19 best-selling fiction books like Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

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Yolk

By: Mary H.K. Choi

3.96

Format: 400 pages, None

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two e…

"Marriages are the original tiny cult."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"People aren't abandoning you just because they go."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's easier to watch myself be sad than actually FEEL SAD."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

If you liked the fiction plot in Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, Alison  Watts

1. Sweet Bean Paste

By: Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dre… read more

Similar categories in Durian Sukegawa's Sweet Bean Paste book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Cover of All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

3. All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's All the Lovers in the Night book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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4. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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5. Disorientation

By: Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Hsieh Chou's Disorientation book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

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6. Bunny

By: Mona Awad

3.50

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. … read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Bunny book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"

-Mona Awad, Bunny

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7. Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata

3.69

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,0… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A convenience store is a world of sound."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

Cover of If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

8. If I Had Your Face

By: Frances Cha

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extr… read more

Similar categories in Frances Cha's If I Had Your Face book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
" For my mother, who taught me how to hold on to a dream "

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing."

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touch…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and t…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

Cover of Severance by Ling  Ma

9. Severance

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ma's Severance book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"New York has a way of forgetting you."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."

-Ling Ma, Severance

Cover of If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

10. If You Could See the Sun

By: Ann Liang

4.02

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's If You Could See the Sun book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Yeah."

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"Hmph,"

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"Yan Yan!"

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"What your mama always say? If you not good person, you're nothing. Nothing."

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

Cover of Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

11. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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12. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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13. Heaven

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's Heaven book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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14. Crying in H Mart

By: Michelle Zauner

4.26

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unfli… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

Cover of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

15. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Cover of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki by Baek Se-hee

16. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

By: Baek Se-hee

3.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more

Similar categories in Baek Se-hee's I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • mental health
"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Cover of Almond by Sohn Won-Pyung

17. Almond

By: Sohn Won-Pyung

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster.  One of the monsters is me. … read more

Similar categories in Sohn Won-Pyung's Almond book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"We have to be tougher in this tough world."

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

"Can the word "love" be thrown around so casually like that?"

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

"I drifted off to sleep only at daybreak when the sky turned sapphire."

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

"You're basically a blank canvas. Better to fill it up with good things rather than bad things."

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

Cover of Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

18. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Milk Fed book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • romance
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

Cover of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin

19. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

By: Emily R. Austin

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s per… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • mental health
"Think about it,"

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"My death, and the death of everyone I love, is inevitable. Pine again."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they've morphed into."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"I am inside of an ecosystem I don't belong in... I feel like a foreign object inside a body, waiting to be rejected."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Cover of Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

20. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

Cover of Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

21. Yolk

By: Mary H.K. Choi

3.96

Format: 400 pages, None

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two e… read more

Similar categories in Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk book and Mary H.K. Choi's Yolk

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Marriages are the original tiny cult."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"People aren't abandoning you just because they go."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's easier to watch myself be sad than actually FEEL SAD."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

21 Best contemporary books like Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

Transform Your Habits

Sweet Bean Paste

Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

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18 Best contemporary books like Severance by Ling Ma

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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

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