Music for Wartime: Stories
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune,O Magazine, BuzzFeed,The Huffington Post,Minneapolis Star-…
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1. The Toynbee Convector
By: Ray Bradbury
3.80
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
A superlative new collection of twenty-two stories by the author of "The Martian Chronicles" includ… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."-Ray Bradbury, The Toynbee Convector
2. Music for Wartime: Stories
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune,O Magazine, BuzzFeed,The Huffington Post,Minneapolis Star-… read more
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- music
- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
6. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
7. Butcher
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
9. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
By: Brad Gooch
4.39
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“It’s all the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more
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10. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
11. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
12. The Book of Love
By: Kelly Link
3.50
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more
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- fiction
13. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
14. Kittentits
By: Holly Wilson
3.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
16. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
17. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy
By: Brian Stelter
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of HOAX, “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more
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18. The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.88
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously ill… read more
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- music
- short stories
- fiction
19. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By: Emily Raboteau
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more
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20. Goddess of the River
By: Vaishnavi Patel
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. Women! In! Peril!
By: Jessie Ren Marshall
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this brash and unputdownable collection, award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall invites us… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
