11 Best novels books like Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta

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Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Richard Russo's Somebody's Fool book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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Similar categories in Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Anne Tyler's French Braid book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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Similar categories in Andrew Sean Greer's Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2) book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"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 Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"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

Similar categories in Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

Similar categories in Grant Ginder's Let's Not Do That Again book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"What the fuck am I supposed to do with this thing?" "You're supposed to eat it," Cate says. "With what? A forklift?"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

"Inevitably there would be a complaint about dark faces, moving around neighborhoods where they didn't belong, and then another about gay teachers, making queers of their students. A world turned on i…"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

"It's got to be disappointing, being called all those things." Nancy thinks: How long has she been doing this? Nearly twenty years--she can pin it to the month. The answer to that question can never u…"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's Marrying the Ketchups book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Similar categories in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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"This time tomorrow, where will we be?"

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Forward, that was the idea. Until the future, whatever it was going to be."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"It's not about the time. It's about how you spend it. Where you put your energy."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win

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