6 must-read historical fiction books like Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

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Jacket Weather

By: Mike DeCapite

3.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Nick Hornby meets Patti Smith, Mean Streets meets A Visit From the Goon Squad in this quintessentia…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Problems

By: Jade Sharma

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Dark, raw, and very funny, Problems introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time t… read more

Similar categories in Jade Sharma's Problems book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The English Major

By: Jim Harrison

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

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Similar categories in Jim Harrison's The English Major book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose

3. For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink

By: Sarah Rose

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the E… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose's For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • historical
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4. Sweetbitter

By: Stephanie Danler

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • romance
  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Jungle

By: Upton Sinclair , Earl Lee , None , Kathleen De Grave

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stoc… read more

Similar categories in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

6. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

By: P.E. Moskowitz

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The term gentrificationhas become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across … read more

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7. The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more

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  • fiction
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

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8. The New Naturals

By: Gabriel Bump

2.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely n… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Bump's The New Naturals book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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10. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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11. 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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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
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12. 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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13. Writers & Lovers

By: Lily King

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily K… read more

Similar categories in Lily King's Writers & Lovers book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature"

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"It's a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"God, you poets are full of shit. You have no idea what half the words you worship mean."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

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14. Even As We Breathe

By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more

Similar categories in Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle's Even As We Breathe book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte

15. No One Left to Come Looking for You

By: Sam Lipsyte

3.23

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more

Similar categories in Sam Lipsyte's No One Left to Come Looking for You book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • music
  • new york
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Popisho

By: Leone Ross

3.82

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more

Similar categories in Leone Ross's Popisho book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

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17. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

By: Katya Apekina

4.08

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump … read more

Similar categories in Katya Apekina's The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up …"

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

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18. A Very Nice Girl

By: Imogen Crimp

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very N… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Crimp's A Very Nice Girl book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • romance
  • music
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

19. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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20. 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

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's White on White book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

21. Jacket Weather

By: Mike DeCapite

3.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Nick Hornby meets Patti Smith, Mean Streets meets A Visit From the Goon Squad in this quintessentia… read more

Similar categories in Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather book and Mike DeCapite's Jacket Weather

  • romance
  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • music
  • love
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction

17 Best fiction books like Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

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Jade Sharma

4.01

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Jim Harrison

3.95

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Sweetbitter

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3.49

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The Jungle

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Strange as This Weather Has Been

Ann Pancake

3.88

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A Land More Kind Than Home

Wiley Cash

3.88

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