The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
By: Manuel Gonzales
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles…
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1. The Orphan Master's Son
By: Adam Johnson
4.07
Format: 443 pages, Hardcover
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influentia… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"Citizens, gather 'round your loudspeakers, for we bring important updates!"-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
2. Berg
By: Giles Gordon , Ann Quin
3.83
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his fathe… read more
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- fiction
"But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence; the ego only there to give significance"-Giles Gordon, Berg
"Threading experience through imaginative material, acting out fictitious parts, or choosing a stale-mate for compromise. Under this fabrication a secret army gathers defeating those who stalk the sca…"-Giles Gordon, Berg
3. The Sand Child
By: Tahar Ben Jelloun , Alan Sheridan
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and ra… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
4. The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
By: Manuel Gonzales
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles… read more
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- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- horror
- fantasy
5. Willful Creatures
By: Aimee Bender
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that … read more
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- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
6. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
7. The Woman Warrior
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more
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8. Boy: Tales of Childhood
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankste… read more
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9. The Secret History of Wonder Woman
By: Jill Lepore
3.81
Format: 320 pages,
A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing… read more
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10. The Russian Debutante's Handbook
By: Gary Shteyngart
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The Russian Debutante's Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin, one of the most original and unlikel… read more
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11. This Is Not Your City
By: Caitlin Horrocks
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your Cit… read more
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12. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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13. 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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14. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
By: Aimee Bender
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, u… read more
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15. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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16. 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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- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"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
17. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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- fiction
18. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
19. Gods of Want: Stories
By: K-Ming Chang
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more
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- short stories
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories
20. The Office of Historical Corrections
By: Danielle Evans
4.18
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
21. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
22. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
23. The Book of M
By: Peng Shepherd
3.69
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordin… read more
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- science fiction
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"We need to take care of what we can do before we sit around and worry about what we cant."-Peng Shepherd, The Book of M
"I hope of all things, I forget you last, Ory. I hope I forget you even after I forget where we're going. I'd rather drive forever and never reach New Orleans, but still remember you"-Peng Shepherd, The Book of M
24. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
25. The Lost Wife
By: Susanna Moore
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Drawn partly from a true story, a searing, totally immersive novel about a devastating Native Ameri… read more
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- fiction
26. City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1)
By: Iris Yamashita
3.54
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a singl… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
27. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
By: Michael Wolff
3.44
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes i… read more
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28. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
29. The Benefits of Being an Octopus
By: Ann Braden
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Some people can do their homework. Some people get to have crushes on boys. Some people have other … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Is a fishing rod evil because it catches someone's dinner? No. It's a tool. Just the way a gun is. Just the way a chain saw is. Just don't give it to the wrong person."-Ann Braden, The Benefits of Being an Octopus
30. Mastering the Art of French Murder (An American In Paris, #1)
By: Colleen Cambridge
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Marie Benedict, Nita Prose, and of course, Julia Child, will adore thi… read more
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- fiction
"If I could fix an airplane engine, I could roast a chicken. It couldn't be that difficult, could it? Yes. Yes, it could."-Colleen Cambridge, Mastering the Art of French Murder (An American In Paris, #1)
31. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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