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We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad • 2025
Interesting Facts about Space
Emily Austin • 2024
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin • 2021
Madwoman
Chelsea Bieker • 2025
Animal: A Novel
Lisa Taddeo • 2022
Earthlings: A Novel
Sayaka Murata • 2021
Stargazer
Laurie Petrou • 2022
Greta & Valdin
REBECCA K. REILLY • 2024
She's Always Hungry
Clark Eliza • 2024
On the Savage Side
Tiffany McDaniel • 2024
Penance
Clark Eliza • 2023
Blue Hunger
Viola Di Grado • 2023
Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
Ann Napolitano • 2023
Pizza Girl
Frazier Jean Kyoung • 2021
Named a Vogue, Esquire, NPR, Marie Claire, and Refinery29 Best Book of the Year. Perfect for fans of Normal People and Fleabag<br/><br/>Great inventiveness, unfailing intelligence and empathy, and best of all a rare and shimmering wit’ Richard Ford<br/>A moving story about an unforgettable young woman trying to find her place in the world…<br/><br/>Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl, our dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all.<br/><br/>Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighbourhood.<br/><br/>As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange and ultimately heartbreaking ways.<br/><br/>Bold, tender, and unexpected, Pizza Girl is a moving and funny portrait of a flawed, unforgettable young woman as she tries to find her place in the world.<br/><br/>‘A blend of Normal People and Convenience Store Woman … pacy and unexpected’ Cosmopolitan<br/><br/>‘A unique, satisfying read … can be devoured in one setting’ Vice<br/><br/>‘Utterly moving’ Stylist<br/><br/>‘A thought provoking debut … I loved it’ Daily Mail<br/><br/>’Fresh, funny, bittersweet’ New York Times<br/><br/>‘Bristles with biting wit and optimism, each page a feast of Cheeto-fingered heart, humor, and lyricism’ Esquire<br/><br/>‘Funny, fast-moving and essential… You will devour it’ Lara Williams, author of Supper Club
Our Wives Under The Sea
Julia Armfield • 2022
Girl, Interrupted.
Susanna Kaysen • 2000
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
The Vegetarian
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>
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder • 2023
La laurea in un'università prestigiosa, un certo talento artistico, l'impiego come direttrice di una galleria locale. Poi, due anni fa, è arrivato il bambino. E dopo un disastroso tentativo di tornare al lavoro – il lavoro dei suoi sogni! – affidando il piccolo all'asilo nido, hanno deciso che era meglio se lei rimaneva a casa. E adesso il marito è sempre via per affari, la chiama da lontane stanze d'albergo, e lei si sente sola, esausta. Fino a che una notte succede qualcosa. Il suo corpo inizia a cambiare, la nuca si ricopre di una peluria sempre più folta. I canini si affilano. Sul fondoschiena le spunta una cosa che, sembra assurdo, pare proprio una coda… Sempre più smarrita e in preda a istinti animaleschi, la donna cerca informazioni su quello che le sta accadendo e si imbatte in uno strano libro, Guida illustrata alle donne magiche. Si trova così invischiata in un enigmatico gruppo di mamme che potrebbero non essere esattamente ciò che sembrano. Un romanzo scandalosamente originale che parla di arte, potere e femminilità sotto le vesti di una fiaba caustica. Un libro nel quale riconoscersi, che vi farà venir voglia di ululare. E dovreste farlo. Dovreste ululare quanto vi pare e piace.
A Good Happy Girl
Marissa Higgins • 2024
Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung • 2021
Disturbance
Jenna Clake • 2023
Reservoir Bitches
Dahlia de la Cerda • 2024
Black Swans: Stories
Eve Babitz • 2018
Lapvona: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022
Rest and Be Thankful
Emma Glass • 2020
Chlorine: A Novel
Jade Song • 2023
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies… a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming.<br/><br/>Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach is her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life.<br/>But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers. Creatures that called sailors to their doom. That dragged them down and drowned them. That feasted on their flesh. The creature that she’s always longed to become: the mermaid.<br/>Ren aches to be in the water. She dreams of the scent of chlorine, the feel of it on her skin. And she will do anything she can to make a life for herself where she can be free. No matter the pain. No matter what anyone else thinks. No matter how much blood she has to spill.
Bunny: A Novel
Mona Awad • 2020
Ripe: A Novel
Sarah Rose Etter • 2023
Boy Parts
Eliza Clark • 2020
