The Icarus Girl
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Posses…
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1. Nectar in a Sieve
By: Kamala Markandaya
3.69
Format: 186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fi… read more
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- fiction
"We live by our labors from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the wea…"-Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
"They may live in our midst but I can never accept them, for they lay their hands upon us and we are all turned from tilling to barter, and hoard our silver since we cannot spend it, and see our child…"-Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
2. Un Lun Dun
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mieville's Embassytown. What is Un Lun Dun? It i… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
3. Un mundo huérfano
By: Giuseppe Caputo
3.84
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Un padre y un hijo intentan sobrevivir a la pobreza. Viven en un barrio oscuro, sin faroles, a oril… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
4. The Icarus Girl
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Posses… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- magical realism
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- fantasy
5. Hôtel Splendid
By: Jordan Stump , Marie Redonnet
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
These three short novels are the first works to appear in English by a remarkable contemporary Fren… read more
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- fiction
6. 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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7. Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
By: Alissa Nutting
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are in… read more
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8. Zahrah the Windseeker
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the northern Ooni Kingdom, fear of the unknown runs deep, and children born dada are rumored to … read more
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9. I Do Not Come to You by Chance
By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more
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10. Nightfall One
By: Isaac Asimov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nightfall Oneis the first half of a collection of Isaac Asimov's science fiction, short stories. Ea… read more
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11. PTSD Radio 1 (Vol. 1-2) (Ptsd Radio Omnibus, 1)
By: Masaaki Nakayama
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures huma… read more
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- fiction
- horror
12. Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right
By: Ukamaka Olisakwe
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadin… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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- fiction
- horror
15. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
16. Early Light
By: Osamu Dazai
3.71
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates hi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"A farmhouse was blazing away right before us. It took an incredibly long time to burn to the ground. One could almost see the history of that house going up in flames along with its roof and pillars."-Osamu Dazai, Early Light
17. Flyaway
By: Kathleen Jennings
3.56
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories."-Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway
18. 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
- africa
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
"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!
19. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
20. Information Desk: An Epic
By: Robyn Schiff
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more
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- contemporary
21. A Devil Comes to Town
By: Paolo Maurensig
3.53
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
