11 must-read fiction books like All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

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All Grown Up

By: Jami Attenberg

3.39

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about …

"I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer."

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer."

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about being alive."

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about being alive."

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

If you liked the fiction plot in All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. All at Sea

By: Decca Aitkenhead

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, a… read more

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2. American Housewife

By: Helen Ellis

3.91

Format: 144 pages, ebook

A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, A… read more

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3. Chemistry

By: Weike Wang

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of thi… read more

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4. Lucky You: A Novel

By: None

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Three women, early twenties, find themselves aimlessly adrift in Erika Carter's fierce and darkly f… read more

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5. Goodbye, Vitamin

By: Rachel Khong

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her… read more

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6. Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema

By: Anne Helen Petersen

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Gossip meets history--a compulsively readable collection of Hollywood's most notorious clashes and … read more

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7. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
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9. All Grown Up

By: Jami Attenberg

3.39

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer."

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about b…"

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and…"

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

"Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, b…"

-Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

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10. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

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  • audiobook
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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11. Very Nice

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.24

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor. Zahid Azzam never planned to becom… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I was tall and biracial and sexy. But then there was Winnie. Her blond hair fell straight like a pane of glass. This was who my Jewish babysitter wanted?"

-Marcy Dermansky, Very Nice

"My husband’s girlfriend worked for an airline, but she was not a flight attendant, like I’d first assumed. She was an actual pilot. I supposed that made it better."

-Marcy Dermansky, Very Nice

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12. The Wild Laughter

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.83

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

It's 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black ar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Red Car

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her “dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups” (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky off… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I …"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

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14. See: Loss. See Also: Love.

By: Yukiko Tominaga

3.64

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

By: Najwa Zebian

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wise and tender guide to coming to terms with impermanence and recognizing that change is the for… read more

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16. I'll Eat When I'm Dead

By: Barbara Bourland

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Every weekday morning, as the sun rose above Sixth Avenue, a peerless crop of women-frames poised, … read more

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  • womens
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others

By: Amy Thielen

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

One of Food & Wine's Best Cookbooks of Fall 2023 From beloved writer and cook Amy Thielen comes a … read more

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  • adult
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18. Everyone I Know is Dying

By: Emily Slapper

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Wrong Heaven

By: Amy Bonnaffons

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"In her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes about transformation, each stor… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Plays Well with Others

By: Sophie Brickman

3.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She’s a mother of three young children; her crypto-VC husban… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Idle Hands

By: Cassondra Windwalker

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

You can call me Ella. You generally assign me a whole host of other preposterous monikers. I think … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

12 must-read contemporary books like All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

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All Grown Up

Jami Attenberg

3.39

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Very Nice

Marcy Dermansky

3.24

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Emma Cline

3.29

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Help Wanted

Adelle Waldman

3.62

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