Delicious Foods
By: James Hannaham
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
Darlene, a young widow and mother devastated by the death of her husband, turns to drugs to erase t…
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1. Stories: All-New Tales
By: Elizabeth Hand , Jodi Picoult , Michael Swanwick , Joyce Carol Oates , Jeffrey Ford , Lawrence Block , Neil Gaiman , Gene Wolfe , Jeffery Deaver , Michael Moorcock , Roddy Doyle , Walter Mosley , Tim Powers , Al Sarrantonio , Diana Wynne Jones , Joanne Harris , Richard Adams , Kat Howard , Peter Straub , Chuck Palahniuk , Joe Hill , Joe R. Lansdale , Stewart O'Nan , Michael Marshall Smith , Jonathan Carroll , None , Kurt Andersen
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
"The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . ." The best stories pull readers in and kee… read more
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2. Baking Cakes in Kigali
By: Gaile Parkin
4.73
Format: None pages,
Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity,… read more
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3. Delicious Foods
By: James Hannaham
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
Darlene, a young widow and mother devastated by the death of her husband, turns to drugs to erase t… read more
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- african american
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4. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
By: Morgan Parker
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more
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5. Babel-17/Empire Star
By: Samuel R. Delany
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Author of the bestselling Dhalgrenand winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one … read more
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6. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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7. Cold People
By: Tom Rob Smith
3.52
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for… read more
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- adult
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- audiobook
8. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- literary fiction
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9. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
10. Harold
By: Steven Wright
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the t… read more
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- audiobook
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"Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color."-Steven Wright, Harold
"She smelled too. Like a 22 year old girl. He tried to place that smell but he couldn't. It seemed like a mixture of skin lotion and confidence."-Steven Wright, Harold
"In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall"-Steven Wright, Harold
"Harold thought how weird and strange it must be to be a girl. He was glad he wasn’t one because he didn’t think he would be able to do that. Or he wouldn’t want to do that. It’s probably good that yo…"-Steven Wright, Harold
11. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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12. Dead in Long Beach, California
By: Venita Blackburn
3.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more
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13. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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14. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
15. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child
By: Kim Cross
4.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more
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16. 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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- race
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"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
17. King Nyx
By: Kirsten Bakis
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more
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18. Females
By: Andrea Long Chu
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more
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"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."-Andrea Long Chu, Females
"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"-Andrea Long Chu, Females
19. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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20. How We Named the Stars
By: Andrés N. Ordorica
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more
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21. The Other's Gold
By: Elizabeth Ames
3.20
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, … read more
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"What she couldn't understand was people who didn't imagine everything."-Elizabeth Ames, The Other's Gold
