20 Top fiction books like Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho

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Similar categories in Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's Yerba Buena book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• romance
• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

Similar categories in Elaine Hsieh Chou's Disorientation book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• adult
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

Similar categories in Daniel Black's Don't Cry for Me book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"I want readers to reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much."

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

"Hurt is worse than anger, you know. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you."

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

"Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed."

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

"Pride can really kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind. Grandma used to say, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a…"

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Olga Dies Dreaming book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• romance
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"

-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

Similar categories in Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• adult
• audiobook

"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

Similar categories in Erika Krouse's Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• adult
• audiobook

"I felt a little bit like crying and instead ate more cheese."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

"Nothing's more comforting than the sound of rain when you're not in it."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

"When people are ashamed, they cover their faces. The face is where shame lives."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

"People always rely on the incompetent idiot defense—it doesn’t hurt them. Look at Iran-Contra. They named an airport after that guy."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

Similar categories in Sara Nović's True Biz book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"No one is comforted by salad."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."

-Jessica George, Maame

"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."

-Jessica George, Maame

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."

-Jessica George, Maame

"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."

-Jessica George, Maame

Similar categories in Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

Similar categories in Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• romance
• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

Similar categories in Julia May Jonas's Vladimir book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

Similar categories in Jane Pek's The Verifiers (Claudia Lin) book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't yet understand."

-Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)

Similar categories in Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Lots of people are all cold and heartless. Who do you think works in a prison? Who do you think works on death row? It's a job."

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

"A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world."

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

"Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, al…"

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

Similar categories in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"This time tomorrow, where will we be?"

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Forward, that was the idea. Until the future, whatever it was going to be."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"It's not about the time. It's about how you spend it. Where you put your energy."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

Similar categories in Daphne Palasi Andreades's Brown Girls book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• romance
• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Jennifer E. Smith's The Unsinkable Greta James book and Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane

• romance
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is, being a parent is mostly just reacting. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. You give what you can. And at the end of the day, most of it is just being there."

-Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James