13 Top contemporary books like What Are You by Lindsay Lerman

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What Are You

By: Lindsay Lerman

4.38

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk a…

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1. 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

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Face Hole

By: Gary J. Shipley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

"The Face Hole is at once a testimony and a dossier, a metaphysical mystery of discarded anatomies,… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Street

By: Ann Petry

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Streettells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

4. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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  • fiction
"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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5. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

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  • fiction
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

6. 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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7. 10:04

By: Ben Lerner

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more

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8. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Pew

By: Catherine Lacey

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

Cover of Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager

10. Burn You the Fuck Alive

By: B.R. Yeager

4.01

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more

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  • fiction
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11. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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13. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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14. Alone

By: Thomas Moore

4.45

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Has Grindr killed psychic gay powers? For Halloween I’m dressing as a YouTube video of Corey Hai… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Animals Eat Each Other

By: Elle Nash

3.48

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

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18. My Dead Book

By: Nate Lippens

4.32

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

My Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Invisibility: A Manifesto by Audrey Szasz

19. Invisibility: A Manifesto

By: Audrey Szasz

4.38

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

’Shut your mouth,’ Mother tells me. I shut my mouth. ‘Wipe that idiotic grin off your face,’ she sa… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Anybody Home?

By: Michael J. Seidlinger

3.17

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasi… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Gag Reflex

By: Elle Nash

3.89

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Through diaristic ellipses, Nash crafts an origin story of obsessional masochism. 2005. Lucy sha… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Northwood: A Novella

By: Maryse Meijer

3.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Part fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant,… read more

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  • fiction
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23. No Tiger

By: Mika .

4.19

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

A girl is under fire from terrible psychic weaponry. Lizard women fornicate under corroded skylines… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Coyote by Max Restaino

24. Coyote

By: Max Restaino

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

“Bodies are weird. I think that’s why I’ve always been so drawn to them. Watching them, that is. Yo… read more

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25. Scumbag Summer: A Novel

By: Jillian Luft

4.72

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 2003 and an idealistic yet unambitious Florida college grad moves to Orlando—the… read more

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26. How I Killed The Universal Man

By: Thomas Kendall

4.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Lakerman, alternative current affairs journalist for donkeyWolf media, is sent to participate … read more

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27. Counterillumination

By: Audrey Szasz

4.48

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

The Story of Z. A witty and extravagant erotic classic for the 21st Century. Audrey Szasz’s thir… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Die Closer to Me

By: David Kuhnlein

4.56

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

David Kuhnlein's debut novella-in-stories Die Closer to Me follows Jo as she cares for her mother o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of What Are You by Lindsay Lerman

29. What Are You

By: Lindsay Lerman

4.38

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk a… read more

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  • fiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
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30. The Autodidacts

By: Thomas Kendall

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A man mysteriously disappears in a lighthouse, as if dissolved by light, leaving behind a notebook … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. The Berlin Wall

By: David Leo Rice

4.80

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Europe, 2020. Some claim that the Berlin Wall, once a living entity, is coming back together, its s… read more

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24 Best fiction books like What Are You by Lindsay Lerman

Transform Your Habits

Troubling Love

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Transform Your Habits

The Face Hole

Gary J. Shipley

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Street

Ann Petry

3.80

Transform Your Habits

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

3.72

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19 Top fiction books like Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Visions

Troy James Weaver

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Cipher

Kathe Koja

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Haar

David Sodergren

4.17

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