17 best-selling fiction books like Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil

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Wrong Way

By: Joanne McNeil

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For years, Teresa has passed from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, strugg…

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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2. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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3. 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
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4. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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5. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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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
  • novels
"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. How I Won a Nobel Prize

By: Julius Taranto

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, wickedly funny debut novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgrace… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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8. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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9. Vengeance Is Mine

By: Marie NDiaye

2.86

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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10. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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11. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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12. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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13. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • technology
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14. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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15. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
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16. The Garden

By: Clare Beams

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

By: Brian Merchant

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more

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  • technology
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

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18. Negative Space

By: Gillian Linden

3.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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20. Wrong Way

By: Joanne McNeil

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For years, Teresa has passed from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, strugg… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • technology
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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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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

8 must-read novels books like Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil

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Help Wanted

Adelle Waldman

3.62

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Biography of X

Catherine Lacey

3.85

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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Orbital

Samantha Harvey

3.73

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

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