10 must-read novels books like The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky

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The Red Car

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her “dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups” (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky off…

"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

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1. 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 Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • audiobook
"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

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2. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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3. 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 Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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4. 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 Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • 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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6. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

Similar categories in Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • 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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8. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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9. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Hot Springs Drive

By: Lindsay Hunter

3.52

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Jackie loved her best friend Theresa from the moment they met nearly fifteen years ago. Now, Theres… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Hunter's Hot Springs Drive book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Reboot

By: Justin Taylor

3.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture,… read more

Similar categories in Justin Taylor's Reboot book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Bad Animals

By: Sarah Braunstein

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation throu… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Braunstein's Bad Animals book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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 Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • 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. Swanna in Love

By: Jennifer Belle

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky

17. The Red Car

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her “dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups” (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky off… read more

Similar categories in Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I …"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

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18. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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19. Doxology

By: Nell Zink

3.45

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape toge… read more

Similar categories in Nell Zink's Doxology book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" by Emma Specter

21. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"

By: Emma Specter

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more

Similar categories in Emma Specter's More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" book and Marcy Dermansky's The Red Car

  • adult
  • audiobook

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