#powells recommends
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
“Fair warning: This is gonna hurt. This is a toxic relationship…in a barrel… on fire… rolling into traffic. Have fun!”
Nine Island by Jane Alison
“Let’s face it: Getting older sucks. And it happens to everyone! your parents, you rpets, and now you. Even worse, you’re single…”
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
“So, a giant talking crow has invaded your home, terrorizing your children, and wreaking havoc? Congratulations! You’re in mourning.”
Exes by Max Winter
“Welcome to Rhode Island! And holy moly, is this place a drag or what? A densely knit, moon-drunk yowl that will leave your ears ringing.”
Jillian by Halle Butler
“You know that petty, spiteful, unbearable person in your office? Well, guess what? For someone else, that person is you!”
Garbage Times White Ibis by Sam Pink
“Mopping up dive bar toilets sure isn’t glamorous and neither is much of anything else in this gnarly bummer of a book.”
Tomb Song A Novel by Julian Herbert
“Death - the ultimate bad mood, and a perfect excuse to take a gut-wrenching trip down memory lane (which is paved with bad sex, and opium binges, apparently).”
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
“Helen heads home to sift through the hows and whys of a family tragedy. On the bright side, she’s also socially awkward and possibly maybe hallucinating.”
August by Romina Paula, Jennifer Croft
“It’s so hard to say goodby eto yesterday, especially when you’re being thrust back into a life you’d left behind to put old ghosts to rest (including your ex-boyfriend).”
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
“You wake up drunk, imprisioned, and nursing a nasty headwound - at least it can’t get much worse. Oh wait: you’re also suspected of murder…”
Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
The Babysitter at Rest by Jen George
Large Animals: Stories by Jess Arndt
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
Mean by Myriam Gurba
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera
Body Horror by Anne Elizabeth Moore
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
I’m Fine But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow
The Changeling by Joy Williams
Fen: Stories by Daisy Johnson
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton