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• Finna

  Cipri, Nino,

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  When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store -- but not that one -- slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna,

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  Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Is No Antimemetics Division

  a Novel

  qntm (Author of science fiction),

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  They're all around us, hiding in plain sight. One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now--but from this second to the next, you'll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

  Danielewski, Mark Z.

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  Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horrorstör

  Hendrix, Grady,

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  Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gunk Baby

  a Novel

  Lau, Jamie Marina, 1997-

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  In the suburb of Par Mars stand a pair of identical shopping centers, each with the same harsh, fluorescent lights, climate-controlled environment, and monotonous encounters between employees and shoppers. Reviving an ancient Chinese ritual passed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Divine Farce

  Graziano, Michael S. A.,

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  Three strangers are condemned to live together in darkness, crushed together in a concrete stall so small that they can never sit down. Liquid food drips down from above. Waste drains through a grid on the floor. So begins one of the strangest, most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hollow Places

  a Novel

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Short Stay in Hell

  Peck, Steven L.

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  As a faithful Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Who Have Never Known Men

  Harpman, Jacqueline

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  Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.

• You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

  a Novel

  Kleeman, Alexandra,

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  A woman known only by the letter A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality show called That's My Partner! A eats (or doesn't) the right things, watches endless amounts of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House of Stairs

  Sleator, William

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  Five fifteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.

• The Employees

  a Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

  Ravn, Olga,

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  Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Used to Live Here

  Kliewer, Marcus,

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  As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can't believe the killer deal they've just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they're working in the house one day, there's a knock on the door. A man stands there with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls

  Farthing, Ben,

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  Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed. He recognizes the furry Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coup De Grâce

  Ajram, Sofia,

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  Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rules for Vanishing

  Marshall, Kate Alice

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  In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to find her sister--at all costs.

• You Should Have Left

  a Novel

  Kehlmann, Daniel

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  A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but something isn't right. As he toils on a sequel to his most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms aren't where he remembers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unconsoled

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alice Isn't Dead

  a Novel

  Fink, Joseph (Fiction writer),

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  Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha…Read moreRead more of this annotation