Eat the Document
By: Dana Spiotta
3.83
Format: None pages,
An ambitious and powerful story about idealism, passion, and sacrifice, Eat the Document shifts bet…
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
By: Philip Roth
3.91
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a… read more
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- american
- fiction
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- novels
"Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"موته كان خلاصها.الموت تدخل ليبسط كل شيء.كل شك،كل ريبة،كل الهواجس أزيحت جانبا على يد ذلك المستخف الأعظم بهم جميعا،الذي هو الموت."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
3. Super Sad True Love Story
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.45
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Ga… read more
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- novels
- american
- fiction
- contemporary
"You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes."-Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
"What if we just went home and read books to each other?"-Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
"Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart."-Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
"There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up."-Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
4. Zone One
By: Colson Whitehead
3.26
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The pl… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"A society manufactures the heroes it requires."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
5. The Flamethrowers
By: Rachel Kushner
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Country Life
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Stella Benson, anxious to leave London and begin a new life, journeys to rural Sussex to work as an… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
7. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso syn… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Dark Lies the Island
By: Kevin Barry
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new book from the winner of the 2012 Sunday TimesEFG Private Bank Short Story Prize. A kiss that … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. Eat the Document
By: Dana Spiotta
3.83
Format: None pages,
An ambitious and powerful story about idealism, passion, and sacrifice, Eat the Document shifts bet… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- politics
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
10. Fieldwork
By: Mischa Berlinski
3.14
Format: 208 pages,
A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murd… read more
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11. Asymmetry: A Novel
By: None
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of l… read more
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12. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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13. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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14. Swamplandia!
By: Karen Russell
3.27
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"the gravity of wound to fist"-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
15. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- literary fiction
- politics
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
16. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
17. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)
By: Stephen Spotswood
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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- politics
19. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- politics
20. The Knockout Queen
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.70
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bu… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"At root, I seemed to be upset about the existence of physical power at all. That violence is nothing but another kind of touching."-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"You can hit. Not anybody in this world can really and truly stop you if hitting is how you want to be. But if you do, you’re risking all that love you could have. Because nobody, nobody, nobody is go…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"But sometimes when you are in a moment, it’s so close to your face, reality, it’s pressed up so close to you, that you just flinch, you react, and then your fate is decided, and all you have done was…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
21. Off the Books
By: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Going karura mean ride service off the books."-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books
"On the Fourth, he’d been cowardly. And this time he hadn’t missed."-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books
"Was the decline of journalistic ethics an inevitable result of capitalism?"-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books
"She would hate it, but she’s saving her hate for the Three I’s. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana."-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books
