It’s not often you encounter a book where a killer for hire is the prime suspect in a case she’s been asked to help solve. And that killer, she’s a woman. And that woman, she’s a tough talking, hard drinking smartass with a lot of ways to kill people in her repertoire.
Read MoreGirl, Woman, Other - Bernandine Evaristo (Fiction)
If I Was Your Girl - Meredith Russo (Fiction)
On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Voung (Fiction)
Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman (Fiction)
We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib (Memoir)
Prettiest Star - Carson Sickels (Fiction)
High School - Sara Quin & Tegan Quinn (Memoir)
I'm Afraid Of Men - Vivek Shraya (Memoir)
Like A Love Story - Abdi Nazemian (YA Fiction)
Here For It - R. Eric Thomas (Memoir)
This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Fiction)
The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin (Fiction)
Fierce Femmes & Notorious Liars - Kai Cheng Thom (Memoir)
House Of Impossible Beauties - Joesph Cassara (Fiction)
Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden (Memoir)
Not My Fathers Son - Alan Cumming (Memoir)
Aristotle & Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe - Benjamin Aire Saenz (Fiction)
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson (Fiction)
Tranny - Laura Jane Grace (Memoir)
Pasty - Nicole Dennis-Benn (Fiction)
Real Life - Brandon Taylor (Fiction)
Unicorn - Amrou Al-Kadhi (Memoir)
Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan (Fiction)
The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa (Fiction)
The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu (Fiction)
A Tale For The Time Being - Ruth Ozeki (Fiction)
How To Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Fiction)
The Measure Of My Powers - Jackie Kai Ellis (Memoir)
One Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter - Scaachi Koul (Memoir)
The Reality Bubble - Ziya Tong (Non-Fiction)
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related - Jenny Hejiun Willis (Memoir)
Inferno - Catherine Cho (Fiction)
Djiin Patrol On The Purple Line - Deepa Annapara (Fiction)
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee (Fiction)
Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao (Fiction)
Marriage Of A Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu (Fiction)
The Book Of M - Penn Sheperd (Fiction)
Permanent Record - Mary HK Choi (Fiction)
If you have yet to brave the works of this author let me give you something to ponder. Kindness, hope and grace can be found in the most harrowing of places. King will lead to into the darkness and then give you the heart to defy it.
Read MoreTo write is too bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. The profound is everywhere and in everyone if only we listen for it!
Read MoreIn the final pages of this novel, as the original maker of the Hunger Games asks himself of his prank proposal, “Who but the vilest monster would stage it?”, its understood that you have just spent several hours keeping company with that individual.
Read MoreThis book centers on a woman in her mid-thirties who struggles with puzzlement at the demeanour of the people around her. Somehow she must navigate the narrow social slots people, particularly women, are expected to occupy.
Read MoreHas the reading world been gifted with a new darkly comic writing genius? Unafraid to dish up violence and psychopathy with eerie nonchalance? I for one really hope so!
Read MoreTo a stranger glancing from the outside, the cover photo of this book might suggest a family brimming with the picturesque and idyllic, but that was as far removed from the truth as you can imagine. A tale of a family keeping secrets, from themselves as much as others.
Read MoreIf you tell me something, anything really, I’m likely going to do the math on it. And if it doesn’t have an obvious correlation to the world of mathematics, trust me when I tell you I will find a way to get it there. And I will enjoy every minute of it. Math can be either simple or intricate, the same can be said of stories. My deep love for both is no surprise then is it?
Read MoreTouted as a mash-up of Fried Green Tomatoes and Dracula, this book exudes Southern charm even as it dishes out thrills and chills enough to satisfy the appetite of any horror aficionado.
Read MoreThe book’s examination of the way people will acquiesce to more and more social change until the system becomes something unrecognizable is at the heart of this novel. Told from the perspective of a great character, it never preaches at the reader.
Read MoreThomas has a confession to make…and you the reader are going to want to stick around to hear it. You will be equally unsettled and absorbed by the end of the first page. And that’s only the beginning!
Read MoreReads with action this cinematic, elaborate and meticulous are few and far between and I highly recommend the pure escapism it offers. Think John Wick meets Jack Bauer, with John Krasinski starring in the movie version.
Read MoreOur main character is a brilliant, beautiful, damaged and destructive woman whose chaotic life is controlled and manipulated by several alternate personalities. The collision of these personalities is by far the most well-done part of this book, but in the end, it was near impossible to connect to any of them.
Read MoreWe Are Never Meeting In Real Life – Samantha Irby (Essays)
John Dies At The End – David Wong (Fiction)
Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl – Issa Rae (Memoir)
How To Weep In Public – Jacqueline Novak (Memoir)
My Year Of Rest And Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh (Fiction)
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris (Essays)
New Waves – Kevin Nguyen (Fiction)
Bad Monkeys – Matt Ruff (Fiction)
Pretend I’m Dead – Jen Beagin (Fiction)
I Was Told There’d Be Cake – Sloane Crosley (Essays)
You’ll Grow Out Of It – Jessi Klein (Fiction)
Shrill – Lindy West (Memoir)
Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem (Fiction)
Crooked Little Vein – Warren Ellis (Fiction)
Basket Case – Carl Hiaasen (Fiction)
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby (Fiction)
Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Fiction)
How I Became A Famous Novelist – Steve Hely (Fiction)
How Not To Die Alone – Richard Roper (Fiction)
Gil’s All Fright Diner – A. Lee Martinez (Fiction)
Nothing To See Here – Kevin Wilson (Fiction)
The Gunseller – Hugh Laurie (Fiction)
Dear Committee Members – Julie Schumacher (Letters)
The Princess Bride – William Goldman (Fiction)
The Martian – Andy Weir (Fiction)
Mostly Dead Things – Kristin Arnett (Fiction)
Why Mummy Drinks – Gill Sims (Fiction)
Postcards From The Edge – Carrie Fisher (Fiction)
Born A Crime – Trevor Noah (Memoir)
Self-Inflicted Wounds – Aisha Taylor (Memoir)
Bossypants – Tina Fey (Memoir)
Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher (Memoir)
Dear Girls – Ali Wong (Memoir)
I Don’t Know What You Know Me From – Judy Greer (Memoir)
Sh*t My Dad Says – Justin Halpern (Memoir)
Gross Anatomy – Mara Altman (Non-Fiction)
Big Activity Book For Anxious People – Jordan Reid (Non-Fiction)
Yes Please – Amy Poehler (Memoir)
I Can’t Make This Up – Kevin Hart (Memoir)
A Polaroid Guy In A Snapchat World – David Spade (Memoir)
Life Will Be The Death Of Me – Chelsea Handler (Memoir)
How To Be A Bawse – Lilly Singh (Memoir)
Milke and Honey - Rupi Kaur (Poetry)
This Wound Is A World - Billy-Ray Belacourt (Poetry)
This Accident Of Being Lost - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Poetry)
A Fortune For Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib (Poetry)
Mind Platter - Najwa Zebian (Reflections)
All Along You Were Blooming - Morgan Harper Nichols (Affirmations)
Shame Is An Ocean I Swim Across - Mary Lambert (Poetry)
Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds (Story)
Voodoo Hypothesis - Canisia Lubrin (Poetry)
Bunny - Mona Awad (Fiction)
My Summer Of Love & Misfortune - Lindsay Wong (Fiction)
It All Falls Down - Sheena Kamal (Fiction)
There's Something About Sweetie - Sandhya Menon (Fiction)
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related - Jenny Hijun Wills (Memoir)
The Stone Thrower - Jael Ealey Richardson (Memoir)
We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib (Memoir)
An Ocean Of Minutes - Thea Lim (Fiction)
Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability & Making Space - Amanda Leduc (Memoir)
Samantha Irby is a black lady with a white wife living in a red state. She is a self-described middle-aged depressed lady with chronic diarrhea and a snarky voice. That is a lot of fodder for saucy and hilarious musings on the mundanities of life.
Read MoreThese books are not breakneck speed page turners which is a wonderful change of pace in our recent release offerings. They never feel like a by the number’s thriller. The twists and revelations work all the better for being worked for, rather than flung at the reader, two to a page.
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