5 Best short stories books like Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane by Parker Young

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Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane

By: Parker Young

4.07

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Cheap Therapist Says You’re Insane is a debut collection of stories that announces a startling new …

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1. Two Serious Ladies

By: Jane Bowles

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more

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  • fiction
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2. The End We Start From

By: Megan Hunter

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a wom… read more

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  • fiction

3. Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more

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4. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • short stories
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5. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

By: Suzanne Scanlon

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.   When Su… read more

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"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

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6. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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8. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

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  • fiction
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9. 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

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10. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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11. 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

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  • fiction
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12. 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

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  • fiction
"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

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13. 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

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  • fiction
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14. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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15. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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16. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane

By: Parker Young

4.07

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Cheap Therapist Says You’re Insane is a debut collection of stories that announces a startling new … read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • fiction
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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19. Death Egg

By: Nathaniel Duggan

4.58

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Death Egg is a collection of poems about unemployment, love, jellyfish, despair, and apocalypses. E… read more

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20. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Pure Cosmos Club

By: Matthew Binder

4.18

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art an… read more

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  • fiction

15 Best fiction books like Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane by Parker Young

Transform Your Habits

Two Serious Ladies

Jane Bowles

3.67

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The End We Start From

Megan Hunter

4.12

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Earth Angel

Madeline Cash

4.05

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Parade

Rachel Cusk

3.70

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20 must-read fiction books like Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Friends

Hisham Matar

4.34

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The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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