8 must-read fiction books like Things We Worried About When I Was Ten by David Rabe

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Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

By: David Rabe

3.04

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

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 David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

  • short stories
  • fiction
"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. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

Similar categories in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour book and David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

  • short stories
  • fiction
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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3. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

Similar categories in Nella Larsen's Passing book and David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

  • fiction
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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4. A Certain Hunger

By: Chelsea G. Summers

3.77

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Doro… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea G. Summers's A Certain Hunger book and David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

  • fiction
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I enjoy a man who’s kissed with a yeasty beastliness."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I knew from a young age that motherhood was a cage I never wanted to inhabit."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

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5. Cat Person

By: Kristen Roupenian

3.67

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

She thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herse… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Roupenian's Cat Person book and David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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7. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch book and David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

  • fiction
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

Cover of You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories by Mary South

8. You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

By: Mary South

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape th… read more

Similar categories in Mary South's You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories book and David Rabe's Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

  • short stories
  • fiction
"No one will save her. Nothing is going to magically make it better. The woman has to figure out her life."

-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

"I cradle Keith with a mole against my chest to turn him over, then I massage his butt. "You're special," I whisper in his ear, at a moment when I'm pretty sure no one is looking. "You're a special Ke…"

-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

"The Keiths are Keiths because they are not particularly handsome, not particularly intelligent, not particularly kind. A Keith would never train to compete in professional sports or practice an instr…"

-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

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9. Things We Worried About When I Was Ten

By: David Rabe

3.04

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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3.84

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Kate Chopin

4.07

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Kristen Roupenian

3.67

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3.57

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Laura van den Berg

3.89

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Gabe Habash

3.94

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