10 Top australia books like Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

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Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

By: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

3.77

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

"From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys." In Nosta…

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1. Problems

By: Jade Sharma

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Dark, raw, and very funny, Problems introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time t… read more

Similar categories in Jade Sharma's Problems book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mental health
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2. Candy

By: Luke Davies

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her so… read more

Similar categories in Luke Davies's Candy book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • contemporary
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mental health
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3. Jillian

By: Halle Butler

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Megan, recently out of college and working a meaningless job as a gastroenterologist's secretary, o… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Jillian book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Au's Cold Enough for Snow book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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5. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Exteriors book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • short stories
  • contemporary
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7. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's No Hard Feelings book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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8. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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9. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Perkins's Lioness book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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11. Another Day in the Colony

By: Chelsea Watego

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Watego's Another Day in the Colony book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • australia
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12. Unquiet

By: Linn Ullmann

3.95

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of the intricacies of family life, Unquiet is a stunning,… read more

Similar categories in Linn Ullmann's Unquiet book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Om man vill vara högtidlig, kan man säga att jag hade hittat hem, har han sagt, och om man vill vara lustig, kan man tala om kärlek vid första ögonkastet."

-Linn Ullmann, Unquiet

"In order to write about real people - parents, children, lovers, friends, enemies, brothers, uncles, or the occasional passerby - it is necessary to make them fictional. I believe this is the only wa…"

-Linn Ullmann, Unquiet

"My father had the rare ability to make others feel as though they were the one and only. That they were seen, heard, chosen. He would take you by the hand and say, Come with me, and for a brief or a …"

-Linn Ullmann, Unquiet

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13. An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

By: Paul Dalla Rosa

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

'Voyeuristically addictive, funny, and deceptively simple' Halle Butler, author of The New Me Wh… read more

Similar categories in Paul Dalla Rosa's An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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14. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

Similar categories in Nadine J. Cohen's Everyone and Everything book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • adult
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15. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

Similar categories in Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • mental health
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16. Rest and Be Thankful

By: Emma Glass

3.52

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more

Similar categories in Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

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17. Body Friend

By: Katherine Brabon

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Brabon's Body Friend book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • australia
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Modern Times

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.19

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A woman orders a sex doll for her husband’s birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Modern Times book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
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19. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

Similar categories in Isobel Beech's Sunbathing book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • fiction
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20. Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

By: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

3.77

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

"From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys." In Nosta… read more

Similar categories in Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • womens
  • adult
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21. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

Similar categories in Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs book and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

  • fiction
  • contemporary

18 Best fiction books like Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

Transform Your Habits

Problems

Jade Sharma

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Candy

Luke Davies

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Jillian

Halle Butler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Cold Enough for Snow

Jessica Au

3.73

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18 Top fiction books like An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa

Transform Your Habits

Cold Enough for Snow

Jessica Au

3.73

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Limberlost

Robbie Arnott

4.25

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Women & Children

Tony Birch

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Late Americans

Brandon Taylor

3.38

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