10 Best novels books like Ordinary Hazards by Anna Bruno

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Ordinary Hazards

By: Anna Bruno

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Seen through keen eyes and full of deep feeling, Ordinary Hazards delves into the psyche of a woma…

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1. Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1)

By: C.J. Skuse

3.90

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead…I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Skuse's Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1) book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. The Girl in the Red Coat

By: Kate Hamer

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Librarian note: An alternative cover for this edition can be found  She is the missing girl. But s… read more

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3. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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4. Blue Ticket

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Blue Ticket book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wondered if motherhood held such appeal for me because it was a masochism you couldn't ever let go of."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket

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5. The Boy Lost in the Maze

By: Joseph Coelho

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more

Similar categories in Joseph Coelho's The Boy Lost in the Maze book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • audiobook
  • family
  • contemporary
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6. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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7. Stay Up with Hugo Best

By: Erin Somers

2.90

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

An incredibly timely, terrifically witty and moving debut about a young writers’ assistant on a lat… read more

Similar categories in Erin Somers's Stay Up with Hugo Best book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Every Wish Way

By: Shannon Bright

3.70

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Be careful what you wish for... Iza 's love life is a disaster. Tired of dating all the wrong me… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Bright's Every Wish Way book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Swallows

By: Lisa Lutz

3.66

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences. What … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Lutz's The Swallows book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Actress

By: Anne Enright

3.44

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's Actress book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. To Be a Man: Stories

By: Nicole Krauss

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Krauss's To Be a Man: Stories book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"One day I saw it: how she looked back at the man that j the business suit who stood across a subway car from her, burning a hole through her with his eyes. Her stare was a challenge."

-Nicole Krauss, To Be a Man: Stories

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13. Popisho

By: Leone Ross

3.82

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more

Similar categories in Leone Ross's Popisho book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

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14. The Dearly Beloved

By: Cara Wall

4.07

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are … read more

Similar categories in Cara Wall's The Dearly Beloved book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

"She would never be free again. But she would also never be alone."

-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

"This minister, a small, balding, quick-spoken man, said often that faith, at its simplest, was the acceptance of the possibility that things one had never seen could be real."

-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

"Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes. Those were worldly things, not sacred. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a…"

-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

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15. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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16. Hot Stew

By: Fiona Mozley

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

London has changed a lot over the years. The Soho that Precious and Tabitha live and work in is bar… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Mozley's Hot Stew book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Dark Horses

By: Susan Mihalic

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl’s fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her a… read more

Similar categories in Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Thin Girls

By: Diana Clarke

3.87

Format: None pages, None

A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and que… read more

Similar categories in Diana Clarke's Thin Girls book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."

-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

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19. 28 Questions

By: Indyana Schneider

3.83

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A queer When Harry Met Sally for the Sally Rooney generation.  Reader, imagine yielding to someone… read more

Similar categories in Indyana Schneider's 28 Questions book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Small Joys of Real Life

By: Allee Richards

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her be… read more

Similar categories in Allee Richards's Small Joys of Real Life book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Careering by Daisy Buchanan

21. Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. Breathe In, Cash Out

By: Madeleine Henry

3.33

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

“The Devil Wears Prada meets Wall Street” (TheSkimm) in this sizzling debut about a banking analyst… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Henry's Breathe In, Cash Out book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Take Me Apart

By: Sara Sligar

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young archivist's obsession with her subject's mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile … read more

Similar categories in Sara Sligar's Take Me Apart book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I think I believed him just because he said I was different. Men do that. They separate us from the pack. And we are grateful, because the pack is a dangerous place to be."

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

"Men are always better at being crazy. Better at being forgiven. The blood on their hands can be real, not imagined. They can be bought and sold and still no one thinks they are owned."

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

"How do you talk to other people, afterward? After the worst, I mean. After your brain swells you up and spits you out, a saliva lump of a human being. How do you communicate with people who spent tha…"

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

"When Kate had been waiting out her winter, everyone told her to get over it, work through it, talk it out. As if prepositions could protect her. As if others knew whatever lay beyond was better. In r…"

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

Cover of Northernmost (Eide Family, #3) by Peter Geye

24. Northernmost (Eide Family, #3)

By: Peter Geye

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Wintering: a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries… read more

Similar categories in Peter Geye's Northernmost (Eide Family, #3) book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. The Contest

By: Karen Hamilton

3.15

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hunting Party meets Succession, THE CONTEST is a jaw-dropping, read-in-one-sitting thriller fro… read more

Similar categories in Karen Hamilton's The Contest book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Ordinary Hazards

By: Anna Bruno

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Seen through keen eyes and full of deep feeling, Ordinary Hazards delves into the psyche of a woma… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • relationships
  • tragedy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood

27. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Whoever You Are, Honey book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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28. The Majesties

By: Tiffany Tsao

3.29

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting tale about the secrets and betrayals that can accompany exorbitant wealth, two sis… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Tsao's The Majesties book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff

29. Come West and See: Stories

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an … read more

Similar categories in Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. A Short Affair

By: Simon Oldfield

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

‘A dazzling anthology uniting the written word with the visual’ STEPHEN FRY A Short Affair is… read more

Similar categories in Simon Oldfield's A Short Affair book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • fiction
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31. Her Here

By: Amanda Dennis

3.28

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

"Dennis is in possession of hypnotic narrative gifts and a ferocious intellect. With Her Here, she … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Dennis's Her Here book and Anna Bruno's Ordinary Hazards

  • fiction

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