Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
By: Leigh Newman
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Dail…
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1. Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
By: None , Velma Wallis
4.08
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of… read more
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- historical
- fiction
"They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
"Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
2. The End of Drum-Time
By: Hanna Pylväinen
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
3. Shutter
By: Ramona Emerson
3.80
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"-Ramona Emerson, Shutter
4. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
5. Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
By: Leigh Newman
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Dail… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- historical
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- nature
- audiobook
6. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
7. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
8. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- nature
- 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
9. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
10. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
11. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
12. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
13. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Holler, Child: Stories
By: LaToya Watkins
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. Holiday Country
By: İnci Atrek
3.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Town of Babylon
By: Alejandro Varela
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
18. The Birdcatcher
By: Gayl Jones
3.04
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"You cannot grow without growing inside."-Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher
19. How Strange a Season
By: Megan Mayhew Bergman
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- historical
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Maria, Maria and Other Stories
By: Marytza K. Rubio
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
21. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
