21 Best fiction books like In the Field by Rachel Pastan

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In the Field

By: Rachel Pastan

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 1920, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love wit…

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1. Bloom into You, Vol. 1

By: Nakatani Nio

4.04

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

人に恋する気持ちがわからず悩みを抱える新入生・小糸侑は、生徒会の先輩・七海燈子が告白を受ける場面に遭遇する。誰からの告白にも心を動かされたことがないという燈子に共感を覚える侑だったが、やがて燈子から… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"The love they talk about in books and songs is always sparkling... I'd always longed for it myself. I wanted to feel like I'd sprouted wings, like i was floating in the air... I had high hopes. And y…"

-Nakatani Nio, Bloom into You, Vol. 1

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2. South of No North

By: Charles Bukowski

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

South of No North contains some of Bukowski's best work. Among the short stories collected in the b… read more

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  • fiction
"Никой не страда повече, отколкото трябва."

-Charles Bukowski, South of No North

"I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired."

-Charles Bukowski, South of No North

"So tired you want to quit, then you get more tired, and forget to quit."

-Charles Bukowski, South of No North

"Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that."

-Charles Bukowski, South of No North

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3. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

By: Jason Fagone

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figuresand In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the gr… read more

Similar categories in Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies book and Rachel Pastan's In the Field

  • audiobook
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4. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Rachel Pastan's In the Field

  • feminism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

5. Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

On opposing sides, Captain Cordelia Naismith and Admiral Lord Aral Vorkosigan marry and live in ari… read more

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6. Mudbound

By: Hillary Jordan

4.26

Format: 168 pages,

In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, an… read more

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7. People of the Book

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more

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8. Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space

By: Lynn Sherr

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights fro… read more

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9. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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10. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. What Could Be Saved

By: Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

3.97

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok in 1972 and Washington, DC, in 2019 about an expatr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Disappearing Earth

By: Julia Phillips

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducte… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el …"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

"Near him, she couldn't think of anything but him. But when they were a little apart she returned to herself, and she liked that woman she came back to. Someone...capable. Someone who maintained stand…"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

"He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred p…"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

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14. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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15. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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16. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Rachel Pastan's In the Field

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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17. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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18. 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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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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19. My Phantoms

By: Gwendoline Riley

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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21. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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22. The Limits

By: Nell Freudenberger

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. When We Were Young

By: Richard Roper

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Something to Live For , a nostalgic, heart-warming story of two long-lost friend… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

By: C.L. Clark

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780316542753 Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and rai… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Who needs a god of oceans when I could drown inside your eyes? Who needs a god of grain when I could feast between your thighs?"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Then, still holding the cup, Touraine giggled. This broad-shouldered, muscle-bound ex-soldier, who spent most of her time either glowering or bowing at people, had smirked at her future queen, and no…"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

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25. Greenland

By: David Santos Donaldson

3.80

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young auth… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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26. Bloom into You, Vol. 7

By: Nakatani Nio

4.48

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A CHANGE OF HEART Touko has finally started to move forward on her own two feet. Is there still a p… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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27. How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Trashlands

By: Alison Stine

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This thought-provoking apocalypse noir fires on all cylinders.” – Publishers Weekly starred review… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of In the Field by Rachel Pastan

30. In the Field

By: Rachel Pastan

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 1920, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love wit… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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31. The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

By: Zoë Playdon

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man and the secret 1968 legal case that provides “… read more

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  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • lgbt
  • queer

16 Best adult books like In the Field by Rachel Pastan

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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Disappearing Earth

Julia Phillips

3.84

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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Marisa Crane

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Patrick deWitt

3.41

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