15 must-read adult fiction books like The Deceptions by Jill Bialosky

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The Deceptions

By: Jill Bialosky

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jil…

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1. The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

By: Vivian Gornick

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the Cityexp… read more

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2. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

Similar categories in Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

Similar categories in Becca Rothfeld's All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • audiobook
  • art
  • contemporary
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4. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

Similar categories in Temim Fruchter's City of Laughter book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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7. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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8. Dead in Long Beach, California

By: Venita Blackburn

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more

Similar categories in Venita Blackburn's Dead in Long Beach, California book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Delphi

By: Clare Pollard

3.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a proph… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We are so bored of our unreal lives it is a change, at least; it is history happening."

-Clare Pollard, Delphi

"Force our every interaction online so they can scrape it for data and sell predictions to shadowy forces of what we'll do before we know ourselves."

-Clare Pollard, Delphi

"In a globalized world, there are few purchases or gestures that do not - like the flicker of a butterfly's wings - negatively affect someone on earth. With almost every daily action I contribute to w…"

-Clare Pollard, Delphi

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10. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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11. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Alpert Florin's My Last Innocent Year book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. Rabbit Hole

By: Kate Brody

3.10

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Conspiracy theories from Reddit seduce a disaster-prone woman into an obsession with solving her ol… read more

Similar categories in Kate Brody's Rabbit Hole book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Glow

By: Jessie Gaynor

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more

Similar categories in Jessie Gaynor's The Glow book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."

-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow

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14. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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15. The Exhibitionist

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Sun Sets in Singapore

By: Kehinde Fadipe

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, low tax rate, and luxury goods market, Dara, Amaka, and Li… read more

Similar categories in Kehinde Fadipe's The Sun Sets in Singapore book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Tell Me I'm An Artist

By: Chelsea Martin

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a work-in-progress (Sharma Shields), this hilarious and incisive coming… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Martin's Tell Me I'm An Artist book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • art
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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18. Inverno

By: Cynthia Zarin

2.98

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A daring, heartbreaking novel, Inverno is the book that J. D. Salinger’s Franny Glass might have wr… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Zarin's Inverno book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

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20. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. 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
  • audiobook
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22. In the Act

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Ingalls's In the Act book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."

-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act

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23. Reunion

By: Elise Juska

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more

Similar categories in Elise Juska's Reunion book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. The Complicities

By: Stacey D'Erasmo

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more

Similar categories in Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities book and Jill Bialosky's The Deceptions

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. A Likely Story

By: Leigh McMullan Abramson

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything s… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"People who publish are writers. No one says, 'I'm a lawyer' because they act out imaginary court scenes in their bedrooms."

-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story

"The flip side of her steady dependability was that she had no margin for error. If Claire forgot a birthday or was five minutes late, it was intolerable precisely because it happened so infrequently.…"

-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story

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26. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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27. Reproduction

By: Louisa Hall

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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28. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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29. Mother in the Dark

By: Kayla Maiuri

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. Whe… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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30. Hundred Waters, The

By: Lauren Acampora

3.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her afflue… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. The Deceptions

By: Jill Bialosky

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jil… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • poetry
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • campus

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3.36

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