The Loss of All Lost Things
By: Amina Gautier
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The fifteen stories in The Loss of All Lost Things explore the unpredictable ways in which characte…
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1. Penpal
By: Dathan Auerbach
3.86
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Befo… read more
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- fiction
"Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves"-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
"Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer."-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
"Our loved ones pass away or simply leave our lives forever too soon, and we think to ourselves, “I wasn’t ready for you to leave. It just wasn’t time,"-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
"We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were."-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
2. Who Fears Death
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.94
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of… read more
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- fiction
"If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"Oh, how our traditions limit and outcast those of us who aren't normal."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"My mother once said that fear is like a man who, once burned, is afraid of a glow worm"-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
3. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
4. The Shell Collector
By: Anthony Doerr
3.99
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take readers from the… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Life can turn out a million ways. - Pg. 82"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
"Every second of every day has its own magic. - Pg. 163-4"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
"The world had become like an exhibit at Ward’s museum: pretty and nostalgic and watered down, something old and sealed off you weren’t allowed to touch. - Pg. 204"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
"He wants to tell her what he has learned about the miracles of light, the way a day's light fluxes in tides: pale and gleaming at dawn, the glare of noon, the gold of evening, the promise of twilight…"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
5. Fever Dream
By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp
3.72
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more
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- fiction
"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
6. The Female Man
By: Joanna Russ
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more
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- fiction
7. Pride of Baghdad
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Niko Henrichon
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
From one of America's most critically acclaimed graphic novel writers - inspired by true events, a … read more
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- fiction
8. The Loss of All Lost Things
By: Amina Gautier
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The fifteen stories in The Loss of All Lost Things explore the unpredictable ways in which characte… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
9. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
10. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
By: Francine Prose
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
In her entertaining and edifying New York Timesbestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites … read more
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11. Children of Blood and Bone
By: Tomi Adeyemi
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Zelie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orisha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders b… read more
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12. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
By: Z.Z. Packer
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Chosen by John Updike as a Today ShowBook Club Pick.Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now … read more
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13. Honey Girl
By: Morgan Rogers
3.67
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a gir… read more
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- fiction
"Who else can understand loneliness if not someone who sits in solitude all their own?"-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl
"Maybe Plato knew something we didn't. Or maybe the gods did, when they split us in half and left us to reclaim our missing fragments."-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl
"The sea isn't inherently supernatural, or even scary. But it holds many unknowns. Sometimes unknowns are the scariest things of all, aren't they?"-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl
14. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
By: Zoraida Córdova
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry n… read more
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- fiction
"When she’d met Orquidea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream."-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
"People think they know about misfortune and bad luck. But there was being unlucky-like when you tripped over your shoelaces or dropped a five-dollar bill in the subway or ran into your ex when you we…"-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
15. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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16. You Love Me (You, #3)
By: Caroline Kepnes
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Joe is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now, he’s sayi… read more
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"You're lucky to get your heart broke. That just means you have a heart."-Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me (You, #3)
"The iPhone killed romance and turned us all into lazy, nasty stalkers..."-Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me (You, #3)
"We don't come from places. We come from time. From traumatic moments that cannot be undone."-Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me (You, #3)
"Just once I'd like to fall for someone who isn't handicapped by narcissism, but it's too late. I love you."-Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me (You, #3)
17. Last Summer on State Street
By: Toya Wolfe
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more
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18. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
19. The Mysteries
By: Bill Watterson
3.76
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more
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20. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
21. Call Us What We Carry
By: Amanda Gorman
4.28
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more
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"Loss is the cost of loving"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We write Because you might listen."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"And the norms and notions of what “just is"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
22. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
23. Tomb Sweeping
By: Alexandra Chang
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
24. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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- fiction
"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
25. The Houseguest and Other Stories
By: Amparo Dávila
3.65
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories
26. Vladimir
By: Julia May Jonas
3.44
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more
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- fiction
"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
27. So You Want to Talk About Race
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.49
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more
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"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
28. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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- fiction
"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
29. Sabrina & Corina
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Age has nothing to do with sadness."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"And that is our story of everything."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"That poor girl. How the world just ate her up."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
30. The Leftover Woman
By: Jean Kwok
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two ver… read more
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- fiction
31. Like a Sister
By: Kellye Garrett
3.25
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A twisty, voice-driven thriller for fans of Megan Miranda and Jessica Knoll, in which no one bats a… read more
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- fiction
