11 best-selling novels books like Glassworks by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

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Glassworks

By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four gene…

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1. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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3. The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

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4. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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6. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"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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7. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Glassworks

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Glassworks

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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11. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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12. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"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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13. Take What You Need

By: Idra Novey

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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14. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Glassworks

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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15. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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16. People Collide

By: Isle McElroy

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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17. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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18. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • queer
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19. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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20. Alice Sadie Celine

By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

3.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore book and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Glassworks

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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24. The Limits

By: Nell Freudenberger

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. A Right Worthy Woman

By: Ruth P. Watson

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve , a “ remarkable and stirring novel” (Pa… read more

Similar categories in Ruth P. Watson's A Right Worthy Woman book and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Glassworks

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. We Are a Haunting

By: Tyriek White

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Following three generations of East New Yorkers; a debut, coming-of-age novel that mixes magical re… read more

Similar categories in Tyriek White's We Are a Haunting book and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Glassworks

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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27. Loot

By: Tania James

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."

-Tania James, Loot

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28. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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29. Glassworks

By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four gene… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

30. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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31. Rough Trade

By: Katrina Carrasco

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers’ mark… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer

31 Best fiction books like Glassworks by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Transform Your Habits

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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The Great Transition

Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Transform Your Habits

City of Laughter

Temim Fruchter

3.78

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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