Stories V!
By: Scott McClanahan
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final installment of Scott McClanahan's collections of short stories, following Storiesand Stor…
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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- literature
- american
- fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. Tenth of December
By: George Saunders
3.98
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- american
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
3. Go to work and do your job. Care for your children. Pay your bills. Obey the law. Buy products.
By: Noah Cicero
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Meet Mike. Mike wants to be a responsible human, but he's buried in student loans and job prospects… read more
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- fiction
4. Witchita Stories
By: Troy James Weaver
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
The short vignette-style tales in Troy James Weaver's literary debut, Witchita Stories, combine to … read more
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- short stories
5. Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
By: Kelly Sue DeConnick , Robert Wilson IV , Valentine De Landro
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Eisner Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De … read more
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- fiction
6. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
By: Andre Dubus III , James Alan McPherson , Breece D'J Pancake
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- american
7. Stories V!
By: Scott McClanahan
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final installment of Scott McClanahan's collections of short stories, following Storiesand Stor… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- american
8. The Bradshaw Variations
By: Rachel Cusk
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Since leaving his job to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas has found the structure of … read more
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9. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
By: George Saunders
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more
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10. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
By: Vivian Gornick
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachmentsand The End of the Novel… read more
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11. No One Belongs Here More Than You
By: Miranda July
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more
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12. The First Bad Man
By: Miranda July
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more
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13. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- short stories
14. Homesick for Another World
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.62
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Otte… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- american
"It's a lonely life."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
"Nothing made me happy."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
"Be careful with women,"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
"I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
15. Pastoralia
By: George Saunders
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more
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16. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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- fiction
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
17. 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
18. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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- fiction
"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
19. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
20. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
21. The Event: an epic joke
By: Sam Pink
4.35
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Where do YOU stand? read more
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22. Essays and Fictions
By: Brad Phillips
4.42
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Brad Phillips' collection of short stories adeptly walks a very thin line between taboo and proprie… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
"To be close to me is also to learn how to cope--to cope with how I cope."-Brad Phillips, Essays and Fictions
23. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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24. Body High
By: Jon Lindsey
4.20
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Squirting across the sunburned landscape of Southern California, Body High is a journey marked by m… read more
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- literature
- fiction
25. Cherry
By: Nico Walker
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a pas… read more
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"He said, “You look mentally ill."-Nico Walker, Cherry
"Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me."-Nico Walker, Cherry
"He said, "You look mentally ill" I said "I am, Let's go"-Nico Walker, Cherry
"Emily’s gone to take a shower. The room’s half-dark and I’m getting dressed, looking for a shirt with no blood on it, not having any luck."-Nico Walker, Cherry
26. Teenager
By: Bud Smith
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more
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- fiction
27. Everything Is Totally Fine
By: Zac Smith
4.06
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
A collection of weird, surreal, inventive stories ranging from six sentences to eight pages. Animal… read more
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- fiction
"I’m the sauce master. President Saucemaster. I feel suicidal every day and I don’t know how anyone doesn’t feel this way."-Zac Smith, Everything Is Totally Fine
"Venison stinks when you chew it, it stinks in your gullet. The putrid meat expands in your bowels, it constricts the intestines, it constricts the appetite—it murders you slowly, clogging your organs…"-Zac Smith, Everything Is Totally Fine
28. Mercy
By: Kelby Losack
4.18
Format: 90 pages, ebook
A man trades his heart for a gun rumored to kill gods. A boy with an arm made of iron hopes to bond… read more
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29. Running the Light
By: Sam Tallent
4.40
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Debauched, divorced and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to la… read more
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- fiction
30. Black Gypsies
By: Grant Wamack
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Chiraq… Marcus is a certified Jackboy on the streets of Chicago, stealing car parts w… read more
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31. Letting Out the Devils
By: Kelby Losack
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Our narrator spends his days behind bulletproof glass selling experimental, pseudo-legal drugs to t… read more
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