10 Top contemporary books like City of a Thousand Gates by Bee Sacks

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City of a Thousand Gates

By: Bee Sacks

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of great humanity, compassion, and astonishing immediacy, this inventive and unique debut c…

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1. Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel

By: Dan Ephron

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year. The assassination of Israeli Prime Minis… read more

Similar categories in Dan Ephron's Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • religion
  • israel
  • jewish

2. The World to Come

By: Dara Horn

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thie… read more

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3. The Emperor's Children

By: Claire Messud

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a literary inte… read more

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4. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Selected by The New York Times Book Reviewas a Notable Book of the Year Alexandra Fuller returns to… read more

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5. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor

By: Mark Seal

4.15

Format: None pages,

A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. The … read more

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6. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Shattuck's Last House book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Graver's Kantika book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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9. One Woman Show

By: Christine Coulson

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more

Similar categories in Christine Coulson's One Woman Show book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. 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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11. Parasol Against the Axe

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more

Similar categories in Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against the Axe book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. Stockholm

By: Noa Yedlin

3.27

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

An ingeniously plotted dark comedy about aging and friendship following a tight-knit circle of seni… read more

Similar categories in Noa Yedlin's Stockholm book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • contemporary
  • jewish
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

By: Mariah Stovall

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor… read more

Similar categories in Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Secret History of Audrey James

By: Heather Marshall

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more

Similar categories in Heather Marshall's The Secret History of Audrey James book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more

Similar categories in Sasha Vasilyuk's Your Presence Is Mandatory book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • jewish
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16. The Fourth Child

By: Jessica Winter

3.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her debut with a moving novel about motherhood … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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17. City of a Thousand Gates

By: Bee Sacks

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of great humanity, compassion, and astonishing immediacy, this inventive and unique debut c… read more

Similar categories in Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • literary fiction
  • israel
  • jewish
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Lover

By: Rebecca Sacks

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the acclaimed City of a Thousand Gates returns with an intense, page-turning love sto… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • israel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Nothing had ever felt this good. Nothing in my whole life had ever felt as good as being welcomed not just into a family but into a people. How could I go? I couldn’t go. Please, I whispered in my he…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

"Magic is words whose power does not require understanding or even belief - religion’s unregulated cousin. There are those who say that all words are magic, every sentence a spell. I live in Israel, I…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

"I lean against the kitchen sink, listening as the piano tells the one story that is every story: we are small, we are scared, we are brave. We love, we hurt, we fall apart, we change, we let go, we g…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

"What I wanted was for there to be a rocket siren now. Right now. A siren would crack the world open. That’s what I wanted. No more questions about history, justice, or power imbalances. Let it all ev…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

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19. Life Is Everywhere

By: Lucy Ives

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A multi-faceted, matryoshka doll of a novel which asks how far we ever able to understand ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Ives's Life Is Everywhere book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

20. Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other

By: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT #1 TORONTO STAR and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERSophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a d… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other book and Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

  • audiobook
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21. 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 Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates

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

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Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

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Justin Torres

3.77

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4.08

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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3.36

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