Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t…
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1. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
2. Wish Her Safe at Home
By: Stephen Benatar , John Carey
3.66
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in a… read more
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- literary fiction
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"A charmed life that carried a curse? Or a cursed life that carried a charm?"-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
"I saw that she wasn't wearing a wedding ring. I automatically liked her and despised her and felt sorry for her and was glad."-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
"So I stayed with my mother. And she and I experienced a mainly joyless and destructive relationship of hopeless interdependence."-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
"My dear Rachel," she answered. "Bristol may be a bit of a backwater but I daresay it can just about stand the shock of scarlet nail polish."-Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home
3. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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- american
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4. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
5. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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6. The Old Man and Me
By: Elaine Dundy
3.44
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hila… read more
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7. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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8. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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9. After Claude
By: None
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat." That at least is how Harriet sees things… read more
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10. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
11. The Fawn
By: Magda Szabó
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more
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- classics
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12. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
13. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- fiction
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"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
14. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- lgbt
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- queer
15. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- lgbt
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- queer
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
16. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- american
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
17. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
18. 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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19. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- fiction
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20. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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21. In the Act
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more
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"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act
