19 best-selling fiction books like Total: Stories by Rebecca Miller

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Total: Stories

By: Rebecca Miller

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Miller returns to short fiction for the first time since her prodigious collection of stori…

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1. The Bradshaw Variations

By: Rachel Cusk

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Since leaving his job to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas has found the structure of … read more

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2. Maud Martha

By: Gwendolyn Brooks

3.75

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more

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3. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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4. The Odyssey

By: Lara Williams

3.09

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire o… read more

Similar categories in Lara Williams's The Odyssey book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I guess it should have made me more protective of myself or something. More cautious with what I give away. But I actually do the opposite. Give people more than what they ask for. To get it over wit…"

-Lara Williams, The Odyssey

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5. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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6. Watching Women & Girls

By: Danielle Pender

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"

-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

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7. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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8. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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9. Daddy

By: Emma Cline

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The stories in Emma Cline’s stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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11. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Easy Life

By: Marguerite Duras

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo… read more

Similar categories in Marguerite Duras's The Easy Life book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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14. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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15. Common Decency

By: Susannah Dickey

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and lo… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Common Decency book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Here Again Now

By: Okechukwu Nzelu

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you… read more

Similar categories in Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Show Them a Good Time

By: Nicole Flattery

3.23

Format: 257 pages, None

A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that wome… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Flattery's Show Them a Good Time book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Comedy is tragedy sped up."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"I don't like anybody my own age."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"a feeling of forever melancholy . . ."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"What have I done to deserve this life?"

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

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18. Reward System: Stories

By: Jem Calder

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Julia has landed a fresh start―at a “pan-European” restaurant. “Imagine that,” says her mother. “… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Open Up

By: Thomas Morris

3.77

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Morris's Open Up book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Total: Stories

By: Rebecca Miller

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Miller returns to short fiction for the first time since her prodigious collection of stori… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Rebecca Miller's Total: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

18 Top contemporary books like Total: Stories by Rebecca Miller

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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The Odyssey

Lara Williams

3.09

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August Blue

Deborah Levy

3.68

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Danielle Pender

3.69

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28 Top fiction books like Send Nudes by Saba Sams

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Penance

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3.90

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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