6 must-read novels books like Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

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Off the Books

By: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet…

"Going karura mean ride service off the books."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"Going karura mean ride service off the books."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"On the Fourth, he’d been cowardly. And this time he hadn’t missed."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"On the Fourth, he’d been cowardly. And this time he hadn’t missed."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

If you liked the novels plot in Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Horse by Willy Vlautin

1. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard

2. The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco

By: Michelle Chouinard

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Michelle Chouinard’s clever mystery The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco, the granddaughter … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Chouinard's The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Villarreal-Moura's Like Happiness book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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4. Four Squares

By: Bobby Finger

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more

Similar categories in Bobby Finger's Four Squares book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. A Great Marriage

By: Frances Mayes

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their … read more

Similar categories in Frances Mayes's A Great Marriage book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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7. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

Similar categories in John Vercher's Devil Is Fine book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

8. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

9. Off the Books

By: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet… read more

Similar categories in Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • road trip
  • novels
  • adult
  • mystery
"Going karura mean ride service off the books."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"On the Fourth, he’d been cowardly. And this time he hadn’t missed."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"Was the decline of journalistic ethics an inevitable result of capitalism?"

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"She would hate it, but she’s saving her hate for the Three I’s. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

Cover of The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna  Johnston

10. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl by Bart Yates

11. The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

By: Bart Yates

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and … read more

Similar categories in Bart Yates's The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult
  • fiction
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12. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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13. Peggy

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Godfrey's Peggy book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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14. The World After Alice

By: Lauren Aliza Green

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Aliza Green's The World After Alice book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

Similar categories in Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Book of George by Kate Greathead

17. The Book of George

By: Kate Greathead

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. f… read more

Similar categories in Kate Greathead's The Book of George book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • fiction
Cover of How to Leave the House by Nathan  Newman

18. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of A Season of Perfect Happiness by Maribeth Fischer

19. A Season of Perfect Happiness

By: Maribeth Fischer

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Season of Perfect Happiness fundamentally questions what makes a “good” mother, with a propulsive… read more

Similar categories in Maribeth Fischer's A Season of Perfect Happiness book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

20. Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more

Similar categories in Cebo Campbell's Sky Full of Elephants book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • adult
  • fiction
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21. The Snap

By: Elizabeth Staple

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Poppy Benjamin, Media Relations Director of Syracuse's storied NFL team, the Bobcats, fought tooth … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Staple's The Snap book and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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