19 Top fiction books like In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories by Courtney Sender

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In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories

By: Courtney Sender

4.35

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

"A deep and howling portrait of longing and loneliness." — The Boston Globe "A stunner from the ve…

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Cover of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss

1. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

By: Neil Strauss

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in… read more

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2. Long Division

By: Kiese Laymon

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Kiese Laymon's debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religio… read more

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3. The Lacuna

By: Barbara Kingsolver

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City… read more

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4. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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5. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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6. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

7. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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8. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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9. 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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  • fiction
"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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10. Thirst for Salt

By: Madelaine Lucas

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

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11. Take What You Need

By: Idra Novey

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

3.95

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

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13. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

Cover of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

14. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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15. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • adult
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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16. The Divorcées

By: Rowan Beaird

3.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

17. Diana: My Graphic Obsession

By: Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A unique perspective on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the beloved icon of many people in th… read more

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18. How to Love Your Daughter

By: Hila Blum

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

19. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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20. Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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21. The Golem of Brooklyn

By: Adam Mansbach

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Elsewhere

By: Alexis Schaitkin

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the ima… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one's own life always feels."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women he…"

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

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23. Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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24. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

Cover of Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine

25. Just Us: An American Conversation

By: Claudia Rankine

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday whit… read more

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"To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid."

-Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation

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26. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury

27. Some Strange Music Draws Me In

By: Griffin Hansbury

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia,… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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28. Lech

By: Sara Lippmann

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

A mother recovering from an abortion in a Borscht Belt rental. An eccentric aging landlord, the bel… read more

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  • fiction
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29. In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories

By: Courtney Sender

4.35

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

"A deep and howling portrait of longing and loneliness." — The Boston Globe "A stunner from the ve… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Sender's In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories book and Courtney Sender's In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
Cover of A Brutal Design by Zachary C. Solomon

30. A Brutal Design

By: Zachary C. Solomon

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“There were moments in Solomon’s novel that truly frightened me, and yet, like its narrator, Samuel… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Consolation

By: Deborah Shapiro

4.58

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Consolation is a slim novel that focuses on what happens when a celebrated photojournalist is kille… read more

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“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

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Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Temim Fruchter

3.78

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3.84

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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