21 Top fiction books like Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

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Similar categories in Elaine Hsieh Chou's Disorientation book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• audiobook

"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

Similar categories in Peng Shepherd's The Cartographers book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"Grief can raze a face far worse than ten times as many years. (Romi's chapter, Libby @p735/921)."

-Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Similar categories in Chris Pavone's Two Nights in Lisbon book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• crime
• audiobook

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• crime
• audiobook

"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast? A bowl of Honey Bunches of Bitch?"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"He was dressed like a tourist, his T-shirt tucked into belted jeans like a sociopath."

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the Pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep …"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep …"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Babel book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

Similar categories in Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

Similar categories in Sulari Gentill's The Woman in the Library book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• crime
• audiobook

"I am a bricklayer without drawings, laying words in sentences, sentences into paragraphs, allowing my walls to twist and turn on whim...no framework...just bricks interlocked...no idea what I'm build…"

-Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library

Similar categories in Sara Nović's True Biz book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"No one is comforted by salad."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Siren Queen book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• queer
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• crime
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• crime
• audiobook

Similar categories in Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• audiobook
• mystery thriller
• lgbt
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• crime
• queer

"We’re children of the diaspora,"

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"Art could be beauty, but it was also power."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"She had never liked anything she did not excel at."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's The Golden Spoon book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"Sometimes we must do what we can to keep our mistakes a secret, don't we?"

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"It's an optimistic scene of pastel colors and light woods. One that lends itself well to the show's folksy niceness."

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"Recipes are like architecture; a combination of tested methods with personal elements is what makes a bake memorable."

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"They are all unique and lovingly constructed. There's one for a chocolate ganache tart striped with hazelnut and praline, a honey cake with orange marmalade filling, coconut cream-filled doughnuts wi…"

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

Similar categories in Jane Pek's The Verifiers (Claudia Lin) book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• audiobook
• mystery thriller
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• queer

"If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't yet understand."

-Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Similar categories in Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• crime
• audiobook

"I'd nodded dumbly, unable to conceive how it was that I still had my grandmother while by baby no longer had his."

-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

"What had once been their greatest strength--their perceived docility and obedience, their relative invisibility--had become their weakness. The narrative flipped. Now their Asian features read as sch…"

-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

"She'd gone to the right schools, chosen the right career, married the right partner, formed the right family - and made enormous sacrifices in the process, and yet here she was, thoroughly miserable,…"

-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

Similar categories in Brendan Slocumb's The Violin Conspiracy book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"He would tell you that music is truly a universal language, and that we the listeners will always impose our own fears and biases, our own hopes and hungers on whatever we hear. He would tell you tha…"

-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy

"Bring it. Just fucking bring it. Stand tall, Grandma Nora had told him: he would stand tall, with the spotlights shining on his face, and his music would pour into all their ears, and they would unde…"

-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy

Similar categories in Rose Szabo's We All Fall Down (The River City Duology, #1) book and Grace D. Li's Portrait of a Thief

• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• queer