12 must-read fiction books like MFA Thesis Novel by Ian M. Rogers

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MFA Thesis Novel

By: Ian M. Rogers

4.57

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Creative ne’er-do-well Flip Montcalm isn’t cut out for office life, so he jumps at the chance to jo…

If you liked the fiction plot in MFA Thesis Novel by Ian M. Rogers , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. A Prayer for Owen Meany

By: John Irving

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, h… read more

Similar categories in John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Six Wakes

By: Mur Lafferty

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -… read more

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  • fiction
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3. A Man Without a Country

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more

Similar categories in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s A Man Without a Country book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • humor

4. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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5. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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6. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

Similar categories in Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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7. The Puma Years

By: Laura Coleman

4.34

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating jour… read more

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"The jungle really seems to listen to everything. I've never felt so vulnerable. It won't stop listening, and I don't know how to tell it that I hate it."

-Laura Coleman, The Puma Years

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8. The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more

Similar categories in Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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10. All This Could Be Different

By: Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

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11. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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12. Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.05

Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition

As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2) book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • fiction
"they were 'the Muses' bringing brilliance down from upon high"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

"they were "the Muses," brining brilliance down from upon high"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

"Not all revolutions mean burning down a damned city. I am no historian, but ... it seems likely those are far from the norm..."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

"If things go poorly, tell her to wait for us. If things go really, quite very poorly, get on a ship and go and do not look back."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

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13. Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more

Similar categories in Emily Habeck's Shark Heart book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

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14. The Bad Muslim Discount

By: Syed M. Masood

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, Bad Muslim Dis… read more

Similar categories in Syed M. Masood's The Bad Muslim Discount book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"For Abu too,"

-Syed M. Masood, The Bad Muslim Discount

"I suppose we have to change the national anthem then."

-Syed M. Masood, The Bad Muslim Discount

"There is no us, Abu Fahd. There is no them. We're all the same."

-Syed M. Masood, The Bad Muslim Discount

"I am saying that you should read everyone else's story with the same respect as you do your own."

-Syed M. Masood, The Bad Muslim Discount

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15. Unlikely Animals

By: Annie Hartnett

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this… read more

Similar categories in Annie Hartnett's Unlikely Animals book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be."

-Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

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16. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.41

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more

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17. House of Sticks

By: Ly Tran

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more

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18. The Falcon, the Wolf, and the Hummingbird

By: Martha Engber

4.44

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A consummate warrior and brilliant strategist, Pino is a young Native American woman who must fight… read more

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19. Death and Other Survival Strategies

By: Carolyn R. Russell

4.41

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “You will emerge on the other side of this book laughing, crying, and braver.” Lorette C. Luz… read more

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20. Italian Bones in the Snow: A Memoir in Shorts

By: Elaina Battista-Parsons

4.84

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ "Reminded me of periods of my life as an Italian-American bambina." Justine Manzano Italia… read more

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Cover of MFA Thesis Novel by Ian M.  Rogers

21. MFA Thesis Novel

By: Ian M. Rogers

4.57

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Creative ne’er-do-well Flip Montcalm isn’t cut out for office life, so he jumps at the chance to jo… read more

Similar categories in Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel book and Ian M. Rogers's MFA Thesis Novel

  • literary fiction
  • academia
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary

8 Top contemporary books like MFA Thesis Novel by Ian M. Rogers

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A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

4.33

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Several People Are Typing

Calvin Kasulke

3.65

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All This Could Be Different

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3.85

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Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty

3.91

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21 Top fiction books like Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Angie Kim

3.75

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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