12 Best contemporary books like The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos by Rachel Cusk

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The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos

By: Rachel Cusk

4.16

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

“These novels are among the most important written in this century so far.” —The Globe and Mail Ra…

"Supongo, añadí, que esa es una definición del amor, creer en algo que solo dos personas pueden ver."

-Rachel Cusk, The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos by Rachel Cusk , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Troubling Love

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Bril… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. How Should a Person Be?

By: Sheila Heti

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Storiesand Ticknorcomes a bold interrogatio… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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3. Veronica

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.59

Format: None pages,

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

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5. The Marriage Plot

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

3.32

Format: 224 pages,

With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Euge… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

7. Min kamp 5 (Min kamp #5)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Femte bind av den selvbiografiske romanen Min kamp er skrevet med voldsom kraft og oppriktighet. Ka… read more

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8. Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.54

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

9. De polyglotta älskarna

By: Lina Wolff

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

Drommen om forstaelse Max Lamas drommer om en alskarinna som talar alla hans sprak. Sokandet tar ho… read more

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10. Drömfakulteten

By: Sara Stridsberg

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ett hotellrum i Tenderloin District, torskdistriktet i San Francisco. Det ar april 1988 och Valerie… read more

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11. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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12. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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13. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

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"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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14. Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig

By: Amanda Romare

3.13

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Fyra av tio vuxna i Sverige lever i singelhushåll. Det borde finnas nästan tre miljoner singlar i v… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Mina syskon och deras partners är i alla fall jättefina men i min tidsepok "dissdecenniet" så kommer det små knivhugg när jag ser vissa ömsinta grejer de gör mot varandra [..] Det är så givet för dem…"

-Amanda Romare, Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig

"Tidigare har jag alltid tänkt att äldre personer på något sätt bara sjunker in i rollen som just gamling. Helt plötsligt slutar man köra bil, får hemtjänst och till slut accepterar man äldreboendet .…"

-Amanda Romare, Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig

Cover of D e kroniskt by Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli

15. D e kroniskt

By: Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli

3.40

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

»Det kan verka som att allt gått i lås. Terapin har hjälpt. Man träffar en bra man. Får barn. Man b… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • canada
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17. Samlade verk

By: Lydia Sandgren

4.08

Format: 689 pages, Hardcover

I Göteborg förbereds en stor retrospektiv över konstnären Gustav Beckers verk från 1980-talet och f… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You’re right,"

-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk

"People engage in a lot of self-deception,"

-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk

"Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about what a person has a right to tell other people. As a therapist, it’s simple: everything you’re told is confidential. Outside the clinic, however, there are un…"

-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk

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18. Eufori: En roman om Sylvia Plath

By: Elin Cullhed

3.52

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Eufori är en fantasi om Sylvia Plaths sista år i livet. I en rasande, böljande, bångstyrig text möt… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. En ny gud

By: Zara Kjellner

3.16

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Leila följer med pojkvännen Ludvig till hans familjegods, där salarna är magnifika och tunga tyger … read more

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  • fiction
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20. I Hear You're Rich

By: Diane Williams

2.60

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Diane Williams, “godmother of flash fiction” (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos by Rachel Cusk

21. The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos

By: Rachel Cusk

4.16

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

“These novels are among the most important written in this century so far.” —The Globe and Mail Ra… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos book and Rachel Cusk's The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • modern classics
"Supongo, añadí, que esa es una definición del amor, creer en algo que solo dos personas pueden ver."

-Rachel Cusk, The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos

14 Best fiction books like The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos by Rachel Cusk

Transform Your Habits

Troubling Love

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

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How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Veronica

Mary Gaitskill

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides

3.32

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30 best-selling fiction books like D e kroniskt by Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli

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Vinternoveller

Ingvild H. Rishøi

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Spådomen

Agneta Pleijel

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Alltings början

Karolina Ramqvist

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

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