15 Top fiction books like Search History by Eugene Lim

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Search History

By: Eugene Lim

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim dec…

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1. Inventory: Poems

By: Dionne Brand

3.82

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked… read more

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2. Chinatown

By: Thuận

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Day la lan thu hai Chinatown duoc xuat ban tai Viet Nam. Cuon tieu thuyet vua mang nang nuoi tiec q… read more

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3. 10:04

By: Ben Lerner

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more

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4. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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5. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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6. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Kick the Latch

By: Kathryn Scanlan

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Activities of Daily Living

By: Lisa Hsiao Chen

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do we take stock of a life—by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preocc… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Grief is like watching television."

-Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

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9. Loved and Missed

By: Susie Boyt

4.30

Format: None pages, None

Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"

-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

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10. I Wished

By: Dennis Cooper

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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11. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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12. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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13. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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14. Punto de cruz

By: Jazmina Barrera

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

«Uno de los recuerdos más luminosos de mi infancia es aquel en el que mi madre, con su voz cálida y… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Hangman

By: Maya Binyam

3.59

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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17. The Guest Lecture

By: Martin Riker

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. El sueño de toda célula

By: Maricela Guerrero

4.21

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

En El sueño de toda célula, Maricela Guerrero se interna en el territorio íntimo pero a la vez cole… read more

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19. Search History

By: Eugene Lim

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim dec… read more

Similar categories in Eugene Lim's Search History book and Eugene Lim's Search History

  • internet
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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20. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Eugene Lim's Search History

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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21. The Maybe-Bird

By: Jennifer Elise Foerster

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The Maybe-Bird marks Jennifer Elise Foerster as a visionary voice in contemporary poetry. Through a… read more

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14 Top contemporary books like Search History by Eugene Lim

Transform Your Habits

Y/N

Esther Yi

2.95

Transform Your Habits

Earth Angel

Madeline Cash

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Kick the Latch

Kathryn Scanlan

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Activities of Daily Living

Lisa Hsiao Chen

3.85

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20 must-read fiction books like Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Friends

Hisham Matar

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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