18 best-selling adult books like Mother Doll by Katya Apekina

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Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o…

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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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 Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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

Similar categories in Temim Fruchter's City of Laughter book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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6. 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 Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
"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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8. 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

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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11. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Poor Deer book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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12. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet

13. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more

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14. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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15. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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16. 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

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of Mother Doll by Katya Apekina

17. Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more

Similar categories in Katya Apekina's Mother Doll book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • russia
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • womens
  • adult
  • historical fiction
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18. Broughtupsy

By: Christina Cooke

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican wo… read more

Similar categories in Christina Cooke's Broughtupsy book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. 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 Katya Apekina's Mother Doll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

20 Best fiction books like Mother Doll by Katya Apekina

Transform Your Habits

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Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

3.26

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Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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4.06

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Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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3.97

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