Books like 'Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women'
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In the End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only to discover that the problems which have long haunted him have arrived there too, and are more present than ever...Categorized as:
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![Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi]()
Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada...Categorized as:
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![Choice by Jodi Picoult, Thérèse Plummer]()
Choice by Jodi Picoult, Thérèse Plummer
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsListening Length: 38 minutesIn this thought-provoking short, #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Jodi Picoult explores a dystopian crisis through the pinhole lens of an ex-couple experiencing an unwanted pregnancy.Margot and James are broken up—for good this time. James made sure of it when he dropped the bomb on Margot: that he doesn’t want kids, ever...Categorized as:
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![Signals: New and Selected Stories by Tim Gautreaux]()
Signals: New and Selected Stories by Tim Gautreaux
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017Containing twelve new stories and nine classics from previous collections, Signals is Tim Gautreaux at his best. Effortlessly conjuring the heat and humidity of the author's beloved South, these stories of men and women grappling with faith, small town life, and blue-collar work are alternately ridiculous and sublime...Categorized as:
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![The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen]()
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean “Tom o’Bedlam” (“By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney / Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end / Methinks it is no journey…”), Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey to the furthest limits of love and murder, madness and sex. While on this disordered pilgrimage to H...Categorized as:
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![This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson]()
This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love...Categorized as:
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![Dawn: Stories by Selahattin Demirtaş, Maureen Freely]()
Dawn: Stories by Selahattin Demirtaş, Maureen Freely
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint, SJP for Hogarth: Written from behind bars, the unforgettable collection from one of Turkey’s leading politicians and most powerful storytellers.In this essential collection, Selahattin Demirtaş’s arresting stories capture the voices of ordinary people living through extraordinary times...Categorized as:
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![The Few: A Novel by Hakan Günday]()
The Few: A Novel by Hakan Günday
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I am here. Where are you?” These desperate words link the two protagonists of Hakan Günday’s raw and fearless novel The Few. Derdâ is an eleven-year-old girl pulled out of boarding school by her mother who, without telling her, plans to sell her as a wife to a conservative tribesman. She goes with her new husband to London, where for five years he abuses and all but imprisons her... -
![Ironopolis by Glen James Brown]()
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis — nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough — the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future .. -
![Le Chant Du Bouc by Dermot Healy, Michel Lederer]()
Le Chant Du Bouc by Dermot Healy, Michel Lederer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a wind-battered cottage in western Ireland, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with actress Catherine Adams. Misunderstandings, alcohol, religious differences, and despair have driven them apart. When Jack recreates Catherine in his imagination, the two world's of Catholic and Protestant run together back to the present... -
![Jasmine Days by Benyamin]()
Jasmine Days by Benyamin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSameera moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern city to live with her father and her relatives, when a revolution blooms. Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, this is the story of a young woman, whose happy world falls apart when the promise of revolution turns into destruction and division... -
![Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener]()
Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUna política de izquierda víctima del lawfare se encuentra prisionera en una cárcel de alta seguridad en las entrañas de la selva amazónica.Se hace llamar Atusparia, como el líder de la resistencia indígena peruana del siglo XIX y como el delirante colegio comunista donde estudió en los estertores de la guerra fría... -
![A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen]()
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year... -
![House of Cards: A Novel by Sudha Murty]()
House of Cards: A Novel by Sudha Murty
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHouse of Cards is the story of Mridula, a bright young woman with enormous enthusiasm for life who hails from a Karnataka village. A chance meeting with Sanjay, a talented but impoverished doctor, leads to love—and the couple marry and settle in Bangalore.The more Mridula sees of the world, the more she realizes how selfish and materialistic people can be... -
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![Russische Spezialitäten by Dmitrij Kapitelman]()
Russische Spezialitäten by Dmitrij Kapitelman
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEine Familie aus Kyjiw verkauft russische Spezialitäten in Leipzig. Wodka, Pelmeni, SIM-Karten, Matrosenshirts – und ein irgendwie osteuropäisches Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl. Wobei, Letzteres ist seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine nicht mehr zu haben. Die Mutter steht an der Seite Putins... -
![The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua]()
The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally determined to understand the causes of the Algerian civil war of the 1990s and the mystery of his son's divorce... -
![Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories by May-lee Chai]()
Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories by May-lee Chai
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the title story of this timely and innovative collection, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures, generations, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai's amazing stories...Categorized as:
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![The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux]()
The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSelected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways...Categorized as:
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![The Restless Supermarket by Ivan Vladislavić]()
The Restless Supermarket by Ivan Vladislavić
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Vladislavic is amazing!"—Teju ColeIt is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favorite neighborhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa is already gone... -
![Theft by Luke Brown]()
Theft by Luke Brown
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat I did to them was terrible, but you have to understand the context. This was London, 2016 . . . Bohemia is history. Paul has awoken to the fact that he will always be better known for reviewing haircuts than for his literary journalism... -
![Imposible by Erri De Luca]()
Imposible by Erri De Luca
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDos hombres se encuentran en la montaña en un sendero poco transitado cuarenta años después de un juicio en el que uno se vestía con el traje de acusado por pertenecer a una organización política revolucionaria y el otro con el de delator arrepentido. Sólo uno de los dos saldrá vivo de ese paraje para volver a enfrentarse a la ley... -
![Chaos of the Senses by Ahlam Mosteghanemi]()
Chaos of the Senses by Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAhlam Mosteghanemi's second novel picks up where Memory in the Flesh left off, with the story of love set in the battered and bruised Algeria of the1990s... -
![The Water Thief by Nicholas Lamar Soutter]()
The Water Thief by Nicholas Lamar Soutter
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"There is no difference between the saint who gives food to starving children and the worker who operates the gas chamber that kills them, except that one is making money and the other is losing it."CHARLES THATCHER is a private citizen, which is to say that he's the private property of the Ackerman Brothers Securities Corporation... -
![Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon]()
Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the same vein of Kalisha Buckhanon’s critically-acclaimed debut novel Upstate , again she shares an emotionally beautiful story about today’s youth that magnifies the unforgettable power of hope and the human spirit... -
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![The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos]()
The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn her masterful debut novel, The Green Shore, award-winning writer Natalie Bakopoulos vividly illuminates a seminal yet little-explored moment in Greek history: the 1967 military coup d’état, which ushered in a seven-year period of devastating brutality and repression...Categorized as:
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![Big Chief by Jon Hickey]()
Big Chief by Jon Hickey
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors...Categorized as:
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![Downriver by Iain Sinclair]()
Downriver by Iain Sinclair
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDownriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZEThe Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants... -
![Happy: A Novel by Celina Baljeet Basra]()
Happy: A Novel by Celina Baljeet Basra
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams—a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis.In a farming village in Punjab, India, our moony young hero crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near the cell tower, listening out for the occasional rattlesnake... -
![Skinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard]()
Skinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen years after leaving South Africa, Eva van Rensburg returns to her dying father, a violent stuttering man whose terrible secret Eva has kept since she was a child, and to Skinner's Drift, the family farm, a tough stretch of land on the Limpopo River where jackals and leopards still roam... -
![Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua, Miriam Shlesinger]()
Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua, Miriam Shlesinger
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA story born out of the tensions between Jewish and Arab Israelis, the debut novel by twenty-eight-year-old Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua has been praised around the world for its honesty, irony, humor, and its uniquely human portrayal of a young man who moves between two societies, becoming a stranger to both... -
![A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips]()
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible...Categorized as:
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![Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers]()
Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019 In Edmundsbury, a small town in eastern England, fear and loathing are on the rise. Brexit has happened and the ramifications are real. Grass-roots, right-wing political party 'England Always' is fomenting hatred... -
![Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong]()
Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful—and funny—debut novel of generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-ageTwenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up...Categorized as:
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![A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin]()
A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting--a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S... -
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![The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra]()
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe story goes that in my family there’s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He’s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present. The first to vanish was my grandfather.In 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra’s grandfather’s home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower... -
![Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka]()
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation.In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr...Categorized as:
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![Next by James Hynes]()
Next by James Hynes
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Man, one day, and a novel bursting with drama, comedy, and humanity. Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged, generally determined to avoid both pain and responsibility... -
![The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings]()
The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Weight of Numbers describes the metamorphosis of three people: Anthony Burden, a mathematical genius destroyed by the beauty of numbers; Saul Cogan, transformed from prankster idealist to trafficker in the poor and dispossessed; and Stacey Chavez, ex-teenage celebrity and mediocre performance artist, hungry for fame and starved of love... -
![The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger]()
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes a bold, intricately woven first novel about an enigmatic stranger who disrupts the life of one American family.Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one year's artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St... -
![Adventures of the Artificial Woman by Thomas Berger]()
Adventures of the Artificial Woman by Thomas Berger
Rated: 2.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFed up with the sarcastic, opinionated, and disrespectful women he comes across, Ellery Pierce decides his only choice is to build the perfect woman. A technician at an animatronics firm, Ellery has the experience and tools ready at his fingertips. After years of experiments and fine-tuning, Ellery feels he finally has created an artificial woman who can pass as real -- Phyllis... -
![Story of a Sociopath by Julia Navarro]()
Story of a Sociopath by Julia Navarro
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI’m scum. Yes, I always have been. . . . I know what I did, and what I should have done. A spellbinding and provocative psychological thriller that shows just how far a man will go to win the most enduring and ruthless of games: the game of power. Raised in the upper echelons of elite New York society, Thomas Spencer has never wanted for much...Categorized as:
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