30 best-selling fiction books like Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine by Thao Votang

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Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

By: Thao Votang

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese-American Linh Ly’s …

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Cover of Kittentits by Holly    Wilson

1. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron

3. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By: Briony Cameron

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more

Similar categories in Briony Cameron's The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of This Book Won't Burn by Samira Ahmed

4. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

5. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa

7. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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8. The Break-Up Pact

By: Emma Lord

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two best friends who haven’t spoken in ten years pretend to date after break-ups with their respect… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"life is both too short and too long for being something you're not"

-Emma Lord, The Break-Up Pact

"Do you think gouda gets upset about getting older? No. It just gets more expensive at Trader Joe's."

-Emma Lord, The Break-Up Pact

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9. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Off the Books

By: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Going karura mean ride service off the books."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"On the Fourth, he’d been cowardly. And this time he hadn’t missed."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"Was the decline of journalistic ethics an inevitable result of capitalism?"

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"She would hate it, but she’s saving her hate for the Three I’s. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

Cover of Jenny James Is Not a Disaster by Debbie  Johnson

12. Jenny James Is Not a Disaster

By: Debbie Johnson

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it takes life falling apart . . . to piece yourself back together. Single mum Jenny is o… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Johnson's Jenny James Is Not a Disaster book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Humor Me

By: Cat Shook

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to the New York City stand-up scene, as told by a charmingly jaded assistant at a lat… read more

Similar categories in Cat Shook's Humor Me book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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15. Big in Sweden

By: Sally Franson

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. In Every Life

By: Rea Frey

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What happens when a husband's dying wish is for his wife to find a new love... before he's even gon… read more

Similar categories in Rea Frey's In Every Life book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Between Friends & Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi

17. Between Friends & Lovers

By: Shirlene Obuobi

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Talia Hibbert meets Carley Fortune in this swoon-worthy story of love and friendship in the age of … read more

Similar categories in Shirlene Obuobi's Between Friends & Lovers book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine by Thao  Votang

18. Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

By: Thao Votang

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese-American Linh Ly’s … read more

Similar categories in Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang

19. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

Similar categories in Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of People Will Talk by Kieran Scott

20. People Will Talk

By: Kieran Scott

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kieran Scott brings her distinctive prose to this breathlessly suspenseful novel that combines Glas… read more

Similar categories in Kieran Scott's People Will Talk book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Singer Sisters

By: Sarah Marian Seltzer

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It's 1996, and alt-rocker Emma Cantor is on tour, with her sights trained on a record deal. Emma's … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Marian Seltzer's The Singer Sisters book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Remember, Rose, a wild journey is what men have the freedom to do,' she said. 'Women must find salvation in laundry loads."

-Sarah Marian Seltzer, The Singer Sisters

"Would either Mary or Judie pick up on the quality she'd loved in Barry, too--in any man who possessed it: the steady eyes, the follw-up questions, the interest in seeing her eat? She couldn't quite e…"

-Sarah Marian Seltzer, The Singer Sisters

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22. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Haunt Sweet Home book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity  Nguyen

23. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. There's Nothing Wrong with Her

By: Kate Weinberg

3.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A crackling, tender, and perfectly off-kilter novel about love, madness, illness, and recovery.Vita… read more

Similar categories in Kate Weinberg's There's Nothing Wrong with Her book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Memento Mori by Eunice Hong

25. Memento Mori

By: Eunice Hong

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Don’t look back. Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask? In this b… read more

Similar categories in Eunice Hong's Memento Mori book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • fiction
Cover of The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo

26. The Witches of El Paso

By: Luis Jaramillo

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richl… read more

Similar categories in Luis Jaramillo's The Witches of El Paso book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Rachel Weiss's Group Chat by Lauren Appelbaum

27. Rachel Weiss's Group Chat

By: Lauren Appelbaum

3.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Opposites attract in this hilariously cheeky, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about feeling stuck, t… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Appelbaum's Rachel Weiss's Group Chat book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. The Whisper Sister

By: Jennifer S. Brown

4.57

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of Modern Girls delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New Y… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer S. Brown's The Whisper Sister book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. The City in Glass

By: Nghi Vo

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The City in Glass book and Thao Votang's Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

  • adult
  • fiction
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30. In the Air Tonight

By: Marie Force

4.68

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

I was there. I saw what you did.BlaiseI wasn’t supposed to be there that night, but my friend Sienn… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng

31. Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

By: Anne Anlin Cheng

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An important book – a  bold, moving, intimate look both personal and political at race, gender, ide… read more

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