20 best-selling fiction books like The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell

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The Future Future

By: Adam Thirlwell

2.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon…

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1. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more

Similar categories in Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • novels
  • france
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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3. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • adult
  • fiction
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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4. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's August Blue book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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5. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. 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

Similar categories in Julius Taranto's How I Won a Nobel Prize book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • adult
  • fiction
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7. Disobedient

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I'll show you what a woman can do . . . Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumpt… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Fremantle's Disobedient book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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8. 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

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • feminism
  • novels
  • adult
  • 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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9. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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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

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • novels
  • fiction
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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12. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Newman's Julia book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • science fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

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13. 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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14. The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more

Similar categories in A.K. Blakemore's The Glutton book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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15. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • 18th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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16. Saltblood

By: Francesca De Tores

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mot… read more

Similar categories in Francesca De Tores's Saltblood book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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18. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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19. The Coiled Serpent

By: Camilla Grudova

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more

Similar categories in Camilla Grudova's The Coiled Serpent book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • fiction
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20. The Future Future

By: Adam Thirlwell

2.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon… read more

Similar categories in Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • historical
  • feminism
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • 18th century
  • novels
  • adult
  • fantasy
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21. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction

7 must-read novels books like The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell

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The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

Mathias Énard

3.59

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Deborah Levy

3.68

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Rachel Cusk

3.70

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Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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The Maniac

Benjamín Labatut

4.34

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Michael Cunningham

3.57

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