6 Best short stories books like Sweet and Low: Stories by Nick White

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Sweet and Low: Stories

By: Nick White

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At first glance, the stories in Sweet and Low seem grounded in the everyday: they paint pictures of…

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1. Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

3.98

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more

Similar categories in George Saunders's Tenth of December book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • american
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

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2. Valencia

By: Michelle Tea

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Valencia book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Funny Girl

By: Nick Hornby

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in 1960's London, Funny Girlis a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie … read more

Similar categories in Nick Hornby's Funny Girl book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning by Claire Dederer

4. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

By: Claire Dederer

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio… read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

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5. The Eyes and the Impossible

By: Dave Eggers

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Eyes and the Impossible book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

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6. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

Similar categories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

Similar categories in Noor Naga's If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Incendiaries

By: R.O. Kwon

3.22

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elit… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee

4.39

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

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10. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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12. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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13. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Cleanness book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

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14. Tell the Machine Goodnight

By: Katie Williams

3.46

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommenda… read more

Similar categories in Katie Williams's Tell the Machine Goodnight book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing."

-Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

Cover of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

15. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

By: Rivka Galchen

3.40

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmos… read more

Similar categories in Rivka Galchen's Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"That's what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry."

-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

"I also felt that I had failed Hans in failing to save his child. Poor Susanna, in that house with me, but really alone. She mended every garment in the home, even those of the children. LittleHammer …"

-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

"Scudding is calming work, as it requires all of my attention to not let the knife slip. When I do it, I feel the steady purpose a cat must feel when bathing itself with its coarse tongue. Some of my …"

-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

"I was certain she would recover. She had so much strength in her, and spirit. I started making some pickles; I was thinking that many months ahead. The cucumbers were so green and compelling, and I c…"

-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

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16. Gordo

By: Jaime Cortez

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp … read more

Similar categories in Jaime Cortez's Gordo book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Tell Me How to Be

By: Neel Patel

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for… read more

Similar categories in Neel Patel's Tell Me How to Be book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."

-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be

"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."

-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be

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18. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

4.21

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Bolz-Weber's Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

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19. Mostly Dead Things

By: Kristen Arnett

3.38

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Arnett's Mostly Dead Things book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

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20. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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21. Sweet and Low: Stories

By: Nick White

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At first glance, the stories in Sweet and Low seem grounded in the everyday: they paint pictures of… read more

Similar categories in Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories book and Nick White's Sweet and Low: Stories

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • american
  • lgbt
  • collections
  • southern
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

16 Best fiction books like Sweet and Low: Stories by Nick White

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Tenth of December

George Saunders

3.98

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Valencia

Michelle Tea

2.57

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Funny Girl

Nick Hornby

3.64

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The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

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5 Best womens books like Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning by Claire Dederer

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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

Claire Dederer

3.69

Transform Your Habits

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Sara Petersen

3.35

Transform Your Habits

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Lynne Tillman

3.49

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