15 Best contemporary books like The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

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The Vietri Project

By: Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A search for a mysterious customer in Rome leads a young bookseller to confront the complicated his…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To

By: Sian Beilock

3.50

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Why do the smartest students often do poorly on standardized tests? Why did you tank that interview… read more

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2. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's The Morningside book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • audiobook
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4. Monkey Boy

By: Francisco Goldman

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more

Similar categories in Francisco Goldman's Monkey Boy book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

5. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Cover of Property: Stories Between Two Novellas by Lionel Shriver

6. Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

By: Lionel Shriver

3.85

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property … read more

Similar categories in Lionel Shriver's Property: Stories Between Two Novellas book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive."

-Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

"The romances between strangers are somewhere between inaccessible and incomprehensible to other people..."

-Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

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7. The Secrets of Love Story Bridge

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Rise and Shine Benedict Stone , now an original movie on Hallmark. “Patrick ble… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • audiobook
"There's no such thing as perfection, just two people trying to make the most of their time together."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Secrets of Love Story Bridge

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8. 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 Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • 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 Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

9. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • mystery
  • fiction
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10. All This & More

By: Peng Shepherd

3.47

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more

Similar categories in Peng Shepherd's All This & More book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

12. The Vietri Project

By: Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A search for a mysterious customer in Rome leads a young bookseller to confront the complicated his… read more

Similar categories in Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • travel
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

Cover of Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) by Naomi Kritzer

14. Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1)

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, ebook

How much does the internet know about YOU? Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • mystery
  • fiction
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15. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

Similar categories in Camille Bordas's The Material book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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17. The Pessimists

By: Bethany Ball

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Ball's The Pessimists book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith

18. The Everlasting

By: Katy Simpson Smith

3.34

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four diff… read more

Similar categories in Katy Simpson Smith's The Everlasting book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • travel
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Come with Me

By: Helen Schulman

2.92

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, A Ne… read more

Similar categories in Helen Schulman's Come with Me book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of How to Leave the House by Nathan  Newman

21. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook

20 Best fiction books like The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

Transform Your Habits

Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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The Morningside

Téa Obreht

3.61

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Monkey Boy

Francisco Goldman

3.51

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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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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