18 Best fiction books like Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis

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Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

By: Anna Moschovakis

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A novel about a woman writing a novel about a woman who writes — The Rejection of the Progress of L…

If you liked the fiction plot in Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties: Stories book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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2. Troubling Love

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Bril… read more

Similar categories in Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. A Separation

By: Katie Kitamura

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A yo… read more

Similar categories in Katie Kitamura's A Separation book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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4. What is Not Yours is Not Yours

By: Helen Oyeyemi

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock element… read more

Similar categories in Helen Oyeyemi's What is Not Yours is Not Yours book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature In the stillness… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Modiano's So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • novels
  • fiction

6. Arv og miljø

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

At ingen av dere pa noe tidspunkt har spurt meg om min historie, har jeg opplevd og opplever jeg so… read more

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7. Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more

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8. Crossings

By: Alex Landragin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed t… read more

Similar categories in Alex Landragin's Crossings book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • fiction
"As long as I have a glimpse of sky, I can tolerate almost any hardship."

-Alex Landragin, Crossings

"Here was a man who seemed to take amusement in the messiness of life--as close to a definition of happiness as I know."

-Alex Landragin, Crossings

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9. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Portrait of an Unknown Lady

By: María Gainza

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with her debut Optic Nerve, returns… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Memory edits things, colours them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever's needed to make the story work."

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

"Pero la realidad es más extraña que la ficción y más difusa también, y ahora que lo pienso no existe droga que pueda inducir una fantasía igual en tantos individuos diferentes. Todas las ramas de la …"

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

"No esperen nombres, estadísticas, fechas. Lo sólido se me escapa, solo queda entre mis dedos una atmósfera imprecisa, técnicamente soy una impresionista de la vieja escuela. Además, todos estos años …"

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

"Poseía «el ojo de halcón» que en el mundo del arte, como «el ojo clínico» en medicina, es un talento en extinción. Ella podía ver a través de una pintura, podía entender su matriz. Tenía un don innat…"

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

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11. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman

By: Patrícia Melo

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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14. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

By: Mirinae Lee

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more

Similar categories in Mirinae Lee's 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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15. Strange Beasts of China

By: Yan Ge

3.80

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful nov… read more

Similar categories in Yan Ge's Strange Beasts of China book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • fiction
"All we have are stories."

-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

"Never cry, or your tears will water your sorrow and it'll grow."

-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

"We were city people, after all, and didn't ask too many questions."

-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

"People should leave when their story is over,' he said. 'Don't you know that?"

-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

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16. Fake Accounts

By: Lauren Oyler

2.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman in a post-election tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"I resented my mother and online feminism for making me paranoid."

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"People often say my generation values authenticity. Reluctantly I will admit to being a member of my generation. If we value authenticity it’s because we’ve been bombarded since our impressionable pr…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"For a few months, the political catastrophe seemed so dire that one's music and movie preferences were no longer considered the ultimate markers of one's moral fitness to fight fascism. Which became,…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"Consensus was the world was ending, or would begin to end soon, if not by exponential environmental catastrophe then by some combination of nuclear war, the American two-party system, patriarchy, whi…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

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17. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

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  • poetry
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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18. Peaces

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more

Similar categories in Helen Oyeyemi's Peaces book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"

-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces

"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."

-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces

"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."

-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces

"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"

-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces

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19. A Door Behind A Door

By: Yelena Moskovich

3.68

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What is life, if you cannot willingly go into the heart of the storm. What is life, if you cannot willingly storm someone's heart. What is life, if you cannot willingly leave safe waters."

-Yelena Moskovich, A Door Behind A Door

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20. Ramifications

By: Daniel Saldaña París

4.11

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

A thirty-two-year old man can’t get out of bed or leave his apartment. All he can do is recall his … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Saldaña París's Ramifications book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis

21. Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

By: Anna Moschovakis

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A novel about a woman writing a novel about a woman who writes — The Rejection of the Progress of L… read more

Similar categories in Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love book and Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • poetry
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

13 Best contemporary books like Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis

Transform Your Habits

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Troubling Love

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Transform Your Habits

A Separation

Katie Kitamura

3.66

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What is Not Yours is Not Yours

Helen Oyeyemi

4.01

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20 must-read fiction books like Exhibit by R.O. Kwon

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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