5 must-read literary fiction books like It's a Privilege Just to Be Here by Emma Sasaki

Cover of It's a Privilege Just to Be Here by Emma Sasaki

It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

By: Emma Sasaki

3.82

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This debut novel pulls at the threads in the (cashmere) sweater of academia in a witty take-down of…

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Cover of youthjuice by E.K. Sathue

1. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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2. Not Like Other Girls

By: Meredith Adamo

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Adamo's Not Like Other Girls book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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3. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Luna's Tell Me Who You Are book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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4. The Garden

By: Clare Beams

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more

Similar categories in Clare Beams's The Garden book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery
  • fiction
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5. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's One of Our Kind book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of It's a Privilege Just to Be Here by Emma Sasaki

7. It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

By: Emma Sasaki

3.82

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This debut novel pulls at the threads in the (cashmere) sweater of academia in a witty take-down of… read more

Similar categories in Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • academia
  • realistic fiction
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers by Abraham  Chang

8. 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 Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Tiananmen Square

By: Lai Wen

4.10

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

An epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the y… read more

Similar categories in Lai Wen's Tiananmen Square book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My father. He was, I realize now, rather small for a man, both lean and compact, but as a small child you inhabit a land of giants. And fathers are the tallest giants of all."

-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

"As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin to illness, something that left a person weak and in some way less than themselves. But I ne…"

-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

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10. Nice Work, Nora November

By: Julia London

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After a near death experience, one woman creates her "reverse" bucket the things she wants to do a… read more

Similar categories in Julia London's Nice Work, Nora November book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Real Life and Other Fictions

By: Susan Coll

3.29

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cassie Klein has always used stories to help her fly, but now her plot points aren’t lining up. … read more

Similar categories in Susan Coll's Real Life and Other Fictions book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Pink Glass Houses

By: Asha Elias

3.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, … read more

Similar categories in Asha Elias's Pink Glass Houses book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. Society of Lies

By: Lauren Ling Brown

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman is found dead on her college campus, her sister doesn't believe it was an accide… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Ling Brown's Society of Lies book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"That’s the thing about love, isn’t it? When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vis…"

-Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

"I would remember her hair first: frozen solid and dark red with blood, matted with twigs and dirt. A bloody gash split her head, and yet her expression was calm and serene, as if she were asleep, her…"

-Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

Cover of Secrets of Rose Briar Hall by Kelsey James

14. Secrets of Rose Briar Hall

By: Kelsey James

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this Gilded Age gothic homage to “Gaslight” starring Ingrid Bergman, a wealthy young newlywed in… read more

Similar categories in Kelsey James's Secrets of Rose Briar Hall book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of We Carry the Sea in Our Hands by Janie Kim

16. We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

By: Janie Kim

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Told with poetic prose and an imaginative voice, this “beautifully composed [and] original” (Joyce … read more

Similar categories in Janie Kim's We Carry the Sea in Our Hands book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine by Thao  Votang

17. Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

By: Thao Votang

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese-American Linh Ly’s … read more

Similar categories in Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

18. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kiser's Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

19. You Will Never Be Me

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as v… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's You Will Never Be Me book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho

20. The Friend Zone Experiment

By: Zen Cho

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous―and … read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's The Friend Zone Experiment book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of With Love, Miss Americanah by Jane Igharo

21. With Love, Miss Americanah

By: Jane Igharo

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sisi Americanah—the Young Adult contemporary romance debut from Jane Igharo—sees a teenager move fr… read more

Similar categories in Jane Igharo's With Love, Miss Americanah book and Emma Sasaki's It's a Privilege Just to Be Here

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 must-read fiction books like It's a Privilege Just to Be Here by Emma Sasaki

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E.K. Sathue

3.21

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Not Like Other Girls

Meredith Adamo

4.13

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Tell Me Who You Are

Louisa Luna

3.57

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Clare Beams

3.33

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House of Glass

Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

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The Debutantes

Olivia Worley

3.81

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I Need You to Read This

Jessa Maxwell

3.54

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3.87

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