5 best-selling mental health books like Once More, with Feeling by Sophie McCreesh

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Once More, with Feeling

By: Sophie McCreesh

3.01

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Calling to mind smart, deadpan and unrepentant novels such as The New Me and My Year of Rest and Re…

"Nothing bad has ever happened to the well-adjusted, so they assume the world will always be ready to receive them, in all their positivity and grace."

-Sophie McCreesh, Once More, with Feeling

If you liked the mental health plot in Once More, with Feeling by Sophie McCreesh , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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2. The Adult

By: Bronwyn Fischer

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance.  In the wet grass… read more

Similar categories in Bronwyn Fischer's The Adult book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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 Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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4. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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5. You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked.

By: Sheung-King

3.83

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—o… read more

Similar categories in Sheung-King's You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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6. Mona

By: Pola Oloixarac

3.30

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixara… read more

Similar categories in Pola Oloixarac's Mona book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
"There was a niche sort of glamour to it, like being a rare specimen of an endangered species—as though her myste- rious DNA were a tiara encrusted with rare pearls, and the universities each a mas- s…"

-Pola Oloixarac, Mona

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7. Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more

Similar categories in Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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8. Acts of Service

By: Lillian Fishman

3.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more

Similar categories in Lillian Fishman's Acts of Service book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

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9. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Pure Colour book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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10. Bad Fruit

By: Ella King

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For fans of My Dark Vanessa and Celeste Ng, Bad Fruit is an unforgettable portrayal of a toxic moth… read more

Similar categories in Ella King's Bad Fruit book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • canada
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12. Hey, Good Luck Out There

By: Georgia Toews

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toew… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Toews's Hey, Good Luck Out There book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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13. Good Girl

By: Anna Fitzpatrick

3.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Secretary meets Fleabag in Anna Fitzpatrick's hot and hilarious comic-erotic debut. Lucy tries s… read more

Similar categories in Anna Fitzpatrick's Good Girl book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
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14. The New Me

By: Halle Butler

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's The New Me book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
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15. Berlin

By: Bea Setton

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Berlin book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
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16. My Men

By: Victoria Kielland

3.12

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the true story of Norwegian maid Belle Gunness, 19th-century America’s most notorious seri… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Kielland's My Men book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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18. Post-Traumatic

By: Chantal V. Johnson

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more

Similar categories in Chantal V. Johnson's Post-Traumatic book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
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19. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Dey's Daughter book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
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20. A Bit Much

By: Sarah Jackson

3.69

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complex… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Jackson's A Bit Much book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
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21. Once More, with Feeling

By: Sophie McCreesh

3.01

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Calling to mind smart, deadpan and unrepentant novels such as The New Me and My Year of Rest and Re… read more

Similar categories in Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling book and Sophie McCreesh's Once More, with Feeling

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • canada
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
"Nothing bad has ever happened to the well-adjusted, so they assume the world will always be ready to receive them, in all their positivity and grace."

-Sophie McCreesh, Once More, with Feeling

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Bronwyn Fischer

3.72

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Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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I'm a Fan

Sheena Patel

3.32

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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Suzette Mayr

3.46

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