10 Best adult fiction books like Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

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Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.…

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1. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Cover of Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • ireland
Cover of Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

4. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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5. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

6. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

7. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

8. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • irish literature
  • ireland
Cover of Playground by Richard Powers

9. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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10. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

Similar categories in Amy Twigg's Spoilt Creatures book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

11. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio

12. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Rio's Graveyard Shift book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson

13. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Think Again book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • romance
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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15. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

16. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

17. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

18. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

19. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of She's Always Hungry: Stories by Eliza  Clark

20. She's Always Hungry: Stories

By: Eliza Clark

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's She's Always Hungry: Stories book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1) by B.K. Borison

21. First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)

By: B.K. Borison

4.55

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story… read more

Similar categories in B.K. Borison's First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1) book and Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

21 Best fiction books like Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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Orbital

Samantha Harvey

3.73

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Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

4.34

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Monika Kim

3.89

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