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Hysteria
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- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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Publisher's summary
One of Refinery29's Best Books of the Summer
One of Lit Hub's Best New Books of the Summer
“If Ottessa Moshfegh and Phoebe Waller-Bridge painted the town red together." (Courtney Maum)
In Hysteria, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual bender at her local bar. There is a new bartender working this time, one she hasn't seen before, but who can properly make a drink. He looks familiar, and as she is consumed by shame from her behavior the previous week - hooking up with her parents' colleague and her roommate's brother - she also becomes convinced that her Brooklyn bartender is actually Sigmund Freud. They embark on a relationship, and she is forced to confront her past through the prism of their complex, revealing, and sometimes shocking meetings. With the help of Freud - or whoever he is - she begins to untangle her Oedipal leanings, her upbringing, and her desires. Jessica Gross's debut is unflinchingly perceptive and honest, darkly funny, and unafraid of mining the deepest fears of contemporary lives.
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A modern American psycho but British
- By sofia on 09-23-21
By: Eliza Clark
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Brutes
- A Novel
- By: Dizz Tate
- Narrated by: Eleanor McCormick
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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No idea what was happening at any time
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-24
By: Dizz Tate
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Paradise Rot
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss - translator
- Narrated by: Brie Jackman
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.
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Beautifully Written but Vain Author
- By Miss M on 08-14-24
By: Jenny Hval, and others
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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Intriguing but disturbing
- By C. Parham on 01-01-21
By: Sayaka Murata
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The Eyes Are the Best Part
- By: Monika Kim
- Narrated by: Jaine Ye
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing. In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment.
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The Eyes are the Best Part
- By Paul on 08-15-24
By: Monika Kim
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Comfort Me with Apples
- By: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrated by: Karis Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Sophia was made for him, her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect; their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect; everything is perfect. It's just that he's away so much - so often. He works so hard. She misses him, and he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband, and everything is perfect.
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strange story
- By Barbara S on 11-03-21
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Post-Traumatic
- By: Chantal V. Johnson
- Narrated by: Tiffany Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story—a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood—compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black Latinx woman in America. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple subway ride into a heart-pounding drama.
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Not sure why I listened to this story.
- By Ron Plummer on 07-15-22
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The Employees
- A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
- By: Olga Ravn
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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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 the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.
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I think this was a story?
- By Jordan on 07-02-23
By: Olga Ravn
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The New Me
- By: Halle Butler
- Narrated by: Halle Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Millie, 30, just can't pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates between self-recrimination and mild delusion, fixating on all the little ways she might change her life. Then she watches TV until she drops off to sleep, and the cycle begins again. When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to bring the better life she's envisioning within reach. But with it also comes the paralyzing realization of just how hollow that vision has become.
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Might have been an ok read...
- By mfseegs on 04-24-19
By: Halle Butler
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Deliver Me
- A Novel
- By: Elle Nash
- Narrated by: Madeleine Dauer
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her coworkers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift. The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut a punishment to her hands and joints, but Dee-Dee's more concerned with what is happening inside her body. After a series of devastating miscarriages, Dee-Dee has found herself pregnant, and she is determined to carry this child to term. Dee-Dee fled the Pentecostal church years ago, but judgment follows her in the form of regular calls from her mother.
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Poor hygiene with a heavy dose of religious trauma
- By Iran on 07-23-24
By: Elle Nash
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
- By: Coco Mellors
- Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank’s life is full of all the excesses Cleo’s lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint and the opportunity to apply for a green card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could’ve predicted.
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Refreshing
- By Sadz on 11-22-22
By: Coco Mellors
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Human Sacrifices
- By: María Fernanda Ampuero, Frances Riddle - translator
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over boys drowned while surfing, and an unhappy couple finds themselves trapped in a terrifying maze. With scalpel-like precision, Ampuero considers the price paid by those on the margins so that the elite might lounge comfortably, considering themselves safe in their homes.
By: María Fernanda Ampuero, and others
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Penance
- A Novel
- By: Eliza Clark
- Narrated by: Hollie-Jay Bowes, Anna Gilthorpe, Emily Goldie, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls. Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.
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she did it again!
- By mina on 10-04-23
By: Eliza Clark
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Jawbone
- By: Mónica Ojeda, Sarah Booker - translator
- Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality.
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Nooooooo! What did I just listen to?
- By S. Hebberd on 12-04-23
By: Mónica Ojeda, and others
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When We Lost Our Heads
- A Novel
- By: Heather O'Neill
- Narrated by: Jeanna Phillips
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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Charismatic Marie Antoine is the daughter of the richest man in 19th century Montreal. She has everything she wants, except for a best friend - until clever, scheming Sadie Arnett moves to the neighborhood. Immediately united by their passion and intensity, Marie and Sadie attract and repel each other in ways that thrill them both. Their games soon become tinged with risk, even violence. Forced to separate by the adults around them, they spend years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity.
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I could not put this book down
- By Melody on 03-22-23
By: Heather O'Neill
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- Kerr
- 11-27-20
Great Writing; So-So Material
At the outset, it’s apparent that Ms. Gross is talented. The writing is great! The elements and development are there. Even the narrator was spot-on.
The drawback for me was the substance of the book. I just couldn’t get into the aggressively sexual nature that of the book.
For some, I’m sure it won’t be an issue. If that’s you, then I’d highly recommend this book.
I’d definitely check out other work from the author—assuming it isn’t about someone’s journey through the gutters of sexuality.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-13-22
Delicious disaster woman novel
If you’re the type of person who enjoys morally ambiguous female disaster novels (the pisces, my year of rest and relaxation) you’ll love this book. Equal parts hilarious and devastating I found myself on the edge of my seat for most of its bewildering plot. Great narration by the reader as well.
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