5 Best adult fiction books like That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung

Cover of That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung

That Time I Loved You

By: Carrianne Leung

3.92

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Life is never as perfect as it seems. Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new…

If you liked the adult fiction plot in That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Palo Alto

By: James Franco

3.24

Format: 0 pages,

A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and… read more

Similar categories in James Franco's Palo Alto book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Any Known Blood

By: Lawrence Hill

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Spanning five generations, sweeping across a century and a half of almost unknown history, this acc… read more

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3. The Gods Lie

By: None

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

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4. The Valley of Amazement

By: Amy Tan

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity, that mov… read more

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5. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more

Similar categories in Souvankham Thammavongsa's How to Pronounce Knife: Stories book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

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6. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

Similar categories in Anuja Varghese's Chrysalis book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
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7. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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8. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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9. Brother

By: David Chariandy

3.99

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."

-David Chariandy, Brother

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10. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

By: Neil King Jr.

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unfor… read more

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11. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
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12. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
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13. Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories

By: Maria Reva

3.80

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment bui… read more

Similar categories in Maria Reva's Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
"For the rest of the day, Daniil pretended to work while the combine pretended to pay him."

-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories

"The internat had taught her well: as soon as you want something, you lack it; and if you do get it, it can easily be taken away. But this lesson came at a cost—a dry unfeeling clump had formed in her…"

-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories

"Candies Available for Civilian Consumption: Masha and Bear / Bear in the North / Little Bear / Clumsy Bear / Stratosphere / Strike! / Brighter! / Little Squirrel / Thumbelina / Moscow in Evening / Ki…"

-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories

Cover of That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung

14. That Time I Loved You

By: Carrianne Leung

3.92

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Life is never as perfect as it seems. Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new… read more

Similar categories in Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • family
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15. Seven Steeples

By: Sara Baume

3.53

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"

-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples

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16. The Damages

By: Genevieve Scott

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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17. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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18. An Ocean of Minutes

By: Thea Lim

3.42

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simp… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"Just as the invention of air travel had made it easy to go, but no easier to leave, the invention of time travel made time easy to pass, but no easier to endure."

-Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes

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19. Wish You Were Here

By: John Allore

3.63

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

As compelling as Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark or James Ellroy's My Dark Places, thi… read more

Similar categories in John Allore's Wish You Were Here book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • canada
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20. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Monkey Beach

By: Eden Robinson

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more

Similar categories in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach book and Carrianne Leung's That Time I Loved You

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • canada
  • contemporary
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

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James Franco

3.24

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3.85

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3.96

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Shyam Selvadurai

4.29

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Joy Kogawa

4.88

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