Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
By: Jac Jemc
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins K…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Loneliness is keenest when in the company of others, when comparisons suggest that everyone else is relating to and forming bonds with one another ... To make a connection requires risking rejection. To share a story requires an audience trustworthy enough to receive it. The longer a person remains isolated, the more sensitive they become to potential threats. The longer a story goes untold, the harder it gets to tell."-Jac Jemc, Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
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1. The Fair Fight
By: Anna Freeman
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sarah Waters and The Crimson Petal and the White, a vibrant tale of female boxers and t… read more
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2. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- literary fiction
- queer
- lgbt
- fiction
- audiobook
3. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
5. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
6. Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
By: Jac Jemc
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins K… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- 19th century
- historical
- germany
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"Loneliness is keenest when in the company of others, when comparisons suggest that everyone else is relating to and forming bonds with one another ... To make a connection requires risking rejection.…"-Jac Jemc, Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
7. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Tower
By: Flora Carr
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
9. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- historical
- adult
- audiobook
10. The World and All That It Holds
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
11. One Woman Show
By: Christine Coulson
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
12. The Ministry of Time
By: Kaliane Bradley
3.62
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
13. The God of Endings
By: Jacqueline Holland
3.80
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
14. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
15. Edith Holler
By: Edward Carey
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the m… read more
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- fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
16. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
17. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
18. Up With the Sun
By: Thomas Mallon
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York C… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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19. A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home: Housekeeping Hacks You Can't Live Without
By: Melissa Dilkes Pateras
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about laundry, cleaning, and basic home repairs—from the TikTok star wh… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
- audiobook
20. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
