Blue Ticket
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken…
Want to Read $ 4.99"I wondered if motherhood held such appeal for me because it was a masochism you couldn't ever let go of."-Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket
"I wondered if motherhood held such appeal for me because it was a masochism you couldn't ever let go of."-Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket
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1. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- literary fiction
- feminism
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
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
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
4. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
5. Blue Ticket
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- feminism
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I wondered if motherhood held such appeal for me because it was a masochism you couldn't ever let go of."-Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket
6. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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
7. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
8. The New Wilderness
By: Diane Cook
3.68
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"It was soft, tickling. The liquid was cold going on, like dipping her pinky into a winter river's icy slurry. A thrill shot through her neck. Then, everything on her finger closed up., tightened, sto…"-Diane Cook, The New Wilderness
9. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
10. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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
11. Io, te, l'amore. Vivere le relazioni nell'era del narcisismo
By: Stefania Andreoli
3.94
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
"Doc, come faccio a capire se lo/la amo?", "Doc, quando ho la certezza che una storia d'amore è fin… read more
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- audiobook
12. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
13. Everything You Ever Wanted
By: Luiza Sauma
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy mee… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
14. My Name is Monster
By: Katie Hale
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, M… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"…not speaking can sometimes be just as loud as saying words."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"I found that thinking was easier when there was someone to talk at."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"…it is easier to think about hating people than about wanting them."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"I say my story starts here because endings are always a kind of beginning."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
15. Cannibals
By: Shin'ya Tanaka
2.92
Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition
During the hot, dry summer of 1988, in a forgotten neighborhood known as the riverside, seventeen-y… read more
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- fiction
16. Lo faccio per me. Essere madri senza il mito del sacrificio
By: Stefania Andreoli
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Uno sguardo liberatorio sull'essere donne e madri. Ogni martedì la psicoterapeuta Stefania And… read more
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- audiobook
17. Sprigs
By: Brannavan Gnanalingam
4.58
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
It is Saturday afternoon and two boys’ schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Pr… read more
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- fiction
18. Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)
By: A.M. Shine
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the … read more
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- fiction
19. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
20. The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers (Dark Minds True Crimes)
By: Richard Estep
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
How well do you know your neighbors? Maybe you should get to know them better! Growing up, we are t… read more
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- audiobook
21. She's Always Hungry: Stories
By: Eliza Clark
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
