Here Is What You Do
By: Chris Dennis
3.62
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our hum…
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1. The People in the Trees
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.73
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an e… read more
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- fiction
"For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?"-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"to fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"No existe forma satisfactoria o novedosa de describir la belleza y, por lo demás, me avergüenza hacerlo."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"Desaprender cosas es mucho más complicado que aprenderlas, y hasta los más audaces de espíritu se ven tentados a recular hacia lo conocido a la primera oportunidad."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
2. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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- audiobook
"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
3. 20th Century Ghosts
By: Christopher Golden , Joe Hill
3.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and kno… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
4. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
5. Bear
By: Marian Engel
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel wh… read more
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- fiction
6. Physical
By: Andrew McMillan
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Raw and urgent, these poems are hy… read more
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7. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
By: Maggie Nelson
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more
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8. Taproot
By: Keezy Young
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, H… read more
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9. Homesick for Another World
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.62
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Otte… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"It's a lonely life."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
"Be careful with women,"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
"Nothing made me happy."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
"I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
10. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
11. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
12. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- lgbt
13. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
14. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
15. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
16. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- lgbt
17. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
18. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
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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- fiction
- audiobook
"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
19. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
20. Daddy
By: Emma Cline
3.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The stories in Emma Cline’s stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
21. Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
22. Radiant Fugitives
By: Nawaaz Ahmed
3.67
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A tour-de-force debut following three generations of a Muslim-Indian family confronted with a nati… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
23. Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
By: Haruki Murakami
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's exten… read more
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"Now that I’ve lived this long, and find myself with enough T-shirts to write a whole book about them, frankly it seems kind of scary."-Haruki Murakami, Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
24. 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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- fiction
- 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
25. Ti amo
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.86
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
"Jeg elsker deg. Vi sier det til hverandre hele tiden. Vi sier det, i stedet for å si noe annet. Hv… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
26. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
27. Manywhere: Stories
By: Morgan Thomas
3.81
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
28. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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- lgbt
29. The Night of Baba Yaga
By: Akira Otani
3.40
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- lgbt
30. Here Is What You Do
By: Chris Dennis
3.62
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our hum… read more
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31. Out of the Pickle Jar
By: Stephanie Plumlee
4.63
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This deeply personal memoir chronicles the journey of two siblings growing up in a turbulent, dysfu… read more
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