10 Best short stories books like Bad Thoughts by Nada Alic

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Bad Thoughts

By: Nada Alic

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and co…

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1. I'll Tell You in Person

By: Chloé Caldwell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

Flailing in jobs, failing at love, getting addicted and un-addicted to people, food, and drugs--I'l… read more

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  • short stories
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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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • 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

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3. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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4. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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5. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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7. Out There

By: Kate Folk

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kate Folk's Out There book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • audiobook
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8. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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9. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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10. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
"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

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11. 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 Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • 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

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12. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Pure Colour book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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13. The Novelist

By: Jordan Castro

3.41

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Castro's The Novelist book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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16. The Nursery

By: Szilvia Molnar

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I want you as much as I fear you"

-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

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17. Hangman

By: Maya Binyam

3.59

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • 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

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19. Normal Women

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled… read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Normal Women book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

Similar categories in Allie Rowbottom's Aesthetica book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

By: Chelsea Hodson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Hodson's Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • audiobook
  • womens
  • short stories
  • contemporary
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

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22. Nobody, Somebody, Anybody

By: Kelly McClorey

3.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a self-made “pla… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McClorey's Nobody, Somebody, Anybody book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
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23. The Book of Ayn

By: Lexi Freiman

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"

-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn

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24. Bad Thoughts

By: Nada Alic

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and co… read more

Similar categories in Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
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25. Adult Drama: And Other Essays

By: Natalie Beach

3.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin

26. Revenge of the Scapegoat

By: Caren Beilin

3.44

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed le… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Hurricane Girl

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice (“A cupcake that turns out to be nutri… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Night Bus

By: Zuo Ma

3.16

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Quando cala l’oscurità, i mezzi pubblici smettono di circolare. Il solo modo che hai per tornare a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Certain American States: Stories

By: Catherine Lacey

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists comes Certain American States, whose insightf… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Lacey's Certain American States: Stories book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
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30. Heartbroke

By: Chelsea Bieker

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Godshot and “a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Bieker's Heartbroke book and Nada Alic's Bad Thoughts

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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