The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
By: Rachel Kushner
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture Rachel Kushner has…
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1. Veronica
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.59
Format: None pages,
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more
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2. My Education
By: Susan Choi
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of American Woman and A Person o… read more
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3. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
4. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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5. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
6. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
7. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
8. 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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9. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
10. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
11. The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
By: Rachel Kushner
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture Rachel Kushner has… read more
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- art
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12. Everybody: A Book About Freedom
By: Olivia Laing
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more
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13. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
14. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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- art
- audiobook
15. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
16. Reproduction
By: Louisa Hall
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood … read more
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17. The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared
By: Randall Sullivan
3.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Part true crime story, part historical account, part religious and literary analysis, an investigat… read more
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18. Monarch
By: Candice Wuehle
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The cryptic worlds of Hanna and Stranger Things mingle with the dark humor of Dare Me in this debut… read more
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19. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
By: Ann Powers
3.51
Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition
For decades Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated ar… read more
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20. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
21. Heart, Be at Peace
By: Donal Ryan
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more
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