10 Best contemporary books like In transit by Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo

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In transit

By: Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo

3.58

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

Galadriel, G, joka on aina matkalla, aina liikkeellä, G, joka ajattelee aina matkus­tamista, eteenp…

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1. Annie John

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more

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"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

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2. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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3. Missä kuljimme kerran

By: Kjell Westö , Katriina Savolainen

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Komea historiallinen romaani henkii kertomisen iloa ja voimaa - kuvaus modernin ihmisen synnysta, e… read more

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4. Are You My Mother?

By: Alison Bechdel

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more

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5. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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6. Arv og miljø

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

At ingen av dere pa noe tidspunkt har spurt meg om min historie, har jeg opplevd og opplever jeg so… read more

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7. Kunskapens frukt

By: Liv Strömquist

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Liv Stromquists nya seriealbum Kunskapens frukt handlar om det som brukar kallas for det kvinnliga … read more

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8. The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity

By: Catherine Malabou

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily … read more

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9. Fates and Furies

By: Lauren Groff

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, th… read more

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10. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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11. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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12. Hävitys : tapauskertomus

By: Iida Rauma

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Öisellä juoksulenkillä A näkee joutomaan laidalla tutun hahmon ja tajuaa, ettei mikään lopu, mikään… read more

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"[E]ikä kukaan myöskään haluu myöntää että ahdistus ja masennus on niinku kolera, molemmista päästään ku ihmiset ei joudu elään keskel paskaa."

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

" Mä oon kuuden lapsen yksinhuoltaja , Anna-Maija toisti, ikään kuin he olisivat jotenkin osavastuussa Anna-Maijan panoksesta liikakansoitukseen, ja A:n vatsaa väänsi."

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

"Ihan tosissaan, A sanoi, ne eivät kyenneet pitämään heille asiallista seksivalistusta mutta kertoivat kyllä, millä menetelmällä Anna-Maijan ex-mies oli surmannut itsensä, sellaista se oli 1990-luvull…"

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

"Mä oon lukenu jotai satatuhat selfhelp-opasta ja jokases niist sanotaan et jos ihminen haluu päästä elämäs eteenpäin pitää kuunnella sydämen ääntä, pitää tehä niinku se sydän halajaa mut missään ei k…"

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

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13. Suomaa

By: Maria Turtschaninoff

4.35

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Ihmisen ja metsän juuret yhtä syvällä. Suomaa on lumoava episodiromaani metsän voimasta ja suoma… read more

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14. Haralds mamma

By: Johanna Frid

3.38

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Svärdotter och svärmor möts på en flygplats. Under ett dygn inväntar de ett försenat plan och allte… read more

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15. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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  • contemporary
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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16. Bolla

By: Pajtim Statovci

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Kansainvälisen tähtikirjailijan lumoava romaani sokeasta rakkaudesta, sodasta, kodittomuudesta ja k… read more

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"Faced with death a person is as close to the radiance of life as can be. A lack of options is in fact a multitude of possibilities."

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

"War is born of war and there is no war that will end a war, and the disgust the boy caused was war’s finger, a fist shoved down the throat."

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

"One raised with fear never learns to live without it. When you take away its cause, fear manifests, becoming its own consequences – a lingering suspicion, hallucinations and waking dreams."

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

"Isn’t it strange how – again and again, as if to humiliate themselves – people fool themselves into thinking they can get time back somehow? How time only becomes important once it has passed?"

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

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17. SULT

By: Tine Høeg

4.33

Format: 430 pages, ebook

Tine Høegs "SULT" er en levende roman om begæret efter at skabe et liv. Efter et år med forsøg p… read more

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18. Babetta

By: Nina Wähä

3.23

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

En het sommar. En plötslig mistral. Vad är egentligen vänskap? Och vad är egentligen sant? Katja… read more

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19. Huolenpitoja

By: Eeva Åkerblad

3.42

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Valmistaudun rentoutumaan aivan lähiaikoina. Valmistaudun hellittämään aivan näinä päivinä. Olen su… read more

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"Lepääminen on radikaali teko, hellittäminen hellyyttä. Koskaan ei riitä aikaa sille, että eläisi pidempään kuin itse."

-Eeva Åkerblad, Huolenpitoja

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20. Muistin varassa: Oikeusprosessi ja totuus

By: Julia Korkman

4.15

Format: 343 pages, Audiobook

Todistajan muistikuvat voivat olla oikeusprosessin keskeisin todiste. Muisti on kuitenkin luonteelt… read more

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21. Frankissstein: A Love Story

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.54

Format: 344 pages, ebook

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more

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"Yet I wish I had a cat."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

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22. The Red Book of Farewells (The Autobiographical Trilogy, #3)

By: Pirkko Saisio

3.95

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

One morning in 2002, on an island off the coast of Finland, the narrator Pirkko Saisio tells her ed… read more

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23. Ædnan

By: Linnea Axelsson

4.23

Format: 762 pages, Hardcover

Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more

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24. Tulit luokseni kutsumatta

By: Fiona ’Elōne

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

Millaista on elää nuorena ruskeana äitinä 2020-luvun Suomessa, kysyy ravisteleva esikoisromaani, jo… read more

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25. Vem dödade bambi?

By: Monika Fagerholm

3.16

Format: 219 pages, Hardcover

I centrum av Monika Fagerholms nya roman finns två unga kvinnor i tjugosjuårsåldern, väninnorna Sag… read more

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26. Heiman

By: Ann-Luise Bertell

3.81

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

"Elof såg sig om, såg det mörka stora huset, de svarta fönstren, det liksom grät. Han såg sin far i… read more

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27. Wonderful Women by the Sea

By: Monika Fagerholm

3.35

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Monika Fagerholm's Wonderful Women by the Sea conjures the magical aura of the early sixties and th… read more

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28. In transit

By: Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo

3.58

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

Galadriel, G, joka on aina matkalla, aina liikkeellä, G, joka ajattelee aina matkus­tamista, eteenp… read more

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  • contemporary
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29. Republikens President – Tasavallan Presidentti

By: Rosanna Fellman

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Republikens president – Tasavallan presidentti handlar om den fiktiva Rouva Presidentti. Till henne… read more

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30. Vaarallista kokea: Päiväkirja vuosilta 1953–1975

By: Aila Meriluoto

4.19

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

"Vaarallista kokea. Sitten sitä kulkee ja muistaa", sanoo Sandemose, yksi Aila Meriluodon tärkeimmi… read more

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31. Vedenpeitto

By: Auli Särkiö

3.22

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

Vedenpeitto on tila, jossa minuuden rajat liukenevat. Lukija kutsutaan kellumaan tietoisen logiikan… read more

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7 Best nonfiction books like The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Transform Your Habits

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing

4.01

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