My Evergrowing Book List
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Fiction
The Arcane Arts A Novel
S. D. Coverly · 2026
Sugar
Mia Ballard · 2024
Metamorphoses
Ovid · 2022
Eating Ashes
Brenda Navarro · 2026
Wet Paint
Chloë Ashby · 2022
The Safekeep
Yael Van Der Wouden · 2024
The Story Collector
Evie Woods
Disappoint Me
Nicola Dinan · 2025
The Witches of New York
Ami McKay · 2017
Death Goes Dancing
Mabel Esther Allan · 2014
They're Going to Love You A Novel
Meg Howrey · 2022
The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott · 2017
<p><b>A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers</b>—<b>a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.</b><br><br>On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife—that “the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.<br><br>In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermott’s <i>The Ninth Hour</i> is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.</p>
Eurotrash
Christian Kracht · 2024
"Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has returned to care for his eighty-year-old mother after her discharge from a psychiatric institution. Confronting the dark shadows of his family's past--particularly his grandfather's strong ties with the Nazi regime--and struggling to navigate the emotionally wrenching terrain of his relationship with his mother, he sets off on a road trip with her. As they traverse Switzerland together in a hired cab, mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune, stuffed in a large plastic bag, to random strangers. By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, and brilliantly rendered in English by prize-winning translator Daniel Bowles, Eurotrash tells an intensely personal and unsparingly critical story of contemporary culture; a story that shows us a writer at the pinnacle of his powers of insight and observation"--Amazon.
Very Impressive for Your Age
Eleanor Kirk · 2025
"Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn is well on her way to becoming an international opera star. . . until one night, mid-performance, when she inexplicably loses her voice. With no cure in sight, she's forced to put her dreams on pause, flying back to her hometown to wait out her recovery. Stuck in limbo, Evelyn balances her time attending overpriced doctors' appointments and accidentally-on-purpose running into her ex on the street outside his apartment. Then she discovers that her old high school is hiring a debating coach (no experience needed!) and realises this might just be her ticket back to relevance. While re-entering the gates of her alma mater is a welcome reminder of the glory days, being faced with a bunch of starry-eyed teenagers, who haven't had their dreams blown to pieces yet, makes clear just how thin the line can be between drive and delusion--forcing Evelyn to consider whether she could ever be truly satisfied living a life away from the spotlight."--Publisher.
The Phantom Of The Opera
Gaston Leroux · 2023
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2019
Greta & Valdin
Rebecca K Reilly · 2024
Ripe: A Novel
Sarah Rose Etter · 2023
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg · 2022
The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, and a new afterword by the author<br/><br/>A Penguin Classic<br/><br/>After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her “normal” life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge.<br/><br/>A semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar--a very different portrait of psychological breakdown--I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.<br/><br/>For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Lamb: A Novel
Lucy Rose · 2025
A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.<br/>"The Lamb . . . is not out until February but it has already created a buzz."—Sunday Times<br/>“This is the book I've been waiting for. Dark, twisted, and utterly enthralling, The Lamb is a novel I will never forget.”—Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn<br/>From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary queer folktale about a mother and daughter living in the woods, for fans of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, and Julia Armfield.<br/>Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember.<br/>When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.<br/>But Mama’s want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her bid for freedom.<br/>With this gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts—and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.
Hungerstone
Kat Dunn · 2025
The Exhibition of Persephone Q: A Novel
Jessi Jezewska Stevens · 2020
<p><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors’ Choice</b><br><b>A <i>WALL STREET JOURNAL</i> AND <i>VOGUE</i> MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020<br></b><br>"<b>A triumph of tone and intelligence. Percy Q's perspective is skewed and searching at once, and through her eyes, we see afresh not only New York's post-9/11 landscape but also the world of art, and love, and the process of becoming." —Rivka Galchen, author of <i>Atmospheric Disturbances</i> <br> </b><br>Percy is pregnant. She hasn’t told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband—certainly she <i>means </i>to—but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now, instead of sleeping, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood, all the while fretting over her marriage, her impending motherhood, and the sinister ways the city is changing.<br><br>Amid this alienation—from her husband, home, and rapidly changing body—a package arrives. In it: an exhibition catalog for a photography show. The photographs consist of a series of digitally manipulated images of a woman lying on a bed in a red room. It takes a moment for even Percy to notice that the woman is herself . . . but no one else sees the resemblance.<br><br>Percy must now come to grips with the fundamental question of identity in the digital age: To what extent do we own our own image, and to what extent is that image shaped by the eyes of others?<br><br>Capturing perfectly the haunted atmosphere of Manhattan immediately after 9/11—and the simmering insanity of America ever since—Jessi Jezewska Stevens's <i>The Exhibition of Persephone Q </i>is a darkly witty satire about how easy it is to lose ownership of our own selves.</p>
The Book of Eve
Carmen Boullosa · 2023
A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa.<br/><br/>What if everything they’ve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam’s rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel...<br/><br/>In brilliant prose, Carmen Boullosa offers a take on the Book of Genesis that dismantles patriarchy and rebuilds our understanding of the world—from the origin of gastronomy, to the domestication of animals, to the cultivation of land and pleasure—all through the feminine gaze. Based on this exploration, at times both joyful and painful, The Book of Eve takes a tour through the stories we’ve been told since childhood, which have helped to foster (and cement) the absurd idea that woman is the companion, complement, and even accessory to man, opening the door to criminal violence against women. Boullosa refutes this entrenched, dangerous perspective in her foundational and brazen feminist novel.
Perfume and Pain: A Novel
Anna Dorn · 2024
Eileen: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2016
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers · 2021
Breakdown
Cathy Sweeney · 2023
One Winter Morning On An Ordinary Day In Contemporary Dublin, An Ordinary Middle-class Woman Wakes Up In Her Ordinary Suburban Home. Her Husband Is Next To Her In Bed, Her Teenage Children Sleeping Nearby. Without Thinking Much About It, She Walks Out The Front Door And Never Comes Back. She Travels First By Car, Then Train, Then Ferry. Along The Way, She Finds Herself In Service Stations And Shopping Centres, Hotel Bars And Hairdressers - And In The Beds Of Strange Men. Finally, Forty-eight Hours Later, Alone In A Cottage In Wales, The Woman Faces Up To What She Has Been Ignoring Inside Herself, Her Family, Modern Society: Signs Of Breakdown. From One Of Ireland's Most Provocative And Admired Writers, This Is A Story Of Rage And Reckoning, Joy And Transformation. Cathy Sweeney.
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth · 2023
The Odyssey
Homer · 2018
Nonfiction
Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict
Peggy Guggenheim · 1979
Inheritocracy It's Time to Talk about the Bank of Mum and Dad
Eliza Filby · 2024
Quit Like a Woman
Holly Whitaker · 2019
The Social Stratification of English in New York City
William Labov · 2006
Joan of Arc: In her own words
Joan of Arc · 1996
<p>The only available source for the exact words of Joan of Arc, compiled from the transcript of her trials and rearranged as an autobiography by Willard Trask.</p>
The Art Thief
Michael Finkel · 2024
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney · 2018
Dopamine Nation Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dr. Anna Lembke · 2023
