6 Best feminism books like What a Shame by Abigail Bergstrom

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What a Shame

By: Abigail Bergstrom

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with…

If you liked the feminism plot in What a Shame by Abigail Bergstrom , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • 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

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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • 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

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4. What a Shame

By: Abigail Bergstrom

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. When We Were Friends

By: Holly Bourne

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differe… read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's When We Were Friends book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

Similar categories in Saba Sams's Send Nudes book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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8. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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9. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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10. Wet Paint

By: Chloë Ashby

3.79

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything an… read more

Similar categories in Chloë Ashby's Wet Paint book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • literary fiction
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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12. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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13. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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14. At the Table

By: Claire Powell

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more

Similar categories in Claire Powell's At the Table book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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16. Saltwater

By: Jessica Andrews

3.79

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Saltwater book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

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17. Common Decency

By: Susannah Dickey

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and lo… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Common Decency book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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18. Tennis Lessons

By: Susannah Dickey

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Tennis Lessons book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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19. Limelight

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Limelight book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lord's Notes on Heartbreak book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • mental health
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

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21. Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Careering book and Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame

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

20 Best fiction books like What a Shame by Abigail Bergstrom

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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I'm a Fan

Sheena Patel

3.32

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What a Shame

Abigail Bergstrom

3.49

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20 Top fiction books like Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

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