gulman
4.14
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more
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15. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
16. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
17. One Hundred Days
By: Alice Pung
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
18. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
19. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
By: Geena Davis
4.04
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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20. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more
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- fiction
21. The Faces
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.92
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces
22. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
23. Sing to It: New Stories
By: Amy Hempel
3.64
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKER AWARD ONE OF TIME ’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S BEST … read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
24. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
25. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
By: Katya Apekina
4.08
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up …"-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
26. American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
By: America Ferrera
4.33
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipi… read more
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- short stories
27. Something to Do with Paying Attention (McNally Editions)
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel—some 1,100 pages of … read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
"He made a gesture I can't describe: 'Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth --actual h…"-David Foster Wallace, Something to Do with Paying Attention (McNally Editions)
28. The Cheater's Guide to Love
By: Junot Díaz
3.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- american
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Death and Other Holidays
By: Marci Vogel
3.63
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The 2017 Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize winner, this debut fiction introduces a distinctive new Ame… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- american
- poetry
- relationships
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"Libby's been lecturing me, she claims seawater is the surest antidote for heartbreak. 'It's the salt. Makes up for all the crying."-Marci Vogel, Death and Other Holidays
31. Permafrost
By: Eva Baltasar
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
El permafrost es esa capa de la tierra permanentemente congelada y es también la membrana que cubre… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost
"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost
"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost
