Made for Love
By: Alissa Nutting
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane--his extreme…
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1. Made for Love
By: Alissa Nutting
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane--his extreme… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
- adult
2. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
3. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- humor
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
4. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
5. Vacuum in the Dark
By: Jen Beagin
3.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voic… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
6. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
7. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
8. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
9. The Pisces
By: Melissa Broder
3.30
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"He took off my flip-flops and began kissing my feet, sucking my toes."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"Feelings were a luxory of the young, or someone much stronger than me - someone more at ease with being human"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"I'd been wrong about death ... There was no gentle escape. When I had taken those Ambien in Phoenix I thought there was a peaceful way to just kind of disappear. But death wasn't gentle. It was a rob…"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
10. Pretend I'm Dead
By: Jen Beagin
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner an… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"You respect me?" Sheila asked, surprised. "As a person?" "No, as a pigeon."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"She smiled. It was rare for her to find someone attractive physically and also to like what came out of their mouth."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"He was one of the fortunate ones. He'd emerged from childhood a whole person and his past wasn't some vast immovable mass with its own weather system."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
11. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
12. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
13. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
16. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
17. Normal Women
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled… read more
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- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
18. 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
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
3.83
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
20. Slug and Other Stories
By: Megan Milks
3.95
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls i… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
21. Kill for Love
By: Laura Picklesimer
3.65
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
