13 best-selling contemporary books like Inappropriation by Lexi Freiman

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Inappropriation

By: Lexi Freiman

2.82

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotou…

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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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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

2. We Need New Names

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zim… read more

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3. Fear of Flying

By: Erica Jong

3.97

Format: 68 pages,

Bored with her marriage, a psychoanalyst's wife embarks on a wild, life-changing affair After five … read more

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4. The First Bad Man

By: Miranda July

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more

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5. Skippy Dies

By: Paul Murray

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more

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6. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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7. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Soy una tonta por quererte

By: Camila Sosa Villada

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

En plena decada de los años 90 una mujer se gana la vida como novia de alquiler de hombres gays. En… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"hay que morir en una hoguera para saber cuánto tiempo es la eternidad."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Soy una tonta por quererte

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9. Nothing Special

By: Nicole Flattery

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. People Collide

By: Isle McElroy

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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12. 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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  • audiobook
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13. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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16. American Mermaid

By: Julia Langbein

3.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"

-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"

-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

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17. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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19. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. Inappropriation

By: Lexi Freiman

2.82

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • humor
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • novels
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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21. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

14 must-read fiction books like Inappropriation by Lexi Freiman

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Laura & Emma

Kate Greathead

3.19

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Soy una tonta por quererte

Camila Sosa Villada

3.94

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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