17 Top contemporary books like Lump by Nathan Whitlock

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Lump

By: Nathan Whitlock

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends …

"Cat wonders why she is so judgmental, hearing this. She married into money too, though she and Donovan had been together for months before she became aware of the glittering cloud of family wealth that lay behind his easy confidence."

-Nathan Whitlock, Lump

"Cat wonders why she is so judgmental, hearing this. She married into money too, though she and Donovan had been together for months before she became aware of the glittering cloud of family wealth that lay behind his easy confidence."

-Nathan Whitlock, Lump

"Cat wonders why she is so judgmental, hearing this. She married into money too, though she and Donovan had been together for months before she became aware of the glittering cloud of family wealth that lay behind his easy confidence."

-Nathan Whitlock, Lump

If you liked the contemporary plot in Lump by Nathan Whitlock , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Adversary by Michael Crummey

1. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

2. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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5. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Cover of The Fake by Zoe Whittall

6. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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7. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

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  • fiction
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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8. River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

9. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon

10. The Revenge List

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.53

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

They say life flashes before your eyes when you’re about to die. But all she could see was regret. … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Islands: Stories

By: Dionne Irving

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Damages by Genevieve  Scott

15. The Damages

By: Genevieve Scott

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Oye by Melissa Mogollon

16. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Clarion

By: Nina Dunic

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Lump by Nathan Whitlock

20. Lump

By: Nathan Whitlock

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends … read more

Similar categories in Nathan Whitlock's Lump book and Nathan Whitlock's Lump

  • contemporary
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • health
"Cat wonders why she is so judgmental, hearing this. She married into money too, though she and Donovan had been together for months before she became aware of the glittering cloud of family wealth th…"

-Nathan Whitlock, Lump

Cover of The Bliss House by Jim Bartley

21. The Bliss House

By: Jim Bartley

3.40

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Two young men bringing up a small child in the middle of nowhere. Everything could be fine, but str… read more

Similar categories in Jim Bartley's The Bliss House book and Nathan Whitlock's Lump

  • fiction

21 must-read fiction books like Lump by Nathan Whitlock

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

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23 Top fiction books like The Bliss House by Jim Bartley

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

South

Babak Lakghomi

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Little Cruelties

Liz Nugent

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Poor Deer

Claire Oshetsky

3.99

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