18 Top fiction books like The Long Answer by Anna Hogeland

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The Long Answer

By: Anna Hogeland

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound an…

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • feminism
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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3. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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4. Flight

By: Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Arresting and powerful,  Flight  examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Steger Strong's Flight book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

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5. Games and Rituals

By: Katherine Heiny

3.82

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Heiny's Games and Rituals book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some people say that migraines feel like bad hangovers. And some people say that migraines feel like headaches that pulse. And some people say that migraines feel like stomach flu in your head. But w…"

-Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals

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6. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

Similar categories in Meg Howrey's They're Going to Love You book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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7. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Alpert Florin's My Last Innocent Year book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Jezus umarł w Polsce

By: Mikołaj Grynberg

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kto ratuje jedno życie - ratuje cały świat. Tu była cisza spokój, ptaszki śpiewały, aż któregoś … read more

Similar categories in Mikołaj Grynberg's Jezus umarł w Polsce book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • audiobook
Cover of The Nursery by Szilvia Molnar

10. 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

Similar categories in Szilvia Molnar's The Nursery book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

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

-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

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11. West Farragut Avenue

By: Agnieszka Jelonek

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Myślałam, że piszę książkę o pamięci, ale napisałam love story. Chciałam stworzyć plot, ale prawdzi… read more

Similar categories in Agnieszka Jelonek's West Farragut Avenue book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • fiction
Cover of Toń by Ishbel Szatrawska

12. Toń

By: Ishbel Szatrawska

4.30

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Kiedy Eichmedien stały się Nakomiadami? Kiedy Rastenburg był Rastemborkiem i kiedy stał się Kętrzyn… read more

Similar categories in Ishbel Szatrawska's Toń book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • fiction
Cover of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

13. We All Want Impossible Things

By: Catherine Newman

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's We All Want Impossible Things book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

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14. Juno

By: Anna Dziewit-Meller

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Juno” to dowcipna, nieco złośliwa, a zarazem ogromnie smutna opowieść o rodzinie, ambicji, kredyta… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dziewit-Meller's Juno book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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16. The Long Answer

By: Anna Hogeland

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound an… read more

Similar categories in Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Spitzenreiterinnen

By: Jovana Reisinger

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Lisa kann keine Kinder bekommen, wird verlassen, rastet aus. Laura fiebert ihrer Hochzeit entgegen,… read more

Similar categories in Jovana Reisinger's Spitzenreiterinnen book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

By: Jenni Quilter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A provocative examination of reproductive technologies that questions our understanding of fertilit… read more

Similar categories in Jenni Quilter's The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • audiobook
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19. Mother in the Dark

By: Kayla Maiuri

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. Whe… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Maiuri's Mother in the Dark book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. Noc szpilek

By: Santiago Roncagliolo

3.83

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Porywający od pierwszego zdania thriller autorstwa jednego z najważniejszych współczesnych południo… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Roncagliolo's Noc szpilek book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The World After Alice

By: Lauren Aliza Green

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Aliza Green's The World After Alice book and Anna Hogeland's The Long Answer

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

14 Top contemporary books like The Long Answer by Anna Hogeland

Transform Your Habits

The Guest

Emma Cline

3.29

Transform Your Habits

Come and Get It

Kiley Reid

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Flight

Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny

3.82

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20 Best fiction books like The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green

Transform Your Habits

Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Transform Your Habits

By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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