6 must-read womens books like Motion Sickness (Masks) by Lynne Tillman

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Motion Sickness (Masks)

By: Lynne Tillman

3.39

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Book by Tillman, Lynne

"…the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"…the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"The rain persists, an amniotic fluid, the perfect environment for reading in a room, a womb of one’s own."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"The rain persists, an amniotic fluid, the perfect environment for reading in a room, a womb of one’s own."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

If you liked the womens plot in Motion Sickness (Masks) by Lynne Tillman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Eve's Hollywood

By: Eve Babitz

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more

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2. Written on the Body

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Chocky

By: John Wyndham

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more

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4. 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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5. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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6. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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7. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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8. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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10. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Lynne Tillman's Motion Sickness (Masks)

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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12. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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13. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

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  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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15. Saving Agnes

By: Rachel Cusk

3.43

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes -- she wanted to be a p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
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16. None of This Is Serious

By: Catherine Prasifka

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

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17. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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18. 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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19. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Rest and Be Thankful

By: Emma Glass

3.52

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

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21. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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  • contemporary
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22. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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23. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Family and Borghesia

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Come Rain or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro

25. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Sheep's Clothing

By: Celia Dale

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Grace meets Janice in Holloway Prison. Once both women are released, Janice quickly becomes accompl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Janice watched him go with astonishing regret"

-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing

"But while pleased to surrender to Grace's authority, Janice enjoyed resenting it."

-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing

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27. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Open Up

By: Thomas Morris

3.77

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Motion Sickness (Masks)

By: Lynne Tillman

3.39

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"…the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"The rain persists, an amniotic fluid, the perfect environment for reading in a room, a womb of one’s own."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"…but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that’s what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn’t bear to move on."

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

"... I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I’m suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to over…"

-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)

Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

30. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

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  • fiction
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31. She's Always Hungry: Stories

By: Eliza Clark

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Jeanette Winterson

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Deborah Levy

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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