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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date The Sarah Book Scott McClanahan  Scott McClanahan is one of the most important voices in American literature right now. His paragraphs get stuck in your head like your favorite songs. This book is manic, sweaty, kind, and human. —Recommended by Joey Black Swans Stories Eve Babitz "He was not remote, elevated, or windy enough for me; by God, I liked my men humiliating or at least impossible to get to..." Eve Babitz is full of such delights. Come for the gossip, stay for the sentences. —Recommended by Vanessa & Cassie The Changeling Victor LaValle When Apollo Kagwa's father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word IMPROBABILIA. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, are settling into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. The Idiot Elif Batuman The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin Sickness devours our narrator as she retraces the steps that led her to this strange hospital bed. Never has a title been more apt to describe a scalding and blurry reading experience, the idea of memory twisted and tangled throughout. —Recommended by Cassie Modern Love Constance De Jong Sexy-cool-weirdos, delight! A read for those both disenchanted and lovelorn. Reminiscent of Cortazar and Kathy Acker. —Recommended by Ivy Houses of Ravicka Renee Gladman From a foremost literary imagination; the reader (re)enters the strange city-state of Ravicka—follows the city's only comptroller as they examine the strange topography and architecture of the city. Truly something else.—Recommended by Jared The Vanishing Princess Stories Jenny Diski Strange, sneaky, sexy, smart. Snap it up. —Recommended by Vanessa Christodora A Novel Tim Murphy A captivating portrait of how ambition, compulsion, and trauma form and re-form the lives of us all, Christodora is a closely observed panoramic novel that powerfully evokes the danger, chaos, and wonder of New York City—and the strange and moving ways in which its dwellers' lives can intersect. —Recommended by Paul Pachinko min-jin lee A generational-historical epic in the grand tradition, lovingly drawn and flawlessly executed. Don't be fooled by its size—before you know it, you'll be slowly flipping the final pages, willing them to multiply. Recommended by Erin, City Lights Books Lucky Boy a novel Shanthi Sekaran A prescient novel, the Bay Area's Shanthi Sekaran's Lucky Boy is the one book I'd require someone to read to the president (because, ya know . . . ) before he says or tweets one more horrifying thing about immigration policy in the U.S. —Recommended by Stacey Writing to Save a Life The Louis Till File John Edgar Wideman A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé" (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis. —Recommended by Scott Mortal Trash Poems Kim Addonizio Chew with your mouth closed and read this book.  —Recommended by Ryan Mrs. Caliban Rachel Ingalls Who doesn't secretly want a frog monster boyfriend? —Recommended by Cassie & Vanessa <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>