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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date The Answers Catherine Lacey Mary Parsons is broke. Dead broke, really: between an onslaught of medical bills and a mountain of credit card debt, she has been pushed to the brink. Hounded by bill collectors and still plagued by the painful and bizarre symptoms that doctors couldn't diagnose, Mary seeks relief from a holistic treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia... There There Tommy Orange Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking—Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. --Recommended by Paul, City Lights Booksellers How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Essays Alexander Chee's essays have a dark radiance to them, and are among the best examples of sensuality as a mode of intelligence I’ve found. Highly recommended. —Recommended by Vanessa The Mars Room Rachel Kushner Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. —Recommended by Vanessa & Paul Motherhood Sheila Heti —Recommended by Cassie 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 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. —Recommended by Scott & Paul 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 <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>