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RECOMMENDED BOOKS

  • A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

  • A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

  • A Good, Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins  

  • Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

  • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

  • Dream Rooms by River Halen (poetry)

  • Florida Woman by Deb Rogers

  • For Your Own Good by Leah Horlick (poetry)

  • Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz 

  • Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly

  • Grief Slut by Evelyn Berry (poetry)

  • In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

  • Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

  • Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

  • Luster by Raven Leilani

  • Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

  • Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

  • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  • Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson

  • Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont 

  • Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn

  • Person by Sam Pink

  • Pig By Sam Sax (poetry)

  • Pizza Girl by Jean Kyong Frazier

  • Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin

  • Real Life by Brandon Taylor

  • Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

  • Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch

  • Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen

  • Super Sad Black Girl by Diamond Sharp (poetry)

  • Terrible Thanks For Asking  by Nora McIerny 

  • The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer

  • The First Bad Man by Miranda July

  • The Friend Sigrid Nunez

  • The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

  • The Spectacular by Zoe Whittall

  • Vacuum in the Dark by Jen Beagin

  • We Do What We Do In the Dark Michelle Hart 

  • What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn

  • You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

  • Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive

  • Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee

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(This is Emily's cat, Lou)

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