The Beguiling
By: Zsuzsi Gartner
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut from the Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Better Living Through Plastic Exp…
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1. Love
By: Toni Morrison
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion an… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Home
By: Toni Morrison
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
3. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
4. Password to Larkspur Lane (Nancy Drew, #10)
By: Carolyn Keene , None
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A carrier pigeon furnishes Nancy with a clue to a mysterious retreat. read more
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5. Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
By: Anne Elizabeth Moore
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Unspeakable acts are committed on women's bodies under capitalism everyday. In Body Horror, Anne El… read more
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6. Dark Tales
By: Shirley Jackson
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more
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7. God Help the Child
By: Toni Morrison
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current … read more
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8. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
9. Blue Ticket
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I wondered if motherhood held such appeal for me because it was a masochism you couldn't ever let go of."-Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket
10. Jawbone
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
11. The Need
By: Helen Phillips
3.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries t… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened / melted, maddened / melted, maddened / melted."-Helen Phillips, The Need
"She wondered if other mothers experienced it, this permanent state of mild panic, and worried that perhaps they didn't, that perhaps there was something wrong with her."-Helen Phillips, The Need
"Brilliant, Molly thought, the cheese samples would absorb the kids while she finished the last bit of shopping for the party - the juice boxes, the rainbow sprinkles, the streamers, the other expense…"-Helen Phillips, The Need
12. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
13. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Flowers for the Sea
By: Zin E. Rocklyn
3.43
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Oct… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- audiobook
15. A Cosmology of Monsters
By: Shaun Hamill
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dar… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
"...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places."-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have no i…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"I don't reject the choices I've made, or the cost. It's not so surprising, I guess. My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harves…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and f…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
16. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
17. Liar, Dreamer, Thief
By: Maria Dong
3.59
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a sta… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
18. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
19. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Vagabonds!
By: Eloghosa Osunde
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
21. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
22. All's Well
By: Mona Awad
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
23. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
24. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)
By: Nathan W. Pyle
4.33
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more
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- fiction
"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)
25. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
26. Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
By: Maria Reva
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment bui… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
"For the rest of the day, Daniil pretended to work while the combine pretended to pay him."-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
"The internat had taught her well: as soon as you want something, you lack it; and if you do get it, it can easily be taken away. But this lesson came at a cost—a dry unfeeling clump had formed in her…"-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
"Candies Available for Civilian Consumption: Masha and Bear / Bear in the North / Little Bear / Clumsy Bear / Stratosphere / Strike! / Brighter! / Little Squirrel / Thumbelina / Moscow in Evening / Ki…"-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
27. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
28. Supplication
By: Nour Abi-Nakhoul
2.67
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a change… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
29. Days by Moonlight (Quincunx, #5)
By: André Alexis
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize "A mash-up that is part fabulism, part faux biog… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Having experienced what I did, it seemed to me that religion - its language, biblical advice, sacred ritual, and so on - was insignificant to the universe. I now felt that the universe is and that on…"-André Alexis, Days by Moonlight (Quincunx, #5)
30. The Beguiling
By: Zsuzsi Gartner
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut from the Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Better Living Through Plastic Exp… read more
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- gothic
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
31. The Capital of Dreams
By: Heather O'Neill
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistf… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
