16 must-read fiction books like American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna

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American Fever

By: Dur e Aziz Amna

3.94

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice.”…

"All these prelapsarian significances came later, though, because life is lived in one direction and understood in the other."

-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

"All these prelapsarian significances came later, though, because life is lived in one direction and understood in the other."

-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

"All I know is that the world keeps spinning, and only at the end of each night, when my head is on your shoulder, does it stop long enough for me to comprehend."

-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

"All I know is that the world keeps spinning, and only at the end of each night, when my head is on your shoulder, does it stop long enough for me to comprehend."

-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

If you liked the fiction plot in American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Unseen World

By: None

3.92

Format: 290 pages,

Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who direct… read more

Similar categories in None's The Unseen World book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Kartography

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents… read more

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3. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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4. Mother of Strangers

By: Suad Amiry

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beg… read more

Similar categories in Suad Amiry's Mother of Strangers book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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5. The Book of Everlasting Things

By: Aanchal Malhotra

4.16

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more

Similar categories in Aanchal Malhotra's The Book of Everlasting Things book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • adult fiction
  • pakistan
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

Similar categories in Etaf Rum's Evil Eye book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

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7. Your House Will Pay

By: Steph Cha

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in L.A., following two families—one Korean-American… read more

Similar categories in Steph Cha's Your House Will Pay book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Don’t martyr yourself. Your workers’ comp won’t cover it.' --Shawn's boss, Manny."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"But she held tight to all her principles, and the most important of these was that family came first."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"Every day there had been rotten cops in the news and still she had been bamboozled. ‘I mean, they’re supposed to protect people, right? How can they be so bad at their jobs?’ ‘They protect people fro…"

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

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8. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

By: Rabia Chaudry

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate me… read more

Similar categories in Rabia Chaudry's Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • audiobook
"Every person, I'd argue, has the right to pursue what feeling good means to them."

-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

"But when I dug deeper, I realized the self-loathing was less about what I looked like on the outside, and more about feeling out of control and helpless."

-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

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9. When We Were Sisters

By: Fatimah Asghar

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's When We Were Sisters book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

By: Bushra Rehman

3.98

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more

Similar categories in Bushra Rehman's Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

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11. The Return of Faraz Ali

By: Aamina Ahmad

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more

Similar categories in Aamina Ahmad's The Return of Faraz Ali book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • literary fiction
  • pakistan
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Between Two Moons

By: Aisha Abdel Gawad

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Abdel Gawad's Between Two Moons book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. American Fever

By: Dur e Aziz Amna

3.94

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice.”… read more

Similar categories in Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • coming of age
  • pakistan
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"All these prelapsarian significances came later, though, because life is lived in one direction and understood in the other."

-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

"All I know is that the world keeps spinning, and only at the end of each night, when my head is on your shoulder, does it stop long enough for me to comprehend."

-Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

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14. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Masquerade

By: O.O. Sangoyomi

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more

Similar categories in O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Just Another Epic Love Poem

By: Parisa Akhbari

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. … read more

Similar categories in Parisa Akhbari's Just Another Epic Love Poem book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. Bluff

By: Michael Kardos

3.97

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Michael Kardos brilliantly constructs his new novel Bluff as a magician would, delivering a perfect… read more

Similar categories in Michael Kardos's Bluff book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir

By: Priyanka Mattoo

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's peripatetic search for home, … read more

Similar categories in Priyanka Mattoo's Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • audiobook
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19. Beautiful Days: Stories

By: Zach Williams

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a stagg… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination

By: Sadie Dingfelder

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind, and investigates the neuroscience of sig… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Dingfelder's Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • audiobook
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21. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

By: Sami Sage

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more

Similar categories in Sami Sage's Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives book and Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever

  • audiobook
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"

-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

12 must-read contemporary books like American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna

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The Unseen World

None

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Evil Eye

Etaf Rum

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Your House Will Pay

Steph Cha

4.09

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28 Best fiction books like Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Family Meal

Bryan Washington

3.56

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