Saints and Strangers
By: Angela Carter
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Saints and Strangers(also published as Black Venus), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carte…
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1. The Invention of Angela Carter
By: Edmund Gordon
4.29
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last… read more
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2. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #4)
By: Louise Rennison
4.01
Format: 214 pages, Library Binding
Since Georgia's been dating the yummy scrumboes Sex God, Robbie, her glossy lips are always at the … read more
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- fiction
"He who laughs last laughs the laughiest."-Louise Rennison, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #4)
"Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!"-Louise Rennison, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #4)
3. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #3)
By: Louise Rennison
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Georgia Nicolson is now the girlfriend of the Sex God (aka Robbie), and things are wonderful. Excep… read more
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4. Saints and Strangers
By: Angela Carter
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Saints and Strangers(also published as Black Venus), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carte… read more
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- classics
- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- horror
- fantasy
5. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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6. The Wanting Seed
By: Anthony Burgess
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family l… read more
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7. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #5)
By: Louise Rennison
4.00
Format: 208 pages,
The Barnes Noble Review: The tres bon and marvy heroine of Louise Rennison's Confessions of Georgia… read more
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8. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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9. The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
By: Alexander Pushkin , Alan Myers , Andrew Kahn
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spad… read more
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10. Geography III
By: Elizabeth Bishop
3.90
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Geography III, Bishop's final book of poems, first appaered in 1976. It contains such masterpieces … read more
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11. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
By: Iris Murdoch
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the c… read more
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12. Swordspoint (Riverside, #1)
By: Ellen Kushner
3.91
Format: 385 pages,
The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories. Hailed by critics as … read more
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13. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
14. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
By: Imogen Hermes Gowar
3.55
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
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- historical fiction
"A whore is a whore is a whore."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"For what is she, but a spare daughter?"-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"I cry out and there is a dull nothing."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"All cats are grey with the candles out."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
15. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
16. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
17. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- short stories
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- horror
18. Lance
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.37
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories—"The Aurelian", "Signs and … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"So it went on, that obsession and that despair and that nightmarish impossibility to swindle destiny, until a certain first of April, of all dates."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
"What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
"I not only debar too definite a planet from any role in my story – from the role every dot and full stop should play in my story (which I see as a kind of celestial chart)."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
"The clichés are, of course, disguised; essentially, they are the same throughout all cheap reading matter, whether it spans the universe or the living room. They are like those 'assorted' cookies tha…"-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance
19. The Promise
By: Silvina Ocampo
3.68
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Gabriela has been dreaming about her and about a pair of shoes for quite some time."-Silvina Ocampo, The Promise
"Have you ever eaten flies?" Mendiondo asked. "Yes, when I was a kid, on a dare. Of course, I tore off the wings and tiny legs before I ate it."-Silvina Ocampo, The Promise
"In a way, like Scheherazade to King Shahryar, I told stories to death so that it would spare my life and my images, stories that seemed to never end."-Silvina Ocampo, The Promise
"Children are like that, Irene often thought, for every small dose of happiness they give us, we have to swallow all the bitterness in the world. Men are like that too. That's how the world is."-Silvina Ocampo, The Promise
20. Ghost Of
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.36
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more
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21. The Gigolo
By: Françoise Sagan
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool… read more
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