20 Best fiction books like No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

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Similar categories in Elif Batuman's The Idiot book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

Similar categories in Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• american
• humor
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• humor
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

Similar categories in Catherine Lacey's Biography of X book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

Similar categories in Natasha Brown's Assembly book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Similar categories in Elif Batuman's Either/Or book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Similar categories in Katie Kitamura's Intimacies book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

Similar categories in Raven Leilani's Luster book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"

-Raven Leilani, Luster

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

Similar categories in Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"I resented my mother and online feminism for making me paranoid."

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"People often say my generation values authenticity. Reluctantly I will admit to being a member of my generation. If we value authenticity it’s because we’ve been bombarded since our impressionable pr…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"For a few months, the political catastrophe seemed so dire that one's music and movie preferences were no longer considered the ultimate markers of one's moral fitness to fight fascism. Which became,…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"Consensus was the world was ending, or would begin to end soon, if not by exponential environmental catastrophe then by some combination of nuclear war, the American two-party system, patriarchy, whi…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

Similar categories in Danielle Celermajer's Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future book and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This