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A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsCasey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award (Canada). Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett]()
The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention...Categorized as:
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![Logic Beach: Part I by Exurb1a]()
Logic Beach: Part I by Exurb1a
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMathematician Polly Hare is missing. She leaves behind: one cat, one scarf, and a hypergeometric theory of everything with the potential to end physics. Her husband Benjamin is determined to bring her home. Papers will be read. Cults will be infiltrated. Cats will be petted. Benjamin Hare cannot tie his shoes, but he may well steer the course of human history... -
![The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel]()
The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired by writers and reviewers, has a sterling reputation that is based on four very short collections of stories, roughly fifteen thousand stunning sentences, written over a period of nearly three decades...Categorized as:
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![True Biz by Sara Nović]()
True Biz by Sara Nović
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talkTrue biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies...Categorized as:
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![Turquoise Green Winter by Carina Bartsch]()
Turquoise Green Winter by Carina Bartsch
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA week after "Cherry Red Summer," Emely still can't understand why both of her potential lovers, Elyas and Luca, suddenly broke off contact with her. She can't get answers from Luca since she knows him only through e-mails?and he's not replying. But she can certainly find Elyas, who she's known for years...Categorized as:
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Frankie by Graham Norton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers and larger-than-life characters...Categorized as:
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![The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue]()
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere would I start, and how would it even make sense? How could you understand the year in Shandon Street unless you were there, with us, living it?Rachel Murray is twenty-one years old, platonically infatuated with her housemate James, and less-than-platonically infatuated with her enigmatic, married English professor Dr Byrne... -
![A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway]()
A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1933; it was also included in his collection Winner Take Nothing (1933).James Joyce once remarked: "He [Hemingway] has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?... It is masterly...Categorized as:
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![O rio que me corta por dentro by Raul Damasceno]()
O rio que me corta por dentro by Raul Damasceno
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Me leva pra casa..." Em Carrasco, um lugarejo perdido nas entranhas do sertão cearense, corre um rio onde dois meninos gastam suas infâncias em mergulhos. Cícero e Luzimar, amigos inseparáveis, companheiros de aventuras por estas matas acinzentadas... -
![Drive Me Crazy by Beth Bolden]()
Drive Me Crazy by Beth Bolden
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Tony Blake walks into what might be a blind date, he’s surprisingly intrigued despite his irritation with his meddling brother. But when Lucas turns out to be a new employee for their food truck, Tony’s usual charm deserts him.Lucas might be fantastically creative in the kitchen, but to Tony’s disappointment, he’s not interested in more than a casual hookup... -
![The Celebrants by Steven Rowley]()
The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises--especially to ourselves--by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle. It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began... -
![I Love You, Lola Bloom by Rosy Dee]()
I Love You, Lola Bloom by Rosy Dee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome love stories write themselves.After a series of disastrous relationships, designer Maddison Appleby is fed up with everything love has had to offer, and can’t help but feel she’s destined to be alone forever. That is, until a chance encounter at a local book club sparks an unexpected connection with the beautiful Ruby Wilson - aka renowned lesfic author, Lola Bloom... -
![Abroad by Liz Jacobs]()
Abroad by Liz Jacobs
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNick Melnikov doesn’t know where he belongs. He was just a kid when his Russian-Jewish family immigrated to Michigan. Now he’s in London for university, overwhelmed by unexpected memories. Socially anxious, intensely private, and closeted, Nick doesn’t expect to fall in so quickly with a tight-knit group of students from his college, and it’s both exhilarating and scary... -
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![Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda]()
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry as three young people come to understand what it means to truly be a friend.In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway...Categorized as:
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![A Place to Go by Kit Oliver]()
A Place to Go by Kit Oliver
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFalling in love was a long, bumpy, wonderful ride.Now, they just have to figure out the rest of it: family, holidays...and what to get each other for Christmas... -
![Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz]()
Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiction. Short Stories. Originally released by Knopf in 1996, Lutz's rigorously innovative debut barely made a ripple in the mainstream publishing world. Meanwhile, however, the book attained a cult status, and its influence has grown tremendously in the years since its appearance, disappearance, and reappearance...Categorized as:
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![The Service by Frankie Miren]()
The Service by Frankie Miren
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLori works illegally in a rented flat in central London, living in fear of police raids which could mean losing her small daughter and her dream of a new life.Freya is a student who finds she can make far more money as an escort than she could in an office; life, after all, is already a tangle of madness and dissociation...Categorized as:
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![Enlightened by J.P. Barnaby]()
Enlightened by J.P. Barnaby
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLittle Boy Lost is the story of Brian McAllister, the boy next door. Brian goes to school, does his homework, and helps his foster parents around the house. Brian also has a secret: he is in love with his best friend, Jamie. But in Crayford, Alabama, being in love with another boy is the worst kind of sin. Brian and Jamie will discover just how deep their emotional bond runs, and at what cost... -
![Eunoia: The Set (CD and Book): The Set (CD and Book) by Christian Bök]()
Eunoia: The Set (CD and Book): The Set (CD and Book) by Christian Bök
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe word `eunoia', which literally means `beautiful thinking', is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram (the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter only E, etc.)... -
![A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt]()
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia...Categorized as:
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![Speechless by Tom Lanoye, Paul Vincent]()
Speechless by Tom Lanoye, Paul Vincent
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTom Lanoye's mother, an amateur actress, suffered a stroke and lost her ability to speak. With her voice, once so dear to her, gone, she deteriorated, slowly and inevitably. New attacks made her entirely dependent on help.As a grateful and moving homage he reconstructs her life in an abundance of language that used to be hers... -
![The Flick by Annie Baker]()
The Flick by Annie Baker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints a heartbreaking portrait of three characters and their working lives... -
![Un certain Paul Darrigrand by Philippe Besson]()
Un certain Paul Darrigrand by Philippe Besson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCette année-là, j'avais vingt-deux ans et j'allais, au même moment, rencontrer l'insaisissable Paul Darrigrand et flirter dangereusement avec la mort, sans que ces deux événements aient de rapport entre eux.D'un côté, le plaisir et l'insouciance ; de l'autre, la souffrance et l'inquiétude. Le corps qui exulte et le corps meurtri.Aujourd'hui, je me demande si, au fond, tout n'était pas lié... -
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![Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina]()
Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA visceral, stirring novel following a queer literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS, from the acclaimed author of WoundA decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of Steppe, now a literature student, decides to spend some time with him on the road as he makes deliveries across the vast plains of... -
![We Could Be Rats by Emily R. Austin]()
We Could Be Rats by Emily R. Austin
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space... -
![The Turning by Tim Winton, Humphrey Bower]()
The Turning by Tim Winton, Humphrey Bower
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia...Categorized as:
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![We Are Young by Cat Clarke]()
We Are Young by Cat Clarke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the same night Evan's mother marries local radio DJ 'Breakfast Tim', Evan's brand-new step-brother Lewis is found unconscious and terribly injured, the only survivor of a horrific car crash.A media furore erupts, with the finger of blame pointed firmly at stoner, loner Lewis. Everyone else seems to think the crash was drugs-related, but Evan isn't buying it... -
![The Last Novel by David Markson]()
The Last Novel by David Markson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn recent novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating," David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred to only as "Novelist") announces that since this will be his final effort, he has "carte blanche to do anything he damned well pleases...Categorized as:
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![Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus]()
Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions... -
![The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction by R. V. Cassil]()
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction by R. V. Cassil
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTalking about fictionStory form in our time/ Ernest HemingwayRevenge/ Giraldis CambrensisHeart of darkness/ Joseph ConradThe nightingales sing/ Elizabeth ParsonThe owl who was God/ James ThurberTraveling through the dark/ William StaffordGod's country and my people/ Wright MorrisThe egg/ Sherwood AndersonDeath in the woods/ Sherwood AndersonKarl-Yankel/ Isaac BabelSonny's blues/ Janes BaldwinA...Categorized as:
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![Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Summary & Guide by BookRags]()
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Summary & Guide by BookRags
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis study guide consists of approx. 56 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more – everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer... -
![The Island Dwellers: Stories by Jen Silverman]()
The Island Dwellers: Stories by Jen Silverman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor readers of Miranda July, Rebecca Lee, and Mary Gaitskill, a debut short-story collection that is a mesmerizing blend of wit, transgression, and heart. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic... -
![Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard]()
Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA powerful novel about first love, friendships and embracing the uncertainty of an unknowable future, from Sara Barnard, winner of the YA Book Prize.Rosie is ready for her life to begin, because nothing says new life like going to university. After years of waiting and working hard, she's finally on the road that will secure her future... -
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![Lilies by Michel Marc Bouchard]()
Lilies by Michel Marc Bouchard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA revival of a romantic drama, Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien... -
![Swimming Against the Tide by Ryan Taylor, Joshua Harwood]()
Swimming Against the Tide by Ryan Taylor, Joshua Harwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZachI wanted what I thought was the ideal college experience—an excellent school and a great fraternity. Since I was a legacy, it was Zeta from the get-go. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it. In fact, I had so much fun I didn’t pay enough attention to one very important thing—the culture. The very conservative, closed-minded culture... -
![And Then The Gray Heaven by R.E. Katz]()
And Then The Gray Heaven by R.E. Katz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsRE Katz’s And Then the Gray Heaven centers on Jules, whose partner B has recently died in a freak accident. Confronting the red tape of the hospital, the dissociation and cruelty of B’s family, and the unimaginable void now at the center of their lives, Jules and new friend Theo embark on a road trip to bury two-thirds of B’s ashes in the places they most belong... -
![Breaking Free by Isabel Lucero]()
Breaking Free by Isabel Lucero
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt a party on a rival college campus, I drunkenly stumble into a bathroom just as a tall, muscular man steps out of the shower...naked.Instead of fleeing, I stay put and end up having the hottest bathroom hookup with someone whose name I don’t know. Because I’m still in the closet, I don’t talk about what happened that night, glad that it was with a guy who doesn’t live in the same town... -
![The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman]()
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke]()
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke’s work commands today will welcome the reissue in paperback of this extremely perceptive translation of the Notebooks by M. D. Herter Norton...Categorized as:
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![Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiction from Ireland. No 1 Bestseller... -
![Because They Wanted To: Stories by Mary Gaitskill, Sam Potts]()
Because They Wanted To: Stories by Mary Gaitskill, Sam Potts
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of Bad Behavior comes a new compilation of clever and cutting-edge stories propelling readers into a world of men and women where the ways of desire are sometimes distasteful and complex...Categorized as:
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![Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry]()
Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods.. -
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Leave Society by Tao Lin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—as an artist, a son, and a loner. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip... -
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![The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick]()
The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking. Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn... -
![Cousin Calvin by Dick Parker]()
Cousin Calvin by Dick Parker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Liam graduated from high school, he had plans to go to college at UW Superior, in Superior Wisconsin. What he hadn't planned on was living with his Aunt Alma, who was in her eighties, to help take care of her and save money that his parents had put away for his college fund. Liam was lonely, being in a new place. He didn't know anyone and the first few days were hard... -
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Dark Blue Kiss by Hideko_Sunshine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The relationship between ‘Sun’ and ‘Mork’ didn’t start off very well. You can say it was bad. Sun is Mork’s best friend’s older brother, who always found fault with him, accusing him of dragging his younger brother into fights, even though Mork had never been the one who started it. And so, Mork couldn’t help but keep bugging Sun. It turned out they’d fight every time they met... -
![Tonguecat by Peter Verhelst]()
Tonguecat by Peter Verhelst
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTonguecat tells the story of a city's decline into chaos and violence upon the arrival of Prometheus, the titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. In the Netherlands, the novel has been described as "a cross between Jorge Luis Borges's mystical labyrinth and William Gibson's futuristic sprawl" ("The Rights Report")... -
![Wound by Oksana Vasyakina]()
Wound by Oksana Vasyakina
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mother’s ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and griefFrom one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother’s ashes... -
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The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsB.S. Johnson’s lost classic has been showered with praise: New York Magazine named The Unfortunates one of their Ten Best Books of 2008, listed in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2008, and The Los Angeles Times declared it to be “his most daring work.”A legendary 1960s experiment in form, The Unfortunates is B. S...Categorized as:
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