20 must-read fiction books like Have Mercy On Us by Lisa Cupolo

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Have Mercy On Us

By: Lisa Cupolo

4.65

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"What exquisite stories these are, each of them immaculately composed, each of them powerfully tran…

"After thirty years of marriage, jealousy has few fangs."

-Lisa Cupolo, Have Mercy On Us

"After thirty years of marriage, jealousy has few fangs."

-Lisa Cupolo, Have Mercy On Us

If you liked the fiction plot in Have Mercy On Us by Lisa Cupolo , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Financial Lives of the Poets

By: Jess Walter

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

The Financial Lives of the Poetsis a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jes… read more

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  • fiction

2. Girl Factory

By: Jim Krusoe

4.49

Format: 563 pages, Paperback

A yogurt parlor in a corner mall somewhere in the city of St. Nils contains a dark secret in its ba… read more

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3. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jessica Bruder

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more

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"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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5. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • fiction
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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6. Very Cold People

By: Sarah Manguso

3.38

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more

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  • fiction
"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

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7. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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8. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Signal Fires

By: Dani Shapiro

3.91

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more

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  • fiction
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

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10. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • fiction
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11. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Witness: Stories

By: Jamel Brinkley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."

-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories

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13. Evidence of Things Seen

By: Sarah Weinman

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more

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14. When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People

By: Jeannie Gaffigan

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt New York Times bestselling memoir from wr… read more

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15. The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Boy in the Rain

By: Stephanie Cowell

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-y… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

17. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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18. The Bohemians

By: Jasmin Darznik

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, exploring the w… read more

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  • fiction
"Live every day as if you might be struck blind--that was the rule I made for myself now. In those first few days after the quarantine was lifted, we went around marveling at the smallest things, as i…"

-Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

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19. The Kudzu Queen

By: Mimi Herman

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Funny, sad, and tender… Mimi Herman has written a novel that possesses a true and hard won underst… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Playhouse

By: Richard Bausch

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the novel as well as the story .… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Magdalena

By: Candi Sary

4.51

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

“Beautifully written and satisfyingly creepy, this is one of the most poignant and original ghost s… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Strip: A Memoir

By: Hannah Sward

4.39

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Born in the bohemian seventies, Hannah Sward was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her poet f… read more

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23. The War Ends At Four

By: Rosanna Staffa

4.17

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

This is a bravura performance.” —Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Li… read more

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  • fiction
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24. All the Girls in Town

By: Staci Greason

4.28

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Three smart, sexy–-and slightly screwed up--women join forces to exact revenge on the rising rock s… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Have Mercy On Us

By: Lisa Cupolo

4.65

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"What exquisite stories these are, each of them immaculately composed, each of them powerfully tran… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"After thirty years of marriage, jealousy has few fangs."

-Lisa Cupolo, Have Mercy On Us

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26. Tell Me One Thing

By: Kerri Schlottman

4.31

Format: 232 pages, Audiobook

2023 Literary Fiction Best Book Finalist of the American Book Fest 2024 Spring Book Award Winner o… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Burst

By: Mary Otis

3.81

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Mary Otis of Yes, Yes, Cherries (“Funny, brave, and amazing” —Lorrie Moore) de… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Bare Naked in Public: A Memoir by Christine Amoroso

28. Bare Naked in Public: A Memoir

By: Christine Amoroso

4.63

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you have to risk baring it all. Christine Amoroso did everything right to achieve the … read more

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29. Love and Protest

By: Nancy Klann-Moren

4.64

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

POIGNANT AND HEARTFELT THE IDEAL NOVEL FOR A BOOK CLUB While wandering through the Second Chanc… read more

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30. Find a Place for Me

By: Deirdre Fagan

4.80

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

“…This memoir will burrow down deep into your heart, finding its own place of comfort there. I dare… read more

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31. Escape to Butterfly Ave

By: Max Evans

4.71

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

There's eight million stories in the naked city but billions more from around the world due to the … read more

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Jim Gaffigan

3.50

Transform Your Habits

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Michele Bender , Yolanda Hadid

3.79

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Stacy Pershall

3.93

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