28 must-read fiction books like Adam Unrehearsed by Don Futterman

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Adam Unrehearsed

By: Don Futterman

4.40

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of The Chosen, Catcher in the Rye , and The Kite Runner comes Adam Unrehearsed , a “hil…

If you liked the fiction plot in Adam Unrehearsed by Don Futterman , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. Forest Dark

By: Nicole Krauss

3.08

Format: 304 pages, ebook

From the bestselling, twice Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a … read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
"One is always in the hold of the world, but one doesn't physically feel it's hold, doesn't account for its effect. Cannot draw comfort from the hold of the world, which registers only as a neutral em…"

-Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark

"He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, however slight, and without the rhythm of her breath the dark had no measure. There were times he wo…"

-Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark

"In the months after the relationship ends, a person can seem to grow at a lightning rate, like in a nature documentary where weeks of footage is run at high speed to show a plant unfurling in seconds…"

-Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark

"When I woke again, it was into a homesickness that felt physical, as its symptoms had been physical for seventeenth-century mercenary soldiers who'd fallen ill from being so far from home, the first …"

-Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark

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2. Invisible City (Rebekah Roberts, #1)

By: Julia Dahl

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City, journ… read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
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3. The Forgetting Time

By: Sharon Guskin

3.00

Format: None pages,

"What if what you did mattered more because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding a… read more

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  • fiction
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4. La simmetria dei desideri

By: Eshkol Nevo , Ofra Bannet , Raffaella Scardi

4.13

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Quattro amici guardano in televisione la finale dei Mondiali di calcio del 1998. Non hanno ancora t… read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
"Quando si viaggia con una persona per dei mesi, tutti i normali canali di conversazione, quelli forzosi, si esauriscono, e si arriva a comportarsi con la massima naturalezza. Si conversa con parsimon…"

-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri

"Si, ho pensato. Voglio salire. Certo che voglio salire. E già per le scale afferrarti i fianchi. Forte. E darti un piccolo bacio leggero sulla nuca. Proprio dove finisce la spina dorsale. E più tardi…"

-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri

5. The River and the Source

By: Margaret A. Ogola

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1995, this novel won both the Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize… read more

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  • fiction

6. Syrup

By: Max Barry

3.87

Format: 515 pages,

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7. The Last Time I Saw You

By: Jo Leevers

4.04

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

She’s waiting to become a mother—but first she has to find her own. Weeks away from the birth of… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Wolf Hunt

By: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a… read more

Similar categories in Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's The Wolf Hunt book and Don Futterman's Adam Unrehearsed

  • fiction
  • jewish
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9. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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10. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Museum of Failures

By: Thrity Umrigar

4.13

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more

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  • fiction
"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

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14. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Fox Wife book and Don Futterman's Adam Unrehearsed

  • fiction
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

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15. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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16. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Don Futterman's Adam Unrehearsed

  • fiction
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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17. The Dance Teacher of Paris

By: Suzanne Fortin

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

'But how will I look after them? Where can I hide them?' She looked up at me and didn't try to sto… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Fortin's The Dance Teacher of Paris book and Don Futterman's Adam Unrehearsed

  • fiction
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18. The Goddess of Warsaw

By: Lisa Barr

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
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19. The Stone Home

By: Crystal Hana Kim

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean… read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
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20. Granite Harbor

By: Peter Nichols

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more

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  • fiction
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21. The Lost Van Gogh

By: Jonathan Santlofer

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpiece… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
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23. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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24. Promised Land

By: Martin Fletcher

3.92

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

From author Martin Fletcher comes Promised Land, an epic family saga that crosses the globeThe tumu… read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
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25. Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp

By: Michelle Moran

4.30

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dram… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

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  • fiction
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27. On Her Own

By: Lihi Lapid

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laur… read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
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28. Wan

By: Dawn Promislow

3.95

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

29. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Adam Unrehearsed by Don Futterman

30. Adam Unrehearsed

By: Don Futterman

4.40

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of The Chosen, Catcher in the Rye , and The Kite Runner comes Adam Unrehearsed , a “hil… read more

Similar categories in Don Futterman's Adam Unrehearsed book and Don Futterman's Adam Unrehearsed

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • jewish
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31. Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times

By: Shira Dicker

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Rich with authentic detail and insight, these compelling stories sweep the reader along on an intim… read more

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