24 Best fiction books like Life Events by Karolina Waclawiak

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Life Events

By: Karolina Waclawiak

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman at a crossroads learns the only way to reclaim her life is to help others dieWhat if Evelyn…

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1. Sleep Donation

By: Karen Russell

3.09

Format: None pages, ebook

From the author of the New York Timesbestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, … read more

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  • fiction
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2. A Philosophy of Walking

By: John Howe , Clifford Harper , Frédéric Gros

3.74

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

In A Philosophy of Walking, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get fro… read more

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"Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

3. En moderne familie

By: Helga Flatland

3.50

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Foreldrene til Liv, Ellen og Hakon har holdt sammen gjennom to mannsaldre. Nar far Sverre fyller sy… read more

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4. Smoke

By: Dan Vyleta

4.37

Format: None pages, ebook

England. A century ago, give or take a few years. An England where people who are wicked in thought… read more

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5. Go, Went, Gone

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

4.13

Format: None pages,

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more

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6. The Nix

By: Nathan Hill

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and ho… read more

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7. 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 Karolina Waclawiak's Life Events

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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9. The Yield

By: Tara June Winch

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

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10. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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11. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"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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12. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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13. The Possibilities

By: Yael Goldstein-Love

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel tha… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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14. My Work

By: Olga Ravn

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. You Can Trust Me

By: Wendy Heard

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her plac… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1)

By: Liz Kerin

3.91

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrou… read more

Similar categories in Liz Kerin's Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1) book and Karolina Waclawiak's Life Events

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

By: Louise Kennedy

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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18. New Teeth: Stories

By: Simon Rich

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Laugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning  “Serena Williams of hu… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

By: Isaac Fitzgerald

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more

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20. Fireworks Every Night

By: Beth Raymer

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida ha… read more

Similar categories in Beth Raymer's Fireworks Every Night book and Karolina Waclawiak's Life Events

  • drama
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Nosy Neighbors

By: Freya Sampson

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two neighbors-at-war band together to stop a dangerous criminal in their midst in this enthralling … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Late City

By: Robert Olen Butler

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A visionary and poignant novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Dark Horses

By: Susan Mihalic

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl’s fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Other Names for Love

By: Taymour Soomro

3.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Inne tonacje ciszy (Aspen i Joyce, #1)

By: Remigiusz Mróz

3.53

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Jak wiele może zmienić jedna, zapomniana kaseta magnetofonowa? Aspen Wakefield była pewna, że je… read more

Similar categories in Remigiusz Mróz's Inne tonacje ciszy (Aspen i Joyce, #1) book and Karolina Waclawiak's Life Events

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Little Gods

By: Meng Jin

3.60

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unrav… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Perhaps this was the first time I realized how simple it was to act as if certain parts of the past did not exist."

-Meng Jin, Little Gods

Cover of How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

27. How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the univers… read more

Similar categories in Raquel Vasquez Gilliland's How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe book and Karolina Waclawiak's Life Events

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Kadry niedogaszonych wspomnień (Aspen i Joyce, #2)

By: Remigiusz Mróz

3.81

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Pół roku po tym, jak Grayson Joyce znikł z jej życia, Aspen wciąż nie potrafi o nim zapomnieć. Odna… read more

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  • contemporary
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29. The Villain Edit

By: Laurie Devore

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Emily Henry meets Fleabag ...and The Bachelor ! An irresistibly sharp and sexy dramedy about a cyni… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Devore's The Villain Edit book and Karolina Waclawiak's Life Events

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"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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31. Life Events

By: Karolina Waclawiak

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman at a crossroads learns the only way to reclaim her life is to help others dieWhat if Evelyn… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • death
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • drama

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