Gingerbread
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.05
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns…
Want to Read $ 12.99"She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside."-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
"She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside."-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
"Handmade and heartfelt; Harriet wanted everything she did to be like this."-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
"Handmade and heartfelt; Harriet wanted everything she did to be like this."-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
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1. Mr. Peanut
By: Adam Ross
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a … read more
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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
2. Collected Poems
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Dmitri Nabokov
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
Nabokov's masterly Collected Poemsspan the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to… read more
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- fiction
3. The Great Night
By: Chris Adrian
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and mesmerizing retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." On Midsummer Ev… read more
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4. When Fox is a Thousand
By: Larissa Lai
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Fox is a Thousandis a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of th… read more
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5. The Glass Town Game
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings… read more
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6. Ganymede (The Clockwork Century, #3)
By: Cherie Priest
4.40
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he's happy to run alcohol gu… read more
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7. 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
- magical realism
- 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
8. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
9. Gingerbread
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.05
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns… read more
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- fairy tales
- literary fiction
- retellings
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside."-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
"Handmade and heartfelt; Harriet wanted everything she did to be like this."-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
"He was drinking Harriet's favourite, cold tea... not iced tea, but hot tea that had cooled. They liked him so much. They liked the way he talked when he talked and they liked his quiet when he was qu…"-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
"More than friends, eh? More than friends... You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there's any human relationsh…"-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
10. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
11. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
12. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
13. Just Lizzie
By: Karen Wilfrid
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written contemporary middle grade debut, an eighth grader's study of asexuality… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"How do you “start"-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie
"I thought having a name for myself, asexual, would be the answer. It isn’t, though. I don’t just want to know myself. I want other people to know me, understand me, believe me. So that I can actually…"-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie
"Sarah Nan takes me by the wrist and pulls me away. 'Lizzie, you were talking to a boy !' 'It's no big deal,' I tell her. Maybe it was--because it didn't feel like talking to a boy. It felt like talki…"-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie
" Asexual . The prefix 'a-' means 'not.' Hasn't my life always been about what I'm not? Not pretty, not athletic, not interested, not ready--but now here's this word that tells me that what I am not i…"-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie
14. Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women
By: Roseanne Montillo
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons i… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Great State of West Florida
By: Kent Wascom
3.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Po… read more
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- fiction
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16. If Tomorrow Comes (Yesterday's Kin, #2)
By: Nancy Kress
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nancy Kress returns with the sequel of Tomorrow's Kin, part of an all-new hard SF trilogy based on … read more
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- fantasy
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- audiobook
17. Weird Black Girls
By: Elwin Cotman
3.20
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories th… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"Alone without purpose, they fell asleep."-Elwin Cotman, Weird Black Girls
18. A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
By: Erin Sharkey
4.31
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in c… read more
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19. The Moonlight Market
By: Joanne Harris
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel … read more
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- fairy tales
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
" Love never ends--- but it changes. In some cases, it grows like a tree, stronger and more fruitful. In others, it changes nature, like chrysalis to butterfly. "-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"And, at that, picking up his parcel of books, Spider began to walk purposefully down the road, a river of light at his ragged heels, his spindly shadow beside him."-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor."-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good …"-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
20. Collected Stories
By: Shirley Hazzard
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
21. The Six Who Came to Dinner
By: Anne Youngson
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Six short stories full of colourful suspects and complicated motives by the winner of the Paul Tord… read more
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