Can You Tolerate This?
By: Ashleigh Young
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling—and already prizewinning—collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappoin…
Want to Read $ 12.99If you liked the memoir plot in Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young , here is a list of 10 books like this:
1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
By: Carrie Brownstein
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I've always felt unclaimed."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
2. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- 21st century
- literary fiction
- short stories
- contemporary
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
3. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- contemporary
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
4. Family Happiness
By: Laurie Colwin
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly is a happy wife and mother from a remarkable strong and attractive family -- until one day sh… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Laurie Colwin's Family Happiness book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- literary fiction
- short stories
- contemporary
5. Priestdaddy: A Memoir
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Patricia Lockwood's Priestdaddy: A Memoir book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Empathy Exams: Essays
By: Leslie Jamison
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams: Essays book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
7. The Boys of My Youth
By: Jo Ann Beard
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the mom… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
8. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Miranda July's The First Bad Man book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
9. Potiki
By: Patricia Grace
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Patricia Grace's Potiki book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
10. Promising Young Women
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Promising Young Women book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
11. Take Two
By: Danielle Hawkins
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant, funny new novel from the bestselling, beloved Danielle Hawkins'Take Two is that rare a… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Danielle Hawkins's Take Two book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- contemporary
- audiobook
12. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in George Saunders's A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
13. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
14. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Coco Solid's How to Loiter in a Turf War book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
15. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
16. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's The Axeman's Carnival book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- literary fiction
- contemporary
17. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Nina Mingya Powles's Small Bodies of Water book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Becky Manawatu's Auē book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- literary fiction
- contemporary
"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
19. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lynne Tillman's Weird Fucks book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- literary fiction
- short stories
- contemporary
20. The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Anne Boyer's The Undying book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"-Anne Boyer, The Undying
21. The Mirror Book
By: Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writ… read more
Want to Read $ 10.82Similar categories in Charlotte Grimshaw's The Mirror Book book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
22. Better the Blood
By: Michael Bennett
4.01
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Michael Bennett's Better the Blood book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- audiobook
- contemporary
23. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- literary fiction
- contemporary
24. How to Read Now
By: Elaine Castillo
4.03
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Elaine Castillo's How to Read Now book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
25. Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
By: Satya Doyle Byock
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife--the years between adoles… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Satya Doyle Byock's Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. White on White
By: Aysegül Savas
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. A student mov… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's White on White book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- contemporary
"It wasn't often, she went on, that we could present ourselves to others, like a self-portrait. More often, we made portraits of the people around us, guessing at their features from occasional glimps…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescen…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"The cousin was both real and fictional to her - an embodiment of all that Agnes wanted to be, fashioned from the particular details of her cousins tangible self. "We form ourselves through our double…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Perhaps she was just old-fashioned, Agnes said, but it seemed to her that severe introspection was a sure way to get lost in the smallest issues, to reduce one's life to a list of grievances. For her…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
27. All Who Live On Islands
By: Rose Lu
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate an… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Rose Lu's All Who Live On Islands book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
28. Can You Tolerate This?
By: Ashleigh Young
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling—and already prizewinning—collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappoin… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This? book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- literary fiction
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- 21st century
- audiobook
29. Ash
By: Louise Wallace
4.35
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Louise Wallace's Ash book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
30. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
- literary fiction
- contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
31. Bad Archive
By: Flora Feltham
4.67
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Bold, beautiful and constantly surprising essays about life, loss, joy and the fabric of memory. … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Flora Feltham's Bad Archive book and Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?
