The Book of Disbelieving
By: David Lawrence Morse
3.85
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The nine stories in The Book of Disbelieving open portals to fabulist worlds and magical objects: a…
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1. La perra
By: Pilar Quintana
3.85
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Una conmovedora novela de Pilar Quintana. Damaris, una mujer del Pacífico entrada en la madurez … read more
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- fiction
"Así que eso era matar. Damaris pensó que no era difícil ni tomaba demasiado tiempo."-Pilar Quintana, La perra
"Quiso huir, perderse, no decirle nada a nadie y que la selva se la tragara. Empezó a correr, se tropezó, cayó, se levantó y volvió a correr."-Pilar Quintana, La perra
"Damaris pensó que seguro querrían mucho a la chachorra, pues ellos tampoco tenían hijos, y se preguntó si sería eso lo que los mantenía unidos."-Pilar Quintana, La perra
"Él quería comprarse un nuevo trasmallo y un equipo de sonido grande con cuatro parlantes, pero Damaris llevaba un tiempo pensando cómo decirle que ella no había dejado de desear un hijo"-Pilar Quintana, La perra
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
"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. The Angel Esmeralda
By: Don DeLillo
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time, a collection of short stories, written between 1979 a… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease."-Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda
"Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer día apenas llegué a mirar. Creía estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mi…"-Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda
4. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more
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- short stories
- magical realism
- fiction
5. Safe as Houses
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are s… read more
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6. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
By: Riad Sattouf
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's … read more
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7. 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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- adult fiction
- short stories
- magical realism
- 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
8. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- magical realism
- anthologies
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
9. 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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- 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
10. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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- fiction
11. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
12. 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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- speculative fiction
- short stories
- magical realism
- fiction
"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
13. Carcoma
By: Layla Martínez
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more
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- fiction
"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."-Layla Martínez, Carcoma
14. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- fiction
15. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- fiction
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
16. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- fiction
17. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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18. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
19. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
20. 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
- short stories
- anthologies
"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
21. The Bear
By: Andrew Krivak
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last t… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
"Sleep is the only balm I know."-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"But we don't get to choose when we leave here to sleep on the mountain. We all have to sleep on the mountain one day. Even the bear. Even when we struggle with all our will not to."-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"Her father told her once that all animals were creatures of habit and so, too, were they. The difference was she could choose to change her habits. Animals changed when they were afraid. Change befor…"-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"Imagine it from here everything you say in front of you — lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon — was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean look…"-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
22. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
23. The Book of Love
By: Kelly Link
3.50
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
24. Green Frog: Stories
By: Gina Chung
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more
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- adult fiction
- magical realism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
25. Linghun
By: Ai Jiang
3.96
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."-Ai Jiang, Linghun
"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"-Ai Jiang, Linghun
26. 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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- adult fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- fiction
27. Tell Me How to Be
By: Neel Patel
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
28. Thrust
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
3.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins--vulnerable h… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fiction
"Memory is proof that imagination is a real place."-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust
"Women have been outsmarting their counter-genders since the dawn of time. I do wonder, though, when women will tire of their part in the story and revolt. I imagine the bloodbath."-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust
"Miles of information... so that questions might be answered, so that judgements might be made, so that stories would not be lost, so that memory might outlive slaughter. So that crimes against humani…"-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust
29. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
30. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
31. The Book of Disbelieving
By: David Lawrence Morse
3.85
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The nine stories in The Book of Disbelieving open portals to fabulist worlds and magical objects: a… read more
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- adult fiction
- magical realism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- speculative fiction
