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Delilah: An Under Your Scars Novella by Ariel N. Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSeventeen years after the events in Under Your Scars, Caroline makes her yearly visit to Meridian City and is taken on a heartbreaking and bittersweet journey that gives her something she's been searching for her entire closure.This is a sequel novella to Under Your A Dark Romance Novel, and the series must be read in order...Categorized as:
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![In the End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga]()
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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![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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![The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub]()
The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and visual art exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland... -
![Czarne oceany by Jacek Dukaj]()
Czarne oceany by Jacek Dukaj
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDukaj od nowa skonfigurował klasyczną twardą fantastykę naukową.Mroczna, sugestywna, boleśnie realistyczna wizja społeczeństwa posthumanistycznego.Czarne oceany – przerażająca otchłań myśli ludzkiej.Nicolas Hunt kieruje tajnym projektem rządowym, badającym komercyjne zastosowania telepatii. Rezultaty tych badań zmienią nieodwracalnie nie tylko jego życie, ale także losy całego świata... -
![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... -
![The Understory by Pamela Erens]()
The Understory by Pamela Erens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize... -
![Moon Deluxe by Frederick Barthelme]()
Moon Deluxe by Frederick Barthelme
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrederick Barthelme's wry and wonderful stories have given us a stunning, cautionary, funny, sometimes bleak, and often transcendent portrait of contemporary life in the sprawl of suburban America. Barthelme made his remarkable debut with these tender and affectionate stories, most of which were originally published in The New Yorker... -
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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... -
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Teething by Megha Rao
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA story told in verse, Teething begins when Kochu, a young boy in Kerala, is caught kissing the neighbour’s son. All hell breaks loose, ending in Kochu taking his own life. Years after the scandal, after discovering his suicide note, his oldest sister, Achu, sets out to uncover the mysteries of their dysfunctional family by putting pieces of their past back together...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy]()
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKarim and Maya are lovers. They share a home, they worry about money, and then Maya falls pregnant. But Karim is still finishing his film degree, pushing against his tutors' insistence that his art must be Arab like him. And Maya, working a zero-hours job and fretting about her family, can't find the time to quit smoking, let alone have a child...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Rag: Stories by Maryse Meijer]()
Rag: Stories by Maryse Meijer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Tor.com's Books to Read in February From the author of Heartbreaker, a disquieting collection tracing the destructive consequences of the desire for connectionA man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanizing dogs for a living. A stepbrother so desperately wants to become his stepsibling that he rapes his girlfriend... -
![Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister]()
Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo strangers who should never have met make an unusual connection in this dazzling novel by Lesley Glaister At sixteen, Lamb walked out on her life. It wasn’t much to walk away from: Her parents were dead and she had no brothers or sisters—no one in the world who cared if she lived or died... -
![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... -
![Abundance by Jakob Guanzon]()
Abundance by Jakob Guanzon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLonglisted for the National Book Award for FictionA wrenching debut about the causes and effects of poverty, as seen by a father and son living in a pickupEvicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate...Categorized as:
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AM/PM by Amelia Gray
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf anything's going to save the characters in Amelia Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's a John Mayer concert tee. In AM/PM, impish humor and cutting insight are on full display. Readers tour the lives of 23 characters across 120 stories full of lizard tails, Schrödinger boxes, and volcano love...Categorized as:
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![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... -
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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 Prince of Pleasure by Sandra Marton]()
The Prince of Pleasure by Sandra Marton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE PRINCE OF PLEASURE is a an incredibly exciting, super-sexy, wonderfully romantic, BRAND NEW novel from USA Today Bestselling Author, Sandra Marton! His Royal Highness, Sheikh Khan ibn Zain al Hassad, Crown Prince of Altara, Defender of its Ancient and Honorable Throne, Protector of His People,and Leopard of the Finarian Hills, is a man who holds life and death power in his hands... -
![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... -
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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... -
![The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall]()
The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Sarah Hall comes a collection of unique and disturbing short fiction hailed as a sensation by UK reviewersThe serenity of a Finnish lake turns sinister when a woman's lover does not come back from his swim . . . A bored London housewife discovers a secret erotic club . . -
![Paradise Block by Alice Ash]()
Paradise Block by Alice Ash
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWINNER OF EDGE HILL READERS CHOICE PRIZE 2021'Taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart... A disturbing and moving collection' Chris Power, author of MothersIn Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out at unexpected hours and none of the neighbours are quite what they seem...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories by Aryn Kyle]()
Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories by Aryn Kyle
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsARYN KYLE, whose award-winning novel The God of Animals was hailed as "reason for readers to rejoice" (USA Today), turns her gift for storytelling to the lives of girls and women in this spectacular collection. These eleven stories showcase Kyle’s keen eye for character, her humor, and her uncanny grasp of the loneliness, selfishness, and longing that underlie female experience...Categorized as:
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![We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes]()
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA blackly comic and heart-rending odyssey by the inimitable author of Down to the DirtScrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a teapot. Facing three to five years in a maximum-security prison, Johnny knows this might just be the end of the road... -
![White Nights by Urszula Honek]()
White Nights by Urszula Honek
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhite Nights, the debut short story collection from poet Urszula Honek, is a series of thirteen interconnected stories concerning the various tragedies and misfortunes that befall a group of people who all grew up and live(d) in the same village in the Beskid Niski region, in southern Poland... -
![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... -
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![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... -
![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... -
![Against Gravity by Gary Gibson]()
Against Gravity by Gary Gibson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the late twenty-first century, you will find a very different world. Little is as it used to be, and many are not what they seem.Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of an infamous research facility called the Maze, is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows the Labrat augments are slowly killing him... -
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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... -
![The Flaming Corsage by William Kennedy]()
The Flaming Corsage by William Kennedy
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMoving back and forth between the 1880s and 1912, this sixth novel in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle follows the lives of Edward Daugherty, a first generation Irish American who will break out beyond Albany as a playwright, and Katrina Taylor, a beautiful, seductive woman with complex attitudes towards life...Categorized as:
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![Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll]()
Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJust who is the narrator of João Gilberto Noll’s dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he’s an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman... -
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![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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What a Shame by Abigail Bergstrom
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with something dark' was disconcertingly unanimous.I wondered if this was something you also saw in me, if that was why you left.There is something wrong with Mathilda.She's still reeling from the blow of a gut-punch break up and grieving the death of a loved one.But that's not it...Categorized as:
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