7 Top novels books like White Elephant by Julie Langsdorf

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White Elephant

By: Julie Langsdorf

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observant debut novel per…

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1. Laura & Emma

By: Kate Greathead

3.19

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Buck up. Fake it till you feel it. The show must go on. This was the way they did things - These people in the world she'd grown up in."

-Kate Greathead, Laura & Emma

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2. Beatrice and Virgil

By: Yann Martel

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil. It is also the story of an … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Sea Change

By: Karen White

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

For Ava Whalen, a new marriage and a move to St. Simons Island means a new beginning. But what she … read more

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4. Inheriting Edith: A Novel

By: Zoe Fishman

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

A poignant breakout novel, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Elin Hilderbrand, about a single mo… read more

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5. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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7. The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp

By: Leonie Swann

3.51

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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11. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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12. Witness: Stories

By: Jamel Brinkley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."

-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories

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13. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Escape Velocity

By: Victor Manibo

3.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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16. The Hitchcock Hotel

By: Stephanie Wrobel

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed ho… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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17. White Elephant

By: Julie Langsdorf

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observant debut novel per… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • relationships
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
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19. Loka (The Alloy Era, #2)

By: S.B. Divya

4.15

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding a place to belong becomes a girl’s ambitious quest in a thrilling epic about space, humanit… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton

20. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook

16 must-read fiction books like White Elephant by Julie Langsdorf

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Laura & Emma

Kate Greathead

3.19

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Beatrice and Virgil

Yann Martel

0.00

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The Main Character

Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

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Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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