From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage–a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.

A teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, exploring their histories and the impact of their choices on their lives.

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Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America.

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A gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage.

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After disturbing dreams of blood and violence, a woman renounces meat, triggering a chain of increasingly grotesque events as her family attempts to control her growing estrangement. Winner of International Booker Prize.

An unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot we’ve longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all.

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Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

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Four seekers arrive at Hill House for a paranormal investigation, but as terrifying events unfold, the house’s supernatural powers target one of them. This classic horror novel inspired a Netflix series.

A brilliant math professor with short-term memory loss forms a unique bond with his housekeeper and her son through the beauty of mathematics.

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A chance airport encounter leads to a dark tale of obsession when Jeff shares how saving a drowning art dealer led him into a seductive world of wealth, power, and moral corruption.

Unjustly neglected by history, Margaret the First — as she styled herself — was a bright, shining paradox. Here, she is brought intimately and memorably to life, tumbling pell-mell across the pages of this exhilarating novel — an ‘unordinary’ portrait of a woman whose ambitions, and marriage, were often centuries ahead of her time.

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A retired soldier races to the ancestral home of their dying childhood friend, only to find a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife.

Explorers undergo biological modifications to survive hostile exoplanets, but Earth’s culture drastically changes during their mission, leaving them disconnected.

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A self-aware security android who calls itself Murderbot must investigate a neighboring mission’s silence while struggling with its own identity. Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award winner, now an Apple TV series.

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In 1985 Ireland, coal merchant Bill Furlong makes a discovery at a local convent that challenges his past and forces him to confront the church’s control over his small town.

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Adapted from her TEDx talk, Adichie presents a compelling argument for modern feminism, advocating for raising both daughters and sons differently to create a fairer world.

A marble sculptor’s masterpiece comes to life as his wife through divine intervention. When he imprisons her under medical supervision, she plots her escape to save her daughter.

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