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  • The Prophet and the Idiot by Jonasson, Jonas
    Jonas Jonasson

    The Prophet and the Idiot

    Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.In the fading...
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  • Harold by Wright, Steven
    Steven Wright

    Harold

    A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school. Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history. Rolling Stone ranked...
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  • Ten by Emar, Juan
    Juan Emar

    Ten

    A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palem, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts in his court--which is itself contained in a demonic gemstone the size...
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  • Half-Lives by Schmeidler, Lynn
    Lynn Schmeidler

    Half-Lives

    A playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations. Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of...
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  • Invisible Bridges: Stories by Dragan, Richard
    Richard Dragan

    Invisible Bridges: Stories

    Both Eerie and Subversive Invisible Bridges explores the oddness behind human decisions and desires.Readers of psychological fiction and stream-of-consciousness narratives will enjoy this eclectic and compelling short story collection by author Richard Dragan. Anchored by the acclaimed title story, "The Builder of Invisible Bridges,"...
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  • The Dog of the North by McKenzie, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth McKenzie

    The Dog of the North

    * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction * "I'm in love with a grieving misfit driving...
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  • Be Prepared to Die by Fiero, Jonathan
    Jonathan Fiero

    Be Prepared to Die

    They tell us the journey is the destination. It is not. It's the other way... The destination is where the journey takes place. That destination, it is escape from The White Curtain. In order to live the life we want, we must have the...
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  • Vengeful Hank and Other Shortweird Stories by St Pierre, Marcel
    Marcel St Pierre

    Vengeful Hank and Other Shortweird Stories

    A time-travel prototype lands in a Viking village. A horse-riding fiddler crab reveals his secret. A despotic tyrant is confronted by a penguin. Each story is "an imaginative gem... funny, charming, surprising" (Don Ferguson, Royal Canadian Air Farce) with a writing style that's "tight,...
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  • Cliché and Wind Go Hitchhiking: and Other Shortweird Stories by St Pierre, Marcel
    Marcel St Pierre

    Cliché and Wind Go Hitchhiking: and Other Shortweird Stories

    A mystical snow wizard offers his neighbour a chance at eternal life. A grizzly waiting tables reconsiders his life choices. A Manitobe misanthrope reaches for the stars. Two hitchhikers turn an introverted man's life upside down. A bee witnesses a plot by four inept...
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  • Mood Swings by Barnet, Frankie
    Frankie Barnet

    Mood Swings

    *"For fans of Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This (2021). An off-kilter, hauntingly hilarious debut novel." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] bonkers story . . . Despite the sobering material, this is a hoot." --Publishers Weekly In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike...
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  • The Pope Moves to Manyberries by Donnell, Alan
    Alan Donnell

    The Pope Moves to Manyberries

    The Pope walks out of the Vatican and into the rest of the world. He quickly becomes more famous than he ever was, and sightings of the Pope are reported across the globe including The Last Ranchman bar in Manyberries, a village in the...
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  • The Threat by Stein, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel Stein

    The Threat

    Dripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein's story explores what happens when the only way you can live is by feeling like you might die.Author: Nathaniel SteinISBN-10: 1684429692ISBN-13: 9781684429691Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Calm Down and Panic: Book One - The Boots of Wrath by Swinford, Steven James
    Steven James Swinford

    Calm Down and Panic: Book One - The Boots of Wrath

    Adam, a big-city slicker from the East has his life upheaved when an infamous outlaw steals his dog. Adam journeys West and then some, with the help of a legendary bounty hunter known as The Boots of Wrath. However, things take a... and I...
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  • It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by de Marcken, Anne
    Anne de Marcken

    It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

    This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she...
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  • Plastic Space House by Taff, John F. D.
    John F. D. Taff

    Plastic Space House

    "Welcome to Taff's nightmare. An entire novel seemingly set at that outer rim Lovecraft so deeply feared. Here plot makes room for philosophy without losing the beat, and the imagination does its work in the blackness of deepest outer space." -Josh Malerman, New York...
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  • The Threat by Stein, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel Stein

    The Threat

    Dripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein's story explores what happens when the only way you can live is by feeling like you might die.Author: Nathaniel SteinISBN-10: 1684429706ISBN-13: 9781684429707Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Boinking Bizarro by Morrison, Chandler
    Chandler Morrison

    Boinking Bizarro

    Author: Chandler MorrisonISBN-10: 1639510281ISBN-13: 9781639510283Publisher: Death's Head PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2020Pages: 200Format: Paperback
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  • Don't Mind Me by Coughlan, Brian
    Brian Coughlan

    Don't Mind Me

    The short stories in Brian Coughlan's Don't Mind Me dig deep into what it means to live in an increasingly connected, but isolated modern world that demands far more than we can possibly hope to provide. A couple with financial problems encounter an over-bearing...
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  • Y/N by Yi, Esther
    Esther Yi

    Y/N

    Finalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeNew York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023New York Times 2023 Critics' PickNew Yorker Best Book of 2023 (Essential Read)NPR Best Book of 2023TIME Must-Read Book of 2023Bookshop.org Best Book of 2023Chicago Public Library...
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  • The Thing in the Snow by Adams, Sean
    Sean Adams

    The Thing in the Snow

    From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel--equal parts satire and psychological thriller--that holds a funhouse mirror to the isolated workplace and an age of endless distraction. At the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits...
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  • Never Craven Was the Raven by White, Michael Anthony
    Michael Anthony White

    Never Craven Was the Raven

    Amidst an otherwise routine blink, you have just caught glimpse of a curious and unfamiliar binding - one that promises only to lead you gradually off the wayside.Its destination: past the charming whims of poetic joviality into the snarky silhouette of an umbral fowl.Author:...
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  • The Book of God by Banan, Ultan
    Ultan Banan

    The Book of God

    God has lost the plot. He spends his days Sweeney-like in the trees killing birds, or crawling through the bushes to watch humans at their rut. His only companion and sole remaining attendant, a withered and tortured scribe, chronicles the Lord's descent into madness...
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  • Medieval in La by Paul, Jim
    Jim Paul

    Medieval in La

    Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a "delightful...humorous" book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every "sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put" (New Yorker).Author: Jim PaulISBN-10: 0156005379ISBN-13: 9780156005371Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage:...
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  • The Book of God by Banan, Ultan
    Ultan Banan

    The Book of God

    God has lost the plot. He spends his days Sweeney-like in the trees killing birds, or crawling through the bushes to watch humans at their rut. His only companion and sole remaining attendant, a withered and tortured scribe, chronicles the Lord's descent into madness...
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  • The Unwavering: How Do You Reconcile? Or... Do You? by Smith, Lily H. D.
    Lily H. D. Smith

    The Unwavering: How Do You Reconcile? Or... Do You?

    The Unwavering is a collection of short fiction stories exploring reconciliation between humans and the multifaceted nature of relationships. The book centers upon how we reconcile in our relationships with others but, most importantly, how we can reconcile with ourselves.The Unwavering ignites reflection and...
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  • The Hearing Trumpet by Carrington, Leonora
    Leonora Carrington

    The Hearing Trumpet

    An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory...
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  • Judgment Day & Other White Lies by Hilbig, Mike
    Mike Hilbig

    Judgment Day & Other White Lies

    Judgment Day & Other White Lies is a short fiction collection that deconstructs whiteness by retelling versions of Greek, Roman, and Christian myths, concepts, and characters through a contemporary lens that reads whiteness into history as a force of destruction for white characters (in...
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  • The Unconsoled by Ishiguro, Kazuo
    Kazuo Ishiguro

    The Unconsoled

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant...
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  • Pale Fire by Nabokov, Vladimir
    Vladimir Nabokov

    Pale Fire

    A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita. "Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great...
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  • Goblins on the Other Side by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Goblins on the Other Side

    For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one...
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  • Search History by Lim, Eugene
    Eugene Lim

    Search History

    Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire. Frank Exit is dead--or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend...
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  • The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

    From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial--one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--the haunting tale of K.'s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman.Arriving...
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  • Lamella by Halper, Max
    Max Halper

    Lamella

    Mel Lane assumed his life was on the track it was supposed to be: a career with upward movement, a home, a long-term relationship. That is, until he comes home one day to a girlfriend he knows and a child he doesn't. Stranger still,...
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  • A Memory of the Ubiquitous Lost Things, Places, and People by Delgado, Jeremy
    Jeremy Delgado

    A Memory of the Ubiquitous Lost Things, Places, and People

    What if you could remember everything that ever happened to you? Would it make it any more possible to solve the mystery of existence? This story takes a hard look at what happens when we know too much. Author: Jeremy DelgadoISBN-10: 195205544XISBN-13: 9781952055447Publisher: Vegetarian...
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  • Coerced: Book Three of the AngelSong Series by Davis, Kevin A.
    Kevin A. Davis

    Coerced: Book Three of the AngelSong Series

    Time is running out for Haddie.Haddie, her dad, and her friends are all at risk in a twisting turn of events. The Unceasing are back and stronger than ever. Her co-worker has already been coerced, will one of her friends be next? In a...
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  • Condemned to Cymru by Nicholls, M. J.
    M. J. Nicholls

    Condemned to Cymru

    At the Husav勛 Research Institute, a paradise of Nordic perfection where the blemished are banished and the pretty are promoted, acne-ridden Magnus is sent on a bogus anthropological fact-finding mission to visit every village, town, and city in Wales to file "reports" for Iceland's...
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  • Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd by Jonasson, Jonas
    Jonas Jonasson

    Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd

    The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what's truly important in life. Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a...
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  • Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd by Jonasson, Jonas
    Jonas Jonasson

    Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd

    The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what's truly important in life. Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a...
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  • People from My Neighborhood: Stories by Kawakami, Hiromi
    Hiromi Kawakami

    People from My Neighborhood: Stories

    Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical--"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: na?, magical, and frequently veering into...
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  • Satan Burger (20th Anniversary Edition) by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Satan Burger (20th Anniversary Edition)

    Satan Burger explores a new kind of apocalypse. Not an apocalypse caused by disease or nuclear war, but an apocalypse of boredom. A plague of monotony has spread across the countryside, sucking all passion and out of everyone over the age of twenty-five, leaving...
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  • Life for Sale by Mishima, Yukio
    Yukio Mishima

    Life for Sale

    "A propulsive, madcap story" (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. - "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the...
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  • Slug and Other Stories by Milks, Megan
    Megan Milks

    Slug and Other Stories

    "Carefully considered, successful instances of experimental fiction" disrupt gender, genre, and identity in this deranged, otherworldly collection (Literary Hub).A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting...
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  • Happy Death by Camus, Albert
    Albert Camus

    Happy Death

    The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from...
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  • Terminal Boredom: Stories by Suzuki, Izumi
    Izumi Suzuki

    Terminal Boredom: Stories

    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's...
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  • The Hole by Oyamada, Hiroko
    Hiroko Oyamada

    The Hole

    Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their...
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  • The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Carrington, Leonora
    Leonora Carrington

    The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

    "Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington's published and unpublished short stories--many newly translated from their original French and Spanish--is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds." --Carmen Maria Machado, NPR Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre,...
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  • The Factory by Oyamada, Hiroko
    Hiroko Oyamada

    The Factory

    The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing...
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  • The Last Taxpayer at King Henry's Faire by Scannell, Bill
    Bill Scannell

    The Last Taxpayer at King Henry's Faire

    The Last Known Taxpayer at King Henry's Faire is a satiric crime novel about two IRS agents, Nix and Steiger, who are assigned a ten-year-old case where the last known taxpayer is dead. Despised by their boss, they wonder if he's out to get...
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  • All Work and No Play: The Misunderstood Masterpiece of Jack Torrance by Torrance, Jack
    Jack Torrance

    All Work and No Play: The Misunderstood Masterpiece of Jack Torrance

    Most people had considered the original manuscript of Jack Torrance's fabled novel All Work and No Play lost to time-its physical existence dismissed by the masses as mere rumor or urban legend. But the manuscript absolutely survived and, for the first time, is officially...
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  • The Decadents by Schmidt, M. C.
    M. C. Schmidt

    The Decadents

    Phil Ochs has his troubles. His adult son is a failed artist who's targeting him in a terroristic poetry campaign, his wife has developed an addiction to As Seen On TV gadgets, and a professional rival is poaching managers from his seventeen Fry Buddy...
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