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Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado • 2017
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Alissa Nutting • 2018
I Love Dick
Chris Kraus • 2006
Mrs. Caliban
Rachel Ingalls • 1983
Speedboat
Renata Adler • 2013
Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories
Taeko Kono • 1996
The Push A Novel
Ashley Audrain • 2021
Haunted A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk • 2006
Pew A Novel
Catherine Lacey • 2020
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke • 2020
Motherthing
Ainslie Hogarth • 2022
In the Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami • 2006
The Doloriad
Missouri Williams • 2022
Hangsaman
Shirley Jackson • 1976
Timid, seventeen-year-old Natalie confronts horror after coming under the power of a rebellious, mysterious girl
The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw • 2023
“Khaw’s poetic prose and stylish approach to gore make it a blood-soaked, unforgettable gem.” —The New York Times From Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth, comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairy tale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself. A Best Horror Book of 2023 (The New York Times, Library Journal) • A Best Book of 2023 (NPR) • A Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award Finalist! • An Indie Next Pick You may think you know how the fairy tale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three “saints” who control them. The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive. Includes the bonus short story, "And In Our Daughters, We Find a Voice", set in the same universe. Also by Cassandra Khaw: The Library at Hellebore Nothing But Blackened Teeth A Song for Quiet Hammers on Bone The Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Dead Animals
Phoebe Stuckes • 2024
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. 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. 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. 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.
Women Without Men
Shahrnush Parsipur • 2000
Pizza Girl: A Novel
Jean Kyoung Frazier • 2021
Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions)
Rachel Ingalls • 2021
Brat: A Ghost Story
Gabriel Smith • 2024
`Full of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.' Financial Times `A moving coming-of-age family story' Observer 'Iconic', Radio 1I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination room. Gabriel's skin is falling off. His dad is dead. He owes his editor a novel. His girlfriend won't answer his calls. Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel's sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents' old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there's a hideous man in the garden. Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,Bratis a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more. From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before. `This original, clever story is brilliant on grief, madness and creativity. It's beautifully written, hilarious and heart-breaking. I raced through it.' Daily Mail ?`For readers looking for something that will grip you from start to finish,Bratis sure to be your breath of fresh air. The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won't soon shake.' Chicago Review of Books `Smith's picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabriel's foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel's brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.' Booklist `[Smith's] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.'Kirkus `It's a book about loss and the anxiety of the modern age, tinged with humor and deep insight that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.' Town & Country 'Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.Bratis so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.'Rachel Connolly, author ofLazy City 'Messy with glitched realities and body horror,Bratbreathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air asInland EmpireandUbik. It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages.'Ed Park, author ofSame Bed Different Dreams 'Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.Bratis a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.'Jordan Castro, author ofThe Novelist 'Gabriel Smith's jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace's sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is aPortrait of the Artist as a Young Manfor a new, quaking generation.Bratwill unnerve and seduce you.'Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted 'Smith's picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabriel's foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel's brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.'Booklist '[Smith's] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.'Kirkus.
The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Mikhail Bulgakov • 2016
The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica • 2025
Victorian Psycho
Virginia Feito • 2025
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman • 2019
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn • 2013
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn • 2009
Piglet A Novel
Lottie Hazell • 2025
Apartment 16
Adam Nevill · 2010
<p><b>Some doors are better left closed . . .</b><br><br>In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever.<br><br>A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago.<br><br>Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . .</p>
Exiles
Mason Coile · 2025
Honeysuckle
Bar Fridman-Tell · 2026
<b><i>The Bear and the Nightingale</i> meets <i>Weyward</i> in this enchanting, deeply compelling debut about love and power, autonomy and consent.</b><br/><br/>Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left in peace, his sister made him a playmate-Daye, a girl woven from flowers and words. And for the first time, this boy, Rory, had a friend.<br/><br/>Rory couldn't be happier, until he learns that Daye is a short-lived creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And every time Daye falls apart might be her last.<br/><br/>As Rory and Daye grow older and the line between friendship and romance begins to blur, Rory becomes desperate to break this cycle of bloom and decay. But the farther Rory pushes his research and experiments to lengthen Daye's existence, the more Daye begins to wonder just how much control she really has over her own life.<br/><br/>As a loose reimagining of the story of Blodeuwedd from Welsh mythology, <i>Honeysuckle</i> is an entrancing, inventive, and unsettling debut.
Loss Protocol
Paul McAuley · 2026
<p>Eight years after the catastrophic downfall of the cult his sister Izzy had joined, Marc Winters has at last found a refuge from unwanted attention. The wildlife ranger of a small, unremarkable island, he's quietly helping to preserve what survives of nature in a world wracked by climate change and chaotic weather, and trying his best to put his past behind him.<br><br>But then his narrowboat is burgled, the counterterrorism police come calling, and everything he thought he knew about the cult and his sister's fate is turned upside down. A cabal of so-called deep dreamers has revived the cult's crazy belief that the world could be healed by collective dreams fuelled by psychotropic mushrooms. They appear to think that Winters possesses information crucial to their success, and when he tries to discover more about them, he becomes inextricably entangled in plans that challenge his very existence.<br><br> Blending noir-inflected conspiracies and double-crosses, fantasies of dream science and elegiac evocations of a depleted world, <i>Loss Protocol</i>'s chimerical story keeps its secrets until the last page</p>
The Brides
Charlotte Cross · 2026
<p><i><b>'Come to me, and be mine for eternity'</b></i><br> <br> 1903. John Seward, survivor of Count Dracula's murderous campaign ten years before, admits a new patient to his Oxford asylum. But the case resurrects horrors he's spent a decade trying to bury.<br> <br> 1884. Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving Aunt Reka, but Reka is haunted by something darker than sorrow. The chilling truth pushes Mafalda to seek comfort in her secret love, Lucy, who hurries from London with chaperone Eliza and lady's maid Alice.<br> <br> But Alice, blessed and cursed with the Sight, is tormented by terrifying visions. When her mistress Eliza falls prey to a disturbing wasting illness, the healing waters of Transylvania seem to offer hope. At a local nobleman's invitation, the women set out for Castle Dracula.<br> <br> In the depths of the forest, miles from civilization, their host reveals his true intentions; a monstrous ambition which will tear the women apart.<br> <br> <b>And not all of them will survive.</b></p>
Stag Dance A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters · 2025
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to <i>Detransition, Baby</i> . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—<i>People</i></b><br><b><br>“Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>All Fours</i></b><br><br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i> EDITORS’ CHOICE • A <i>VULTURE </i>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)</b><br><br>In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.<br><br>In <i>Stag Dance,</i> the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition.<br><br>Three startling stories surround <i>Stag Dance</i>: “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” imagines a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend. In “The Chaser,” a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last story, “The Masker,” a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between two guides: a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.<br><br>Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan, <i>Stag Dance</i> provokes, unsettles, and delights.
Maneater
Ellie Graves · 2026
<p><b>Revenge is tough to swallow...</b><br> <br> Things for Renee Landis are finally looking up. She just quit her dead-end job at a chicken shop after landing the coveted role of junior chef at London's pristine NOVA restaurant.<br> <br> But it's not the restaurant that draws Renee in - it's the executive chef. Gracie Fitzgerald is as legendary as she is secretive; she's known not only for her succulent, signatures dishes, but also the notorious way she guards her kitchen.<br> <br> When Renee stays late after work one night, she stumbles across something horrific in the walk-in freezer. Something, according to Gracie, she wasn't supposed to see - yet. As Gracie takes Renee through her plans for the restaurant, the young chef will have to decide if she's going to eat - or be eaten.</p>
Hungerstone
Kat Dunn · 2025
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <b><br> "I didn't like this, I LOVED it." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Atmosphere</i> and <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</i></b><br> <br> <b>A <i>Rolling Stone</i> 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year * An NBC Queer Summer Beach Read to Devour * A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of the Year * A Scary Mommy 11 Most Anticipated Books of the Year * A <i>Them</i> 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year * A Goodreads Editors' Top Pick of the Month * A <i>Town & Country </i>Must Read Book of the Winter</b> * <b>A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year * A Fable Most Anticipated Read of the Year * A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Horror Novel of the Year * A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of the Year</b><br> <b><br> A compulsive feminist reworking of <i>Carmilla</i>, the queer novella that inspired <i>Dracula</i>.</b><br> <br> It's the height of the Industrial Revolution and ten years into Lenore's marriage to steel magnate Henry, their relationship has soured. When Henry's ambitions take them from London to the remote British moorlands to host a hunting party, a shocking carriage accident brings the mysterious Carmilla into their lives. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night. Carmilla, who stirs up something deep within Lenore. And before long, girls from the local villages fall sick, consumed by a terrible hunger . . .<br> <br> As the day of the hunt draws closer, Lenore begins to unravel, questioning the role she has been playing all these years. Torn between regaining her husband's affection and the cravings Carmilla has awakened, soon Lenore will uncover a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk.<br> <br> <b>"<i>Hungerstone</i> is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel." --Ava Reid, #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>A Study in Drowning</i> and <i>Lady Macbeth</i></b>
Annie Bot A Novel
Sierra Greer · 2025
<p>WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD</p> <p>Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American, Harper's Bazaar and NPR. Named a Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Elle. Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction.</p> <p>"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." -- Esquire</p> <p>"Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." -- New Scientist</p> <p>For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.</p> <p>Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard.</p> <p>She's learning, too.</p> <p>Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie's relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?</p> <p>"Annie Bot is a book to hold close to your heart when the walls start closing in." -- Washington Post</p>
Patricia Wants to Cuddle A Novel
Samantha Allen · 2023
<b>One of the Best Books of 2022<br> NPR * <i>Them</i> * <i>LitHub</i> * <i>CrimeReads</i> * <i>Book Rio</i>t * <i>Chicago Review of Books</i></b><br> <br> "A <b>one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy</b> for people who watch <i>The Bachelor</i> and <i>The X-Files</i> back-to-back." <i><b>―Kirkus Reviews</b></i><br> <br> <b>On this season of <i>The Catch</i>, contestants must compete for love. And their lives.</b><br> <br> When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and, of course, the salacious drama eager viewers nationwide tune in to devour. Each woman came on <i>The Catch</i> for her own reasons―brand sponsorships, followers, and, yes, even love―and they've all got their eyes steadfastly trained on their respective prizes.<br> <br> Enter Patricia, a temperamental and woefully misunderstood local living alone in the dark, verdant woods, and desperate for connection. Through twists as unexpected as they are wildly entertaining, the self-absorbed cast and jaded crew each make her acquaintance atop the island's tallest and most desolate peak, finding themselves at the center of an action-packed thriller that is far from scripted―and only a few will make the final cut.<br> <br> A whirlwind romp careening toward a last-girl-standing conclusion, and a scathing indictment of contemporary American media culture, <i>Patricia Wants to Cuddle</i> is also a love story: between star-crossed lesbians who rise above their intolerant town, a deeply ambivalent woman and her budding self-actualization, and a group of misfit islanders forging community against all odds.
Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash · 2026
<p><b>'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham</b><br> <br> <b>'Hilarious' Megan Nolan</b><br> <br> <b>'Fiendishly readable' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br> <br> ==<br> <b>Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.</b><br> <br> For the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. <b>Abigail</b>, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. <b>Louise</b>, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, <b>Harper</b>, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone - or something - is monitoring the town's citizens.<br> <br> Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy - one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.<br> <br> <b>The instant <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller</b><br> <br> Readers are loving LOST LAMBS<br> <b>'What a ROMP! The best way to start your reading year for 2026.'</b>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br> <b>'The hype is real!'</b>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br> <b>'Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!'</b>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br> <b>'Sheesh! The dysfunction. This read was a ride and I was here for it!'</b>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br> <b>'I'm shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!'</b>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br> <b>'Perhaps the funniest book I've ever read.'</b>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br> <br> <b>'If the Royal Tenenbaums were middle-class and likable, they'd be this madcap family.' <i>The New York Times</i></b><br> <br> <b>'Manages to capture something we can all universally relate to: how normal it is to have a dysfunctional family' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br> <br> A National bestseller. A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by <i>Vulture,</i> <i>Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, The Times</i>, <i>Our Culture</i>, <i>Vol. 1 Brooklyn</i> and <i>Harper's Bazaar.</i> Belletrist's January Book Club pick.</p>
Just Watch Me
Lior Torenberg · 2026
Black Bag
Luke Kennard · 2026
<p>In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . .<br> <br> A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, <i>Black Bag</i> is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.</p>
Yesteryear A Novel
Caro Claire Burke · 2026
<b>A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.</b><br><br><i>My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. </i><br><br>Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.<br><br>Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.<br><br>A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, <i>Yesteryear</i> is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.
