20 must-read fiction books like How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman

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How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th…

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1. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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2. 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

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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3. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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4. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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5. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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7. 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

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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9. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" by Emma Specter

11. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"

By: Emma Specter

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more

Similar categories in Emma Specter's More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
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12. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more

Similar categories in Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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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15. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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16. Libby Lost and Found

By: Stephanie Booth

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Libby Lost and Found is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love. … read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Booth's Libby Lost and Found book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. 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 Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Leave the House by Nathan  Newman

18. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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19. The Repeat Room

By: Jesse Ball

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brillia… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg

20. A Reason to See You Again

By: Jami Attenberg

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's A Reason to See You Again book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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21. Blood Test: A Comedy

By: Charles Baxter

3.35

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) com… read more

Similar categories in Charles Baxter's Blood Test: A Comedy book and Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

17 best-selling contemporary books like How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman

Transform Your Habits

Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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Long Island Compromise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

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Playground

Richard Powers

4.35

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The Hypocrite

Jo Hamya

3.55

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20 must-read fiction books like Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Friends

Hisham Matar

4.34

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The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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