11 must-read novels books like My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig

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My Nemesis

By: Charmaine Craig

3.38

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Pri…

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1. My Husband

By: Maud Ventura

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"

-Maud Ventura, My Husband

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2. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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4. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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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

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  • 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. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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7. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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8. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Cursed Bread

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.28

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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10. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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11. The Nursery

By: Szilvia Molnar

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I want you as much as I fear you"

-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

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12. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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13. Emergency

By: Kathleen Alcott

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A woman finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of an art … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
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14. Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories

By: Colombe Schneck

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and best-selling French author, a woman personal journey through abortion, s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. My Nemesis

By: Charmaine Craig

3.38

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Pri… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • the united states of america
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Central Places

By: Delia Cai

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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19. Hundred Waters, The

By: Lauren Acampora

3.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her afflue… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook

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3.68

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Exhibit

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3.24

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Transform Your Habits

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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