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My first book recommendation list will be full soon and I don't want to overfill it so I will divide my book recs into parts. Check out Part 1 of my books recs if you didn't <3
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“It was a pleasure to burn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

 
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“I liked hurting girls. Mentally, not physically, I never hit a girl in my life. Well, once. But that was a mistake. I’ll tell you about it later. The thing is, I got off on it. I really enjoyed it. It’s like when you hear serial killers say they fee...
Diary of an Oxygen Thief a book by Anonymous Anonymous.
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The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, rose the water tower, its surface all washed out by the sun. Harrie...
The Little Friend a book by Donna Tartt.
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Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds...
Piranesi: a book by Susanna Clarke.
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That girl didn’t want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme. The five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone – had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood. Although the...
The Virgin Suicides a book by Jeffrey Eugenides.
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Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories s...
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed a book by Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell.
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Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fict...
Hit Parade of Tears a book by Izumi Suzuki, Sam Bett, David Boyd, et al.
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There’s something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh’s stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful – and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment...
Homesick For Another World a book by Ottessa Moshfegh.
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This deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things a book by Iain Reid.
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Determined to shake off the threat of death, Frederic examines every possible procedure, legal and illegal, to turn him into a member of a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frederic travels the globe m...
A Life Without End a book by Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne.
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein is an astounding and painfully relatable debut novel about the spontaneous decisions that shape our entire lives and those imperfect relationships born of unexpectedly perfect evenings.
Cleopatra and Frankenstein a book by Coco Mellors.
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This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read.
Stoner: A Novel a book by John Williams.
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Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator.
The Long Good-bye a book by Raymond Chandler.
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The 120 Days of Sodom is the Marquis de Sade's masterpiece. A still unsurpassed catalogue of sexual perversions and the first systematic exploration of the psychopathology of sex, it was written during Sade's lengthy imprisonment for sexual deviancy ...
The 120 Days Of Sodom: And Other Writings a book by Marquis de Sade.
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Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across America, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the...
Fight Club a book by Chuck Palahniuk.
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The women of Stepford are not all that they seem...All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent, suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbies and beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, newly arrive...
The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk a book by Ira Levin.
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In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives. The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a...
Glamorama a book by Bret Easton Ellis.
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Mueller chronicles her high-risk, high-reward life in glorious technicolour, from becoming a part of John Waters' legendary acting troupe to becoming a mother, from describing the hedonism of 1980s New York to critiquing the government's dire respons...
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories a book by Cookie Mueller.
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They called her 'Nauseating Nancy' - the outrageous girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious. She died as she had lived - shockingly, in a sleazy New York hotel. Sid would be charged with her murder before his own untimely death. But what the lurid headl...
And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder a book by Deborah Spungen.
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It is winter-time and Eileen Dunlop is dreaming of escaping her life... In the meantime, her time is spent caring for her alcoholic father, working as a secretary in a prison and shoplifting. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives...
Eileen a book by Ottessa Moshfegh.
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The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn As dusk shifts to twilight...
The Night Circus a book by Erin Morgenstern.
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Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and s...
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction a book by Barbara Kingsolver.
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A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju – the test to find the most talented students in the Empire – it was a shock to ever...
The Poppy War a book by R.F. Kuang.
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When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it. So what if it means stealing Athena’s final manuscript? So what if it means ‘borrowing’ her identity? And so what if the f...
Yellowface a book by Rebecca F Kuang.
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This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born. It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of hi...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous a book by Ocean Vuong.
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nonymous is back with the intoxicating, darkly dangerous, and wildly addictive sequel to his New York Times bestselling debut novel Diary of an Oxygen Thief. Picking up the story where it left off, the controversial protagonist of cult classic Diary ...
Chameleon in a Candy Store
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A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of these characters has a desperate desire. Can any of them be sated?
She's Always Hungry: 'Playful, sometimes depraved and often laugh-out-loud funny' Colin Walsh a book by Eliza Clark.
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Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes? Did you see the pictures of the body? Did you look for them? It's been nearly a decade since the horrifying mu...
Penance: The 'unmissable banger' ALICE SLATER from the author of BOY PARTS and SHE'S ALWAYS HUNGRY a book by Eliza Clark.
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When Yuko Moriguchi's four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches, everyone thought it was a tragic accident. It's the last day of term, and Yuko's last day at work. She tells her students that she has resigned because of what ...
Confessions a book by Kanae Minato and Stephen Snyder.
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Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. But It soon becomes clear that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to...
Our Wives Under The Sea a book by Julia Armfield.
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Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former ...
My Dark Vanessa a book by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
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The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide ...
The Unconsoled|Paperback
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Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother’s grocery shop in a dreary turn-of-the-century English neighborhood, but spends her days dreaming of handsome Paradise House, where her aunt is enthroned as a maid. But in Angel’s imagination, s...
Angel|Paperback
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Six of Crows—this international bestseller is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that chills to the bone, and not just because of the icy winter setting. Lumikki Andersson has made it a rule to stay out of things that...
As Red as Blood (As Red as Blood Series #1)|Paperback
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When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieva...
The Cloisters: A Novel|Paperback
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I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am. Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving ...
I'm a Fan: A Novel|Paperback
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'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its h...
The New Me|Paperback
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Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her l...
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath|Paperback
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For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one—the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's bab...
You'd Be Home Now|Paperback
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Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous g...
The Pisces|Paperback
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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1...
The Bad Girl|Paperback
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The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to stay BFFs. Maren Gelb is on a company-imposed digital detox. She tweeted something terrible about the President's...
Self Care: A Novel|Paperback
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An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting novel. Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family’s rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Ma...
Snowflake: A Novel|Paperback
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lice Lange’s neighbors are proud to know her—a high-achieving student, cheerleader, and all-around good citizen, she’s a perfect emblem of their sunny neighborhood. The night before she’s expected to be crowned Homecoming Queen, though, she commits a...
We Can Only Save Ourselves: A Novel|eBook
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aught up in a whirlwind romance that starts in sunny Ibiza and leads to a luxurious English country estate, Poppy barely has time to catch her breath, let alone seriously question if the man of her dreams is too good to be true. Drew is enamored, dev...
The Truth Hurts: A Novel|eBook
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In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmi...
Tampa|Paperback
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I don’t know why I feel like I’ve been caught doing something dirty. Cheating on queerness. Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife. Thirty years old with a lifetime of dysphoria and fuccbois rattling around in her head, Max is plagued by a deep...
Disappoint Me: A Novel|Hardcover
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From a blistering new voice in dark literary fiction, an unsettling portrait of loneliness, obsession, and identity which asks: if a stranger was left alone in your house, how well could they truly get to know you—enough to fall in love with you? Ali...
Creep: A Love Story|Paperback
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In this stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a Satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liaison is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional distance. ...
Animals Eat Each Other|Paperback
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It’s a book of grief and anxiety, of questions and confessions. One that explores the way pain and anxiety can be simultaneously public and private, constant but not always at the top of a person’s mind. A book that asks: what if the words we angrily...
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A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s—decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the ...
Black Swans|Paperback
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In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly—they are sometimes to...
No One Belongs Here More Than You|Paperback
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Classics

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

 
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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has... ...read Kilgore Trout ...opened a successful optometry business ...built a loving family ...witnessed the firebombing of Dresden ...traveled to the planet Tralfamadore ...met Kurt Vonnegut ...come unstuck in time. Billy P...
Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel a book by Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North, and Albert Monteys.
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Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text a book by Mary Shelley.
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What does it mean to live a life of completeness? And how far must one go to understand the pain of others? Is change truly possible? This is the story that proves that it is. In what could be described as equal parts self-help book and a novelistic ...
Siddhartha a book by Hermann Hesse.
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'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the du...
The Grapes of Wrath a book by John Steinbeck.
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual ...
The Brothers Karamazov a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.
White Nights a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Ronald Meyer.
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A man is being haunted by the heartbeat of his murder victim
The Tell-Tale Heart a book by Edgar Allan Poe.
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As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind...
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series) a book by Charlotte Bronte.
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Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from t...
Kafka on the Shore|Paperback
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K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears f...
Sputnik Sweetheart|Paperback
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As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idios...
Dance Dance Dance|Paperback
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The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for ...
The Woman in the Dunes|Paperback
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One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in ei...
The Master and Margarita (Mirra Ginsburg Translation)|Paperback
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Girlhood

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

 
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Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the ...
Milk Fed a book by Melissa Broder.
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THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to rebuild her life.
The Woman Destroyed a book by Simone de Beauvoir.
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Hope I'm in for a good time, I thought. Even if it's just for tonight. Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes,...
Set My Heart on Fire a book by Izumi Suzuki and Helen O'Horan.
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A piercing, darkly funny debut, Natural Beauty explores questions of consumerism, self-worth, race, and identity — and leaves readers with a shocking and unsettling truth.
Natural Beauty: 'A sinister and entertaining exploration of toxic beauty culture and capitalism' Guardian a book by Ling Ling Huang.
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This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation a book by Ottessa Moshfegh.
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A celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it’s a book to share with every woman you’ve ever been lucky enough to call a friend.
Everything I Know About Love a book by Dolly Alderton.
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Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl, our dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She’s grieving the death of her father, avoiding her loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her futur...
Pizza Girl a book by Jean Kyoung Frazier.
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SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY: The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that h...
Either/Or: From the bestselling author of THE IDIOT a book by ELIF BATUMAN.
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A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie is trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses and unethical projects, she struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth...
Ripe a book by Sarah Rose Etter.
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"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"
Acts of Desperation: The must-read novel a book by Megan Nolan.
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Although Anaïs Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artisti...
A Spy in the House of Love|Paperback
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I am glad I have the radiance. This time I am wiser. No one will know. . . . The radiance drifts blue circles around my head. If I wanted to I could float up and through them. I am weightless. My brain is cool like rippling waves. Conflict does not e...
The Princess of 72nd Street: A Novel|Paperback
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o you feel like you are too nice? Sherry Argov’s Why Men Love Bitches delivers a unique perspective as to why men are attracted to a strong woman who stands up for herself. With saucy detail on every page, this no-nonsense guide reveals why a strong ...
Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship|Paperback
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In short, frisky sections, these Parisian women give you their very original views on style, beauty, culture, attitude and men. The authors—Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas—unmarried but attached, with children—have been...
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits|eBook
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Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infat...
Big Swiss|Paperback
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In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inventory of the damages that underpin the surface-glamour of social media. At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmeti...
Aesthetica|Paperback
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In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss. Since her mother's death, Lily has withdrawn from the world, trapped between grief and anger. She has to break out of this damaging cycle - but how...
Common Decency: A dark, intimate novel of love, grief and obsession|eBook
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When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets her distant and enigmatic new coworker Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be. Meggie is immediately drawn to worldly, beautiful, and uninhibited Sabine; and when Sabine announces she’s s...
Nightshift: A Novel|Paperback
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Award-winning, bestselling and critically acclaimed writers delivering sharp and searing stories of monstrous and morally gray women, perfect for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Melissa Broder and Roxane Gay Focus on bloggers, bookstagrammers, and b...
Peach Pit|Paperback
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Lonely, broke and depressed with a serious case of OCD, Gia finds herself at a crossroads when financial troubles lead her to Nathan, a mysterious and affluent man she encounters on a sugar dating website. Desperate for a solution, Gia is intrigued b...
Shy Girl|Paperback
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Satara is angry, and she wants revenge. Love, betrayal, murder, and witchcraft. When 35-year-old Satara Stratton discovers her husband Dean's treacherous affair with her best friend, Lilah, she plunges into familiar territory: deceit and death. Havin...
Sugar|Paperback
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Archives

"I was only curious to know how it started. Now I know. Feelings can creep up just like that. I thought I was in control.” - In the Mood For Love (movie) by Wong Kar Wai

 
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My favorite film director in the whole world. Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore-in saturated, cinematic scenes-themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and textur...
Wkw: the Cinema of Wong Kar Wai
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An art book personally edited and annotated throughout by Coppola, Archive offers an intimate encounter with her methods, references, and collaborators and an unprecedented insight into her working processes. Accompanying the highly personal images a...
Sofia Coppola Archive
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Spirituality etc.

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 
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Our date of birth and our name can say a lot about our life's purpose, and even help us make informed decisions for the future. The answers are easy to discover through numerology. Michelle Buchanan began studying numerology 27 years ago after her li...
Numerology Made Easy: Discover Your Future, Life Purpose and Destiny from Your Birth Date and Name|Paperback
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The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life ...
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love|Paperback
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How do we reconcile our need to express our emotions with our desire to protect others? Far too often we find ourselves trapped in this dilemma of expression versus repression. We fear that by expressing our true feelings, we will hurt and alienate t...
Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy|Hardcover
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From one of the most experienced and best teachers in the psychic/holistic field today comes a handbook for psychic self-defense that everyone can use. At a time when so much information is available and so many present themselves as experts, this do...
Psychic Protection|Paperback
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Poems

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental a...

 
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"Sylvia Plath's last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name." — The Critical Quarterly
Ariel|Paperback
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Lana Del Rey follows in the same musician/poet footsteps as Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Jewel and Lou Reed. Lana’s music and lyrics evoke images of a saturated Kodachrome photograph, so it would stand to reason that she’d now add “poet” to her arti...
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass|Hardcover
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This completely original collection of poetry and prose will not only delight her avid fans but is sure to capture the imagination of a whole new audience. With the turn of every page, Sea of Strangers invites you to go beyond love and loss to explor...
Sea of Strangers|Paperback
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