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Wild Geese By Soula Emmanuel Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781558610132
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Published: Feminist Press - September 12th, 2023

Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire--charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she's overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen.


Peach Pit By Molly Llewellyn (Editor), Kristel Buckley (Editor) Cover Image
By Molly Llewellyn (Editor), Kristel Buckley (Editor)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781950539871
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Published: Dzanc Books - September 12th, 2023

  • Award-winning, bestselling and critically acclaimed writers delivering sharp and searing stories of monstrous and morally gray women, perfect for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Melissa Broder and Roxane Gay
  • Focus on bloggers, bookstagrammers, and booktubers with a sizeable audience, focusing on the editors' ties to the book review community, such as Booksandlala, Kendra Wincheste


My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel By Rasheed Newson Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250833549
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Published: Flatiron Books - August 22nd, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY PRIZE FOR GAY FICTION FINALIST


Tomb Sweeping: Stories By Alexandra Chang Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062951847
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Published: Ecco - August 8th, 2023

A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships—from the award-winning writer of Days of Distraction


Cat Brushing By Jane Campbell Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802161819
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Published: Grove Press - August 15th, 2023

War Is Not My Mother By VI Khi Nao Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781955904766
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Published: Clash Books - August 22nd, 2023

A series of poetic remixes, WAR IS NOT MY MOTHER might be considered a form of spirit possession.


Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution By R. F. Kuang Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780063021433
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Published: Harper Voyager - August 29th, 2023

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War  


Tell Me I'm An Artist By Chelsea Martin Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781593767570
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Published: Soft Skull - August 1st, 2023

"Portrait of the artist as a broke and brilliant, hungry and funny young woman" (Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want), this hilarious and incisive coming-of-age novel about an art student from a poor family struggling to find her place in a new social class of rich, well-connected peers is perfect for fans of Elif Batuman’s The Idiot and Weike Wang’s Chemistry


The Forest Brims Over: A Novel By Maru Ayase, Haydn Trowell (Translated by) Cover Image
By Maru Ayase, Haydn Trowell (Translated by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781640095373
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Published: Counterpoint - July 25th, 2023

A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband’s novels—this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the literary world


All This Could Be Different: A Novel By Sarah Thankam Mathews Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593489147
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Published: Penguin Books - August 1st, 2023

2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more


The Marriage Portrait: A novel By Maggie O'Farrell Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593315088
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Published: Vintage - July 11th, 2023

WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.


Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories By Meng Jin Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780063160729
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Published: Mariner Books - July 4th, 2023

“A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and regret over what might have been, to what it means to be (and to be considered) an American." -- San Francisco Chronicle


Lessons: A novel By Ian McEwan Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593468630
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Published: Vintage - July 25th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals.


How to Be Eaten: A Novel By Maria Adelmann Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316450850
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Published: Back Bay Books - July 25th, 2023

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.

In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire.


Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel By Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (Translated by) Cover Image
By Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (Translated by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063278677
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Published: Harper Perennial - July 4th, 2023

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. 


Always Coming Home: A Novel By Ursula K. Le Guin, Shruti Swamy (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Ursula K. Le Guin, Shruti Swamy (Introduction by)
$24.99
ISBN: 9780358726920
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Published: Harper Perennial - June 27th, 2023

“One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . A study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like—for society and for the art of storytelling."—The Millions


The Golden Enclaves: A Novel (The Scholomance #3) By Naomi Novik Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593158371
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Published: Del Rey - June 27th, 2023

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.

FINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste, Publishers Weekly


Gods of Want: Stories By K-Ming Chang Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593241608
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Published: One World - June 20th, 2023

Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in “a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)—from the National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary


Mr. Breakfast By Jonathan Carroll Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781685890889
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Published: Melville House - June 20th, 2023

From one of the great modern masters of the fantastic, “A beautiful, brilliant, meditation on art, love, inspiration and what makes life worthwhile."-- Neil Gaiman


Cult Classic: A Novel By Sloane Crosley Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250867179
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Published: Picador - June 6th, 2023

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 at Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Literary Hub, The Millions, and more!


Lapvona: A Novel By Ottessa Moshfegh Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593300282
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Published: Penguin Books - June 20th, 2023

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet