Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
By: Edith Hall
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused…
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1. Ghost Story
By: Peter Straub
4.09
Format: 372 pages,
In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more
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2. poyums
By: Len Pennie
4.58
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. 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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- audiobook
- contemporary
4. The Liminal Zone (Junji Ito)
By: Junji Ito
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
What destiny awaits them after the screaming? After abruptly departing from a train in a small t… read more
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5. The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
By: Mokumokuren
4.33
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
It has Hikaru’s face. It has Hikaru’s voice. It even has Hikaru’s memories. But whatever came down … read more
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6. Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
By: Alistair Moffat
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
While Scotland’s history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints, and warriors, there… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Remina
By: Junji Ito
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I MET REMINA'S EYE. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Og… read more
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8. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"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
9. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Night Side of the River
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more
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- audiobook
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
11. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
12. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
13. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
14. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
15. Venus in the Blind Spot
By: Junji Ito
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito’s career, featuring … read more
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"A fiendish love... an unearthly love... those who feel such a love are numbed to their very souls by this mysterious pleasure while they struggle with endless frustration, censured by the pangs of co…"-Junji Ito, Venus in the Blind Spot
16. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
17. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
18. Three Fires
By: Denise Mina
3.73
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more
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- audiobook
19. You Get What You Pay For: Essays
By: Morgan Parker
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
By: Zachary Zane
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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- contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
22. Must I Go
By: Yiyun Li
3.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of sev… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
23. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
24. The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared
By: Randall Sullivan
3.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Part true crime story, part historical account, part religious and literary analysis, an investigat… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Graveyard Shift
By: M.L. Rio
3.49
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more
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- audiobook
26. An Academy for Liars
By: Alexis Henderson
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning … read more
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27. Babylonia
By: Costanza Casati
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient h… read more
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28. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
29. The Palace of Eros
By: Caro De Robertis
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her temp… read more
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30. Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
By: Edith Hall
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused… read more
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- memoir
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
