16 Top adult books like Immediate Family by Ashley Nelson Levy

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Immediate Family

By: Ashley Nelson Levy

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

A tender and fierce debut novel that explores the bond between two siblings—one the biological chil…

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1. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri

By: Tezer Özlü

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

2. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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3. The Appointment

By: Katharina Volckmer

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

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4. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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5. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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6. 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
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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7. Filthy Animals

By: Brandon Taylor

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

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9. Wahala

By: Nikki May

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive and exhilarating debut novel of female friendship following three Anglo-Nigerian best f… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. All This Could Be Different

By: Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

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12. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

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13. Agatha of Little Neon

By: Claire Luchette

3.97

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Oh, the Bible is full of freaks,' Therese said. She listed them on her fingers. 'At some point there's a talking donkey. And Joseph's got that crazy coat. And who's weirder than Jesus? The guy could …"

-Claire Luchette, Agatha of Little Neon

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14. Defenestrate

By: Renee Branum

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE An exuberant, wild… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
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15. The Favorites

By: Layne Fargo

4.48

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. An epic love story set in the sp… read more

Similar categories in Layne Fargo's The Favorites book and Ashley Nelson Levy's Immediate Family

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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17. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

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18. Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more

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  • fiction
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19. The Things We Didn’t Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
Cover of The Singularity (New York Review Classics) by Dino Buzzati

20. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)

By: Dino Buzzati

3.53

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more

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  • fiction
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21. 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
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes

22. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

By: Simon Barnes

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more

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"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"

-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

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23. A Map for the Missing

By: Belinda Huijuan Tang

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A M… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta

24. Frying Plantain

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky

25. Hurricane Girl

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice (“A cupcake that turns out to be nutri… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

27. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of Lover Birds by Leanne Egan

28. Lover Birds

By: Leanne Egan

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

With an irresistible enemies-to-lovers romance, and perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Becky Albe… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu

29. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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30. Immediate Family

By: Ashley Nelson Levy

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

A tender and fierce debut novel that explores the bond between two siblings—one the biological chil… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Nelson Levy's Immediate Family book and Ashley Nelson Levy's Immediate Family

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

31. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Anderson's Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous book and Ashley Nelson Levy's Immediate Family

  • adult

27 Best fiction books like Immediate Family by Ashley Nelson Levy

Transform Your Habits

Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri

Tezer Özlü

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Appointment

Katharina Volckmer

3.53

Transform Your Habits

River East, River West

Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez

3.61

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20 must-read fiction books like The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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