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Maeve Fly
CJ Leede • 2023
New Animal
Ella Baxter • 2022
Monstrilio A Novel
Gerardo Sámano Córdova • 2023
Woman, Eating
Claire Kohda • 2022
"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But Lydia can't eat any of this. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated. Then there are the humans: the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men who follow her after dark, and Ben, a goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. If Lydia is to find a way to exist in the world, she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans. Before any of this, however, she must eat."--Publisher.
Briefly, A Delicious Life: A Novel
Nell Stevens • 2022
Monarch
Candice Wuehle • 2023
"Candice Wuehle's irresistibly weird debut novel Monarch is the kind of book that you want to start reading again immediately after turning the last page—not just to trace the conspiracy at its heart, but to appreciate how its kaleidoscope of beauty pageants, Y2K anxieties, famous dead girls, and deep state machinations synthesizes into an exploration of what makes up a self . . . Poetic, haunting."—Kristen Martin, NPR After waking up with a strange taste in her mouth and mysterious bruises, former child pageant star Jessica Clink unwittingly begins an investigation into a nefarious deep state underworld. Equipped with the eccentric education of her father, Dr. Clink (a professor of Boredom Studies and the founder of an elite study group known as the Devil’s Workshop), Jessica uncovers a disquieting connection between her former life as a beauty queen and an offshoot of Project MKUltra known as MONARCH. As Jessica moves closer to the truth, she begins to suspect the involvement of everyone around her, including her own mother, Grethe (a Norwegian pageant queen turned occult American wellness guru for suburban housewives). With the help of Christine (her black-lipsticked riot grrrl babysitter and confidante), Jessica sets out to take down Project MONARCH. More importantly, she must discover if her first love, fellow teen queen Veronica Marshall, was genuine or yet another deep state plant. Merging iconic true crime stories of the ’90s (Lorena Bobbitt, Nicole Brown Simpson, and JonBenét Ramsey) with theories of human consciousness, folklore, and a perennial cultural fixation with dead girls, MONARCH questions the shadow sides of self-concept: Who are you if you don’t know yourself?
The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Angela Carter • 2015
How to Be Eaten
Maria Adelmann • 2023
Godshot
Chelsea Bieker • 2021
Root Rot
Saskia Nislow • 2025
Blob
Maggie Su • 2025
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan • 2013
<b>"If you’ve never read it, read it now." —Arianna Huffington, <i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i> </b><br><p>Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of <i>The Feminine Mystique</i>. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, <i>The Feminine Mystique</i> is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins.</p>
She's Always Hungry
Eliza Clark • 2024
Stargazer
Laurie Petrou • 2022
The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld • 2020
The Vegetarian A Novel
Han Kang • 2016
<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>
My Sister, the Serial Killer A Novel
Oyinkan Braithwaite • 2019
Animal: A Novel
Lisa Taddeo • 2021
"Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child--that has haunted her every waking moment--while forging the power to finally strike back."--
Ripe A Novel
Sarah Rose Etter • 2023
Convenience Store Woman: A Novel
Sayaka Murata • 2019
Grey Dog
Elliott Gish • 2024
Butter A Novel of Food and Murder
Asako Yuzuki • 2024
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami • 2021
Perfume and Pain A Novel
Anna Dorn • 2024
Waiting for Ted
Marieke Bigg • 2022
Angel Meat
Laura Lee Bahr • 2017
Nightbitch: A Novel
Rachel Yoder • 2022
Drugs Are Nice A Post-Punk Memoir
Lisa Crystal Carver • 2005
Living Dead Girl
Elizabeth Scott • 2009
<i>Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. <br> <br> Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. <br> <br> Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.</i> <br><br> When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. <br><br> Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. <br> <br> This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.
Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman • 2023
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Elizabeth Wurtzel • 2017
Girl, Interrupted A Memoir
Susanna Kaysen • 2013
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Boy Parts
Eliza Clark • 2020
How to Kill Your Family
Bella Mackie • 2021
The Collector
John Fowles • 2004
Girls on Fire: A Novel
Robin Wasserman • 2016
Love Letters to a Serial Killer
Tasha Coryell • 2025
<b>An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller.</b><br><br>Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that’s on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It’s the perfect outlet for her pent-up frustration and rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first.<br><br>Until William writes back.<br><br>Hannah’s interest in the case goes from curiosity to obsession, leaving space for nothing else as her life implodes around her. After she loses her job, she heads to Georgia to attend the trial and befriends other true-crime junkies like herself. When a fifth woman is discovered murdered, the jury has no choice but to find William not guilty, and Hannah is the first person he calls upon his release. The two of them quickly fall into a routine of domestic bliss.<br><br>Well, as blissful as one can feel while secretly investigating their partner for serial murder. . . .
Being Lolita: A Memoir
Alisson Wood • 2021
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Jane Austen • 2015
These Violent Delights
Micah Nemerever • 2025
The Girls A Novel
Emma Cline • 2017
Tampa
Alissa Nutting • 2014
A Touch of Jen
Beth Morgan • 2023
The Lamb: A Novel
Lucy Rose • 2025
Big Swiss: A Novel
Jen Beagin • 2023
All's Well: A Novel
Mona Awad • 2022
Milk Fed: A Novel
Melissa Broder • 2021
My Husband: A Novel
Maud Ventura • 2023
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion • 1970
The Lover
Marguerite Duras • 1998
Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley • 1986
The Princess of 72nd Street
Elaine Kraf • 2025
Eileen: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2016
Sharp object
Gillian Flynn • 2019
Sono passati otto anni da quando Camille, giornalista di cronaca nera a Chicago, ha lasciato Wind Gap, la piccola e soffocante cittadina del Missouri in cui è cresciuta. Ma ora è il suo lavoro a chiederle di tornare: deve seguire il caso della piccola Natalie Keene, scomparsa poco dopo la sparizione di un'altra bambina poi rinvenuta strangolata nel letto di un torrente. Anché il cadavere di Natalie viene presto ritrovato, e l'intera comunità di Wind Gap deve arrendersi all'evidenza che le bimbe sono vittime della stessa mano: è un unico, macabro dettaglio a rivelarlo. Camille si trova così a indagare sul caso, provando nel contempo ad arginare i ricordi e i motivi che l'hanno spinta a fuggire da quella cittadina bigotta e pettegola. Ma soprattutto è costretta ad affrontare di nuovo sua madre, donna fredda e manipolatrice. Il romanzo di Gillian Flynn indaga i risvolti più oscuri dei legami familiari e mette in scena una protagonista che indaga l'inferno con occhi nuovi.
Chlorine: A Novel
Jade Song • 2023
Mister Magic: A Novel
Kiersten White • 2023
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Kiersten White • 2019
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • 2023
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2003
Undead Girl Gang
Lily Anderson • 2018
I Am Made of Death
Kelly Andrew • 2025
Ruinous Love Trilogy Complete 3 Book Collection by Brynne Weaver – Includes Butcher & Blackbird Leather & Lark and Scythe & Sparrow
Brynne Weaver • 2025
Pretty Dead Queens
Alexa Donne • 2024
The new homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first unsolved murder at Seaview High. From the critically acclaimed author of The Ivies comes a nonstop YA thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killer, and the teen who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth. "Utterly savage." –Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of They’ll Never Catch Us "Hand this fast-paced thriller filled with plenty of twists and drama to fans of Holly Jackson or Karen M. McManus." -SLJ A 2023 Edgar Award Nominee! After the death of her mom (screw cancer), seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother, a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface, life is utterly ordinary in the California coastal town . . . until the homecoming queen is murdered. And she’s not Seaview’s first pretty dead queen. With a copycat killer on the loose, Cecelia throws herself into the investigation, determined to crack the case like the heroines in her grandmother’s books. But the more Cecelia digs into the town’s secrets, the more she worries that her own mystery might not have a storybook ending.
Strange Unearthly Things
Kelly Creagh • 2023
<b>A hauntingly romantic paranormal Jane Eyre reimagining, by the author of <i>Phantom Heart</i>!</b><br><br>Eighteen-year-old Jane Reye is a psychic artist. She draws what she sees, and what she sees are spirits and the supernatural. Growing up orphaned, she’s now of legal age and can no longer return to the girls' school she’s called home for most of her life. Lost and alone after the death of her lifelong friend, she receives an invitation to partake in a study at the English manor Fairfax Hall: an investigation of the property that requires her specific area of expertise. Upon arrival, Jane understands this will be no ordinary study when she meets Elias Thornfield, the elusive proprietor of the estate, a boy her age, roguishly handsome, who dons a mysterious eye patch. During the study it becomes clear that something is amiss—something having to do with Elias and the spiritual activity taking place around the manor. Turning to her art to unravel the mystery, Jane is shocked to find that her talents—and her growing affection for Elias—could be the key to saving him from a horrible fate.
Matchmaking for Psychopaths
Tasha Coryell • 2025
Dogs of Summer A Novel
Andrea Abreu • 2022
Brutes: A Novel
Dizz Tate • 2023
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Penguin Classics)
Joan Lindsay • 2017
Dear Laura
Gemma Amor • 2019
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers • 2021
My Heart is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones • 2021
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica • 2020
<b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.</b><br><br>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.<br> <br>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
Alice Robb • 2023
Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire • 2020
Amy Chelsea Stacie dee
Mary G. Thompson • 2017
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous • 2016
Big Swiss A Novel
Jen Beagin • 2023
The Starving Saints
Caitlin Starling • 2025
Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman • 2012
Las Indignas / The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica • 2023
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris • 2009
