17 must-read fiction books like Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin

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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…

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1. First Love

By: Gwendoline Riley

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From "one of Britain's most original young writers" (The Observer), a blistering account of a marri… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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2. Event Factory

By: Renee Gladman

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Fiction. A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

3. After Claude

By: None

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat." That at least is how Harriet sees things… read more

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4. The Weight of Things

By: None , Marianne Fritz

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only transl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
  • novels
"..the present is always the best time to spread your arms wide and embrace the whole world, all at once, as best you can."

-None, The Weight of Things

"...the ideal legal form being, it goes without saying, the one in which the least taxes are paid and the company is least vulnerable to any official prying."

-None, The Weight of Things

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5. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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  • literature
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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6. 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
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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7. 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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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women

By: Molly Llewellyn

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more

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  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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10. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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11. 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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12. 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

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  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Hearing Test

By: Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

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14. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Dutton's Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other book and Caren Beilin's Revenge of the Scapegoat

  • contemporary
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15. The Guest Lecture

By: Martin Riker

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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16. Some of Them Will Carry Me

By: Giada Scodellaro

3.65

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Giada Scodellaro’s debut is a boldly original collection of stories ranging in length, style, and t… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. 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

Similar categories in Caren Beilin's Revenge of the Scapegoat book and Caren Beilin's Revenge of the Scapegoat

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • novella
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • surreal
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19. Temporary

By: Hilary Leichter

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre pl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Living is also a state of mourning."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

"It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

"No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

"Life is a stranger in a crowd whose intentions are unclear and, come to think of it, so is death."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

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20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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21. 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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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

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