17 must-read contemporary books like The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

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The Tree Doctor

By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one’s self Whe…

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1. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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2. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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

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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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4. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Tree Doctor

By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one’s self Whe… read more

Similar categories in Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • nature
  • audiobook
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6. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • 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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8. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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9. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Phoenix Bride

By: Natasha Siegel

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A passionate tale of plague, fire, and forbidden love in seventeenth-century London from the acclai… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Siegel's The Phoenix Bride book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

Similar categories in Caoilinn Hughes's The Alternatives book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Fervor

By: Toby Lloyd

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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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15. Sleeping Giants

By: Rene Denfeld

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, a compelling and poignant story … read more

Similar categories in Rene Denfeld's Sleeping Giants book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Villarreal-Moura's Like Happiness book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Tiananmen Square

By: Lai Wen

4.10

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

An epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the y… read more

Similar categories in Lai Wen's Tiananmen Square book and Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My father. He was, I realize now, rather small for a man, both lean and compact, but as a small child you inhabit a land of giants. And fathers are the tallest giants of all."

-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

"As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin to illness, something that left a person weak and in some way less than themselves. But I ne…"

-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

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18. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook

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Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

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Miranda July

3.81

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4.54

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3.97

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3.82

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