21 best-selling fiction books like A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits

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A Weekend in New York

By: Benjamin Markovits

3.23

Format: None pages, ebook

'What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.''That's what …

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Cover of Così Fan Tutti (Aurelio Zen, #5) by Michael Dibdin

1. Così Fan Tutti (Aurelio Zen, #5)

By: Michael Dibdin

3.64

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Michael Dibdin's overburdened Italian police inspector has been transferred to Naples, where the ru… read more

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  • fiction
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2. The Expats

By: Chris Pavone

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Passion

By: Jeanette Winterson

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Jazz

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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5. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

6. Transit

By: Rachel Cusk

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more

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7. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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8. Fugitive Pieces

By: Anne Michaels

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the … read more

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9. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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10. The First Bad Man

By: Miranda July

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more

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11. Sweet Tooth

By: Ian McEwan

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Ian McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, lov… read more

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12. The Offing

By: Benjamin Myers

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

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13. Murder on Lake Garda

By: Tom Hindle

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more

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  • fiction
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14. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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15. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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16. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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17. Four Stars: A Life, Reviewed

By: Joel Golby

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier than Joe… read more

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18. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

By: Jessie Tu

3.19

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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  • fiction
"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

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20. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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21. Kudos

By: Rachel Cusk

3.89

Format: 236 pages, ebook

En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

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22. The Exhibitionist

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
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23. The Mars Room

By: Rachel Kushner

3.44

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Corr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"We loved life more than the future."

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

"Where people are gone the night falls upward, black and unmanned."

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

"I was assigned a public defender. We were all hopeful things would go differently. They did not go differently. They went this way."

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

"You would not have gone. I understand that. You would not have gone up to his room. You would not have asked him for help. You would not have been wandering lost at midnight at age eleven. You would …"

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

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24. Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

By: Jonathan Coe

3.93

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Com’è il morale? In generale"

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

"Lei insegna all’università, vero? E quindi conosce William Blake."

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

"C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri"

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

"Frustrato, Doug tentò un’altra strada. “Ascolta, supponiamo che la maggioranza voti per la Brexit e noi..."

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

Cover of Property: Stories Between Two Novellas by Lionel Shriver

25. Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

By: Lionel Shriver

3.85

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive."

-Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

"The romances between strangers are somewhere between inaccessible and incomprehensible to other people..."

-Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

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26. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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27. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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28. Everything's Fine

By: Cecilia Rabess

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Everything's Fine is an utterly original and deeply moving take on an age-old question from a dazzl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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29. A Month in Siena

By: Hisham Matar

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the firs… read more

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30. A Weekend in New York

By: Benjamin Markovits

3.23

Format: None pages, ebook

'What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.''That's what … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • novels
Cover of Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

31. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

By: Ina Garten

4.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling co… read more

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4.51

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