Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
By: Bette Howland
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed collection that restored to the literary canon "a long-overlooked artist of live-wire…
Want to Read $ 9.99"If we're not lost—what are we doing here?"-Bette Howland, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
"My grandmother had died the night before; the funeral was tomorrow. I was in New York when my mother called with the news. “No one expects you. You don't need to come."-Bette Howland, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
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By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
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2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. The View from Castle Rock
By: Alice Munro
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories th… read more
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4. McGlue
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.67
Format: None pages,
Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more
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4.26
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6. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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7. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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8. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. The Heart
By: Maylis de Kerangal , Sam Taylor
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, … read more
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10. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
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11. August Blue
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3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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12. A Spell of Good Things
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3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
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13. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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14. The Best American Short Stories 2022
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3.67
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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15. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
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16. The Vulnerables
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3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
17. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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3.82
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessen… read more
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"Vielleicht ist das einer der Problempunkte an der Ewigkeit. Dass man nun mal nicht weiß, wohin man sich fortan wenden soll. Aber was ist eine Liebe wert, die nicht nach Ewigkeit strebt?"-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls
"Später war er so freundlich, mir in einem Satz zu erklären, warum er im Alltag immer einen Rock trug. "Vor allem fühle ich mich, wenn ich einen Rock trage, wie die Zeilen eines schönen Gedichts."-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls
18. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
19. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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20. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
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21. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
22. The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®)
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner … read more
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23. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
24. Els murs invisibles
By: Ramon Mas
4.02
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
La nit del divendres 12 de març del 2004, assegut en un bar de Vallcarca amb els seus companys de l… read more
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25. The Future Future
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2.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon… read more
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26. Les feres
By: Uriol Gilibets Barbens
4.24
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Sant Gonera és un poble perdut en algun punt, posem per cas, del deep Solsonès. Un matí de Nadal es… read more
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27. Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
By: Bette Howland
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed collection that restored to the literary canon "a long-overlooked artist of live-wire… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
"If we're not lost—what are we doing here?"-Bette Howland, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
"My grandmother had died the night before; the funeral was tomorrow. I was in New York when my mother called with the news. “No one expects you. You don't need to come."-Bette Howland, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
28. We Do Not Part
By: Han Kang
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Han Kang’s most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendshi… read more
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29. Les edats de l'home
By: Etgar Keret
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Aquesta antologia no només mira de recopilar els millors contes que Etgar Keret ens ha brindat fins… read more
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