18 Top fiction books like The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka

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The Great Offshore Grounds

By: Vanessa Veselka

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and cast…

"Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it turns out, is a problem for people."

-Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds

"Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it turns out, is a problem for people."

-Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds

If you liked the fiction plot in The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. As It Is in Heaven

By: Niall Williams

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A man content to let life pass him by, schoolteacher Stephen Griffin is about to experience a mirac… read more

Similar categories in Niall Williams's As It Is in Heaven book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each…"

-Niall Williams, As It Is in Heaven

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2. Book, Line and Sinker (Library Lover's Mystery, #3)

By: JM , Jenn McKinlay

3.95

Format: 283 pages, Mass Market Paperback

“Avast” in pirate speak means what?* Answering tricky reference questions like this one provides… read more

Similar categories in JM's Book, Line and Sinker (Library Lover's Mystery, #3) book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road a… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7) book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Speedboat

By: Renata Adler

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more

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5. Storming Heaven

By: Denise Giardina

3.89

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroye… read more

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6. Disappearing Earth

By: Julia Phillips

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducte… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Disappearing Earth book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el …"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

"Near him, she couldn't think of anything but him. But when they were a little apart she returned to herself, and she liked that woman she came back to. Someone...capable. Someone who maintained stand…"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

"He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred p…"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

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7. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • queer
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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8. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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9. Creatures

By: Crissy Van Meter

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the gro… read more

Similar categories in Crissy Van Meter's Creatures book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. Mobility

By: Lydia Kiesling

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kiesling's Mobility book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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11. A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more

Similar categories in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

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12. The Nursery

By: Szilvia Molnar

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more

Similar categories in Szilvia Molnar's The Nursery book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I want you as much as I fear you"

-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

Cover of A Deceptive Devotion (Lane Winslow #6) by Iona Whishaw

13. A Deceptive Devotion (Lane Winslow #6)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.22

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Wedding bells, a grisly murder, and a defecting Russian spy bring drama to King’s Cove in the newes… read more

Similar categories in Iona Whishaw's A Deceptive Devotion (Lane Winslow #6) book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka

14. The Great Offshore Grounds

By: Vanessa Veselka

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and cast… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • womens
  • novels
  • queer
"Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it t…"

-Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds

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15. The Revisioners

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

3.77

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly po… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's The Revisioners book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He's a black man in this world," Major has scolded me. "You got him used to sweetness when life gon' be tart."

-Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The Revisioners

Cover of The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

16. The Noh Mask Murder

By: Akimitsu Takagi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more

Similar categories in Akimitsu Takagi's The Noh Mask Murder book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • fiction
Cover of Girlhood by Melissa Febos

17. Girlhood

By: Melissa Febos

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Girlhood book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • audiobook
  • womens
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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18. On Java Road

By: Lawrence Osborne

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Osborne's On Java Road book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher R. Beha

19. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

By: Christopher R. Beha

4.07

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher dec… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Heartbreaker

By: Claudia Dey

3.57

Format: 261 pages, ebook

A poignant new novel that combines humour and heartache, from the brilliant mind of Governor Genera… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Dey's Heartbreaker book and Vanessa Veselka's The Great Offshore Grounds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan

21. If I Had Two Wings

By: Randall Kenan

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When Randall Kenan’s first collection was published, the New York Times called it “nothing short of… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

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Transform Your Habits

Book, Line and Sinker (Library Lover's Mystery, #3)

JM , Jenn McKinlay

3.95

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Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

Ann Cleeves

4.14

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Disappearing Earth

Julia Phillips

3.84

Transform Your Habits

We Were the Universe

Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Maud Ventura

3.68

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Miranda July

3.81

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Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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