Fiction

A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book…

First published in 1983, this collection of short stories from Charles Bukowski is emblematic of his style and a…

Feeling crampy? Irritable? Exhausted? Like your uterus is trying to reach up and throttle you with your own fallopian…

A novel about family, love, depression, anxiety, having faith in each other, and helping each other through the most…

A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN…

It's 1996, senior year of high school has just begun, and Lester is at a total loss. He should be studying and making…

Monsters is an illustrated collection of wild, weird, and whimsical tales with a twist. These stories are not about…

An entertaining and informative graphic novel about US consumption and waste, from the perspective of a garbage…

Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…

This novel is everything. At its most simplistic, it's a love story set in Nigeria, the US, and the UK. It's so much…

In this new Marvel comic, Jersey City Muslim girl Kamala Khan gains shape-shifting superpowers and transforms herself…

This graphic novel is a meditation on art, love, sacrifice, and how these ideas intermingle and come together to form a…

Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented…

George "Tubby" Bowling--middle-aged, insurance salesman, father, husband, and common man--is, shockingly, dissatisfied…

Landfall is about the converging of two lives amidst death and destruction. Set during Hurricane Katrina, the book not…

Ray Bancroft, an Alaskan fisherman, has raised his 11 year old granddaughter since birth, and to him, family is…

A high school senior, Abe seems to have it all: a Division I track scholarship, a hot girlfriend, and a loving and…

The euphoric idealism of grassroots and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this…

Imagine knowing what the brain craves and what keeps readers transfixed. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on…

The adaptation of the 2012 movie Wadjda about a girl who wants nothing more than to buy a bicycle—which was, btw the…

Book two of the Wildwood trilogy is Under Wildwood. This one is 576 pages with 80 illustrations. It's created by life +…

Sixteen short stories by poet and all around brilliant person Amiri Baraka. These first came out in 1967 and they are…

If there was ever a macho, white-cis-straight-guy-dominated genre, it's science fiction. But don't be fooled—badass…

In a drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water thief is caught on camera redistributing an illegal…

This is a novel that reads as a page-turning, barely-fictionalized memoir about squatting in New York City in the 90s. A…

This is the book that predicted the 1992 LA riots. Mike Davis gives us a full bore analysis of Los Angeles culture,…

Funny, sad, touching, realistic, strange—you'll find here a wide range of short stories about our relationships with…