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Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. It is Moshfegh's first novel. It was shortlisted …

Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to dilapidated 1950s Marshfield, California where he is forced to …

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very Nice Girl cracks open …

a personal underdog in literature.

A man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanizing dogs …

Disturbing, horrifying, grotesque, yet somehow completely enthralling.

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with …

one of the few books that actually made me laugh out loud

In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets …

adding this to my favorite books of all time

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incredibly well written comparison between personal experiences with hardships and near-death and the political systems which (literally) kill us

will be thinking about this one for a long time.

The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were …

Patti Smith tells real and imagined stories from her childhood.

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collection of memories rooted in object and place