10 Best fiction books like The Invention of Love by Sara Schaff

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The Invention of Love

By: Sara Schaff

4.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What is love, if not an invention -- not just a human instinct but an artful construction? The wome…

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Cover of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song by Kara Vernor

1. Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song

By: Kara Vernor

4.41

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The characters in this collection of 21 short fictions hum with restlessness. They pine for lost lo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover

By: Mila Jaroniec

4.16

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Through flashbacks, photographs, confessions and letters, we discover our narrator—as queer sex sto… read more

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  • fiction
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3. I Once Met You But You Were Dead

By: S.J. Sindu

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2016 TURNBUCKLE CHAPBOOK CONTEST I Once Met You But You Were Dead is a hybrid chapboo… read more

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4. Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home

By: None

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home delivers on its title with wonderfully knowing stories at once gene… read more

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5. The State That Springfield Is in

By: None

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Inspired by America's most prominent hallmark of modern pop culture, The Simpsons, poet Tom C. Hunl… read more

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6. felt in the jaw

By: Kristen Arnett

4.25

Format: 194 pages,

In her debut story collection, Kristen Arnett, with dark humor, explores the lives of queer women a… read more

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7. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

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  • fiction
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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8. The Church of Wrestling

By: Emily Thomas Mani

4.27

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Jenny Arsenault is an undefeated wrestler, thanks in large part to the guiding prin… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Space Poet

By: Samantha Edmonds

4.74

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

In this hybrid work of prose and poetry, Samantha Edmonds tells the story of an artist—the first in… read more

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10. Tracing the Desire Line

By: Melissa Matthewson

4.33

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Tracing the Desire Line follows a writer's journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The st… read more

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11. Flee

By: Calvin Walds

4.80

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Split/Lip Press Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Flee is on the move. Flee is… read more

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12. Double Negative

By: Claudia Putnam

4.80

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Double Negative examines the grammatical l… read more

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13. The Part That Burns

By: Jeannine Ouellette

4.26

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

“You can tear a thing apart and tape it back together,” writes Jeannine Ouellette, “and it will sti… read more

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14. The Incredible Shrinking Woman

By: Athena Dixon

4.50

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon's debut essay collection, The Incredibl… read more

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15. Hungry People

By: Tasha Coryell

4.57

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

"In Hungry People, Tasha Coryell gives us food for hungry hearts. The women are anxious and complic… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. The Quiet Part Loud

By: Tyler Barton

4.61

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Tyler Barton's flash fiction chapbook, The Quiet Part Loud, is a collection of eleven very short st… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. by Jennifer Wortman

17. This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.

By: Jennifer Wortman

4.69

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. contains thirteen stories, full-length and flash, that expl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. The Invention of Love

By: Sara Schaff

4.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What is love, if not an invention -- not just a human instinct but an artful construction? The wome… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. An Inventory of Abandoned Things

By: Kelly Ann Jacobson

4.47

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Fiction Chapbook Contest ​In Kelly Ann Jacobson's An Inventory of Abandoned T… read more

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20. My Share of the Body

By: Devon Capizzi

4.82

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

My Share of the Body, Devon Capizzi's debut story collection, explores loss and the cost of coming … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. 48 Blitz

By: Brett Biebel

4.80

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Set along the 455 Nebraska miles of Interstate 80, the 48 stories in Brett Biebel’s debut collectio… read more

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  • short stories
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22. Maybe This Is What I Deserve

By: Tucker Leighty-Phillips

4.91

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Fiction Chapbook Contest, selected by Isle McElroy ​Tucker Leighty-Phillips b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. Exit the Body: Essays

By: Heather Bartel

5.00

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel makes an offering-as-essay-collection, if a collection of essays c… read more

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24. Halfway from Home

By: Sarah Fawn Montgomery

4.81

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

When she left a chaotic home at eighteen, Sarah Fawn Montgomery chased restlessness, claiming place… read more

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