20 Top fiction books like A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz Grossman

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A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear…

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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4. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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5. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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6. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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7. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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8. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

Similar categories in Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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10. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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11. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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12. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Acts of Forgiveness

By: Maura Cheeks

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more

Similar categories in Maura Cheeks's Acts of Forgiveness book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

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14. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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16. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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17. The Split

By: Kit Frick

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Jane Connor is resigned to being the “plain Jane” of her family—pragmatic and dependable—so unlike … read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's The Split book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Sleeping Giants

By: Rene Denfeld

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, a compelling and poignant story … read more

Similar categories in Rene Denfeld's Sleeping Giants book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • climate change
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
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20. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

Similar categories in Shilpi Somaya Gowda's A Great Country book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's One of Our Kind book and Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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