14 Best contemporary books like I Keep My Worries in My Teeth by Anna Cox

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I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

By: Anna Cox

3.74

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

A dazzling, sublimely funny debut that follows three unforgettable women who fight back after life …

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1. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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2. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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4. The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

By: Alexia Casale

3.70

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hid… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We’re not fools for wanting love, only for lying to ourselves about whether we’ve found it"

-Alexia Casale, The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

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5. A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Westerbeke's A Short Walk Through a Wide World book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Book of M

By: Peng Shepherd

3.69

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordin… read more

Similar categories in Peng Shepherd's The Book of M book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We need to take care of what we can do before we sit around and worry about what we cant."

-Peng Shepherd, The Book of M

"I hope of all things, I forget you last, Ory. I hope I forget you even after I forget where we're going. I'd rather drive forever and never reach New Orleans, but still remember you"

-Peng Shepherd, The Book of M

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7. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

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9. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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10. Swift River

By: Essie J. Chambers

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more

Similar categories in Essie J. Chambers's Swift River book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • coming of age
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."

-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River

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11. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

Similar categories in Monica Wood's How to Read a Book book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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12. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • humor
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

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13. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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14. Louder Than Hunger

By: John Schu

4.55

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more

Similar categories in John Schu's Louder Than Hunger book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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16. Chorus

By: Rebecca Kauffman

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Our little hearts can carry only so much in one lifetime, after all."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

"And he knew that this beautiful world had a forked tongue. And he knew that everything he thought and felt and feared was real."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

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17. Colton Gentry's Third Act

By: Jeff Zentner

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Colton Gentry's Third Act book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no o…"

-Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

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18. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

By: Rachelle Bergstein

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Bergstein's The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • audiobook
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20. I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

By: Anna Cox

3.74

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

A dazzling, sublimely funny debut that follows three unforgettable women who fight back after life … read more

Similar categories in Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • coming of age
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Strange Case of Jane O.

By: Karen Thompson Walker

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding novel, a young mother is struck by a mysterious psychological affliction that … read more

Similar categories in Karen Thompson Walker's The Strange Case of Jane O. book and Anna Cox's I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 Best fiction books like I Keep My Worries in My Teeth by Anna Cox

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Sipsworth

Simon Van Booy

4.26

Transform Your Habits

I Cheerfully Refuse

Leif Enger

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

Alexia Casale

3.70

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11 Best adult books like The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Rachelle Bergstein

Transform Your Habits

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

Transform Your Habits

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Kirsten Miller

4.19

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