8 must-read literary fiction books like A House Is a Body by Shruti Swamy

Cover of A House Is a Body by Shruti Swamy

A House Is a Body

By: Shruti Swamy

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

INTRODUCING A DAZZLING NEW LITERARY VOICE In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collectio…

"The house is a body, a body houses souls."

-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body

"The house is a body, a body houses souls."

-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body

"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting on it."

-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body

"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting on it."

-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body

If you liked the literary fiction plot in A House Is a Body by Shruti Swamy , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story by Jeremy Grimaldi

1. A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story

By: Jeremy Grimaldi

3.45

Format: 336 pages, ebook

2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — WinnerA sinister plot by a young woman left her mot… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

3. The Sweet Hereafter

By: Russell Banks

4.23

Format: 128 pages,

When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

4. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

By: Daniyal Mueenuddin

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale

By: Ian Morgan Cron

4.32

Format: 312 pages,

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6. A Death in the Family

By: James Agee , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published … read more

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7. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Shruti Swamy's A House Is a Body

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of El libro de Tamar by Tamara Kamenszain

8. El libro de Tamar

By: Tamara Kamenszain

4.02

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Después de dejarlo olvidado durante quince años en el fondo de un cajón, Tamar, la narradora, se re… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Faraway World: Stories by Patricia Engel

9. The Faraway World: Stories

By: Patricia Engel

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

* A New York Times Editors’ Choice * From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

10. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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11. Last Tang Standing

By: Lauren Ho

3.52

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic."

-Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

Cover of A House Is a Body by Shruti Swamy

12. A House Is a Body

By: Shruti Swamy

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

INTRODUCING A DAZZLING NEW LITERARY VOICE In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collectio… read more

Similar categories in Shruti Swamy's A House Is a Body book and Shruti Swamy's A House Is a Body

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • indian literature
  • short stories
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The house is a body, a body houses souls."

-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body

"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting …"

-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body

Cover of The Owl and the Nightingale by Unknown

13. The Owl and the Nightingale

By: Unknown

4.09

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl , Simon Armitage … read more

Similar categories in Unknown's The Owl and the Nightingale book and Shruti Swamy's A House Is a Body

  • literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said."

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

"If Beauty called it didn't stay, & Virtue looked the other way. Another charge that I will file: your habits, like your looks, are vile."

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

"The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined…"

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

"Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will n…"

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

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14. River Spirit

By: Leila Aboulela

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

Cover of The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid

15. The Memory Monster

By: Yishai Sarid

4.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 2020 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist “… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

16. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

Cover of Scout's Honor by Lily  Anderson

17. Scout's Honor

By: Lily Anderson

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monste… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin

18. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy book and Shruti Swamy's A House Is a Body

  • literature
"In many college English courses the words “myth"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Cover of Inundación: El lenguaje secreto del que estamos hechos by Eugenia Almeida

19. Inundación: El lenguaje secreto del que estamos hechos

By: Eugenia Almeida

4.49

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Un alfabeto personal, que procura hallar el sentido de la escritura en un enjambre de historias que… read more

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20. Guli kafbáturinn

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson

3.93

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Miðaldra rithöfundur staddur í almenningsgarði í London á brýnt erindi við Paul McCartney sem situr… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Halsey Street by Naima Coster

21. Halsey Street

By: Naima Coster

3.54

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to be… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"They smoked and drank as if they were already defeated, hardened, and long out of art school."

-Naima Coster, Halsey Street

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