16 must-read fiction books like I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall

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I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

By: Mariah Stovall

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor…

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Cover of Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna

1. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • music
  • punk
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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2. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

Cover of Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein

3. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

Similar categories in Emmeline Clein's Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

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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

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • 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. 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 Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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7. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

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

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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8. 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 Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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10. The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Min's The Fetishist book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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11. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

12. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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13. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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14. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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15. Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more

Similar categories in Celine Saintclare's Sugar, Baby book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

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16. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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17. Company

By: Shannon Sanders

3.92

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Sanders's Company book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

By: Mariah Stovall

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor… read more

Similar categories in Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • music
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • punk
  • adult
Cover of 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers by Abraham  Chang

19. 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers

By: Abraham Chang

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Chang's 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

20. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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21. Black Punk Now

By: James Spooner

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by gen… read more

Similar categories in James Spooner's Black Punk Now book and Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

  • music
  • punk

16 Best contemporary books like I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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17 must-read fiction books like Company by Shannon Sanders

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Kate Christensen

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