13 Top fiction books like His Favorites by Kate Walbert

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His Favorites

By: Kate Walbert

3.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History o…

"So here is what actually happened, what happens still: the scene on its parallel track to now, to me: linear and constant, never passing into the past, never speeding into the future."

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

"So here is what actually happened, what happens still: the scene on its parallel track to now, to me: linear and constant, never passing into the past, never speeding into the future."

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

"So here is what actually happened, what happens still: the scene on its parallel track to now, to me: linear and constant, never passing into the past, never speeding into the future."

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

"Thank you for listening, he wrote. Dear Beautiful, he wrote. I know I can trust you, he wrote. I think of you all day, he wrote. I wonder how you taste, he wrote. Secret-keeper, he wrote."

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

If you liked the fiction plot in His Favorites by Kate Walbert , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Girls from Corona del Mar

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fiercely beautiful debut blazing with emotion: a major first novel about friendships made in yout… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's The Girls from Corona del Mar book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"Non ci meritiamo la primavera, e non ci meritiamo nemmeno l'inverno. Esistono e basta."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?"

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

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2. Excavation: A Memoir

By: Wendy C. Ortiz

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the … read more

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3. You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Peggy Ramundo , Kate Kelly

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

With "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!, " Kelly and Ramundo bring together their considerab… read more

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4. My Latest Grievance

By: Elinor Lipman

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

My Latest Grievance stars the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the "Eloise of Dewing College." B… read more

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5. Exit, Pursued by a Bear

By: E.K. Johnston

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Veronica Mars meets William Shakespeare in E.K. Johnston's latest brave and unforgettable heroine. … read more

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6. A Freewheelin' Time: Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Bob Dylan and Me

By: Suze Rotolo

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

A Freewheelin' Timeis Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the imme… read more

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7. The Blueprint

By: Rae Giana Rashad

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A captivating debut exploring power imbalances, bodily autonomy, love, and the generational legacy … read more

Similar categories in Rae Giana Rashad's The Blueprint book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. The New Naturals

By: Gabriel Bump

2.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely n… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of His Favorites by Kate Walbert

9. His Favorites

By: Kate Walbert

3.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History o… read more

Similar categories in Kate Walbert's His Favorites book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So here is what actually happened, what happens still: the scene on its parallel track to now, to me: linear and constant, never passing into the past, never speeding into the future."

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

"Thank you for listening, he wrote. Dear Beautiful, he wrote. I know I can trust you, he wrote. I think of you all day, he wrote. I wonder how you taste, he wrote. Secret-keeper, he wrote."

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

"I don’t know how others reconcile what happened before with what happens now. For me, the past is a cool, dark pond in which I will always stand partially submerged. That’s just the way it is."

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

"I would leave the story here-the snow erasing the day so that none of the rest of it ever happened, like when a film gets stuck in a projector, the images consumed, distorted, vanished. All traces go…"

-Kate Walbert, His Favorites

Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

10. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • audiobook
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11. The Astrology House

By: Carinn Jade

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A group of wealthy Manhattanites escapes to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentment… read more

Similar categories in Carinn Jade's The Astrology House book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Being Lolita: A Memoir

By: Alisson Wood

4.20

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high … read more

Similar categories in Alisson Wood's Being Lolita: A Memoir book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • coming of age
  • feminism
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands."

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

"I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering."

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

"That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be bot…"

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

"He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin. And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal k…"

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

Cover of Putney by Sofka Zinovieff

13. Putney

By: Sofka Zinovieff

3.95

Format: 384 pages, ebook

In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and… read more

Similar categories in Sofka Zinovieff's Putney book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes. ~Ralph"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

"Everything flows. You never step into the same river twice. Everything is changing all the time. ~Ralph"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

"A slow-motion hunt so gradual that the prey didn’t even realise it was being pursued, and would eventually just lie down to be mauled. ~Jane"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

"It is quite a big deal. It's so extraordinary that we female humans should be linked to the moon and the tides. It'd sound like science fiction if you made it up – mysterious planetary forces making …"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

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14. If We Had Known

By: Elise Juska

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting new novel about one … read more

Similar categories in Elise Juska's If We Had Known book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The…"

-Elise Juska, If We Had Known

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15. Mr. Breakfast

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Graham Patterson’s life has hit a dead end. His career as a comedian is failing. The love of his li… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Mr. Breakfast book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Wilderness of Girls

By: Madeline Claire Franklin

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching YA debut about a troubled teen who discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and … read more

Similar categories in Madeline Claire Franklin's The Wilderness of Girls book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Art of Small Talk

By: Casey Wilson

3.80

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

Hilarious and practical advice for how to up your small talk game from comedians, actors and self-a… read more

Similar categories in Casey Wilson's The Art of Small Talk book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • audiobook
Cover of Never Blow a Kiss (Secret Society of Governess Spies, #1) by Lindsay Lovise

18. Never Blow a Kiss (Secret Society of Governess Spies, #1)

By: Lindsay Lovise

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The utterly charming Emily Leverton has a dark past and is determined to leave it behind in her res… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Lovise's Never Blow a Kiss (Secret Society of Governess Spies, #1) book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Majesties

By: Tiffany Tsao

3.29

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting tale about the secrets and betrayals that can accompany exorbitant wealth, two sis… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Tsao's The Majesties book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet by Molly   Morris

20. Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet

By: Molly Morris

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Every ten years in the strange little town of Lennon, California, one person is chosen to return fr… read more

Similar categories in Molly Morris's Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Kate Walbert's His Favorites

  • feminism
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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The Girls from Corona del Mar

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3.59

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His Favorites

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