20 Top fiction books like The Long Form by Kate Briggs

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Similar categories in Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• 21st century
• novels

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• british literature

"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• parenting
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"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

Similar categories in Kate Briggs's The Long Form book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• parenting
• british literature
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• 21st century
• novels

"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• british literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Similar categories in Ed Park's Same Bed Different Dreams book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• fiction

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

Similar categories in Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• 21st century
• novels

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

Similar categories in Olga Ravn's My Work book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
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Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

Similar categories in Eliza Barry Callahan's The Hearing Test book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

Similar categories in Sebastián Martínez Daniell's Two Sherpas book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• novels

"One minute it represents the pinnacle of gregarious engineering, the most refined Apollonian mechanism of social regulation; the next it’s a groping homunculus spewing pus and other people’s blood on…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"Actions, thoughts, interpretations, dialogues and soliloquies, sufferings… are nothing more than intermittently surging projections, stamps on the surface of the knowable. Symptoms. The real is in th…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"Although it could be argued that every voyage already contains, in latent form, the possibility of its deviations. That they’re never random. That nor are they predestined. But they are larval, that …"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"It’s a brief moment before the word is returned to the box of the irreversible, before it makes itself present with its flotilla of tragic predestinations. A regrettable loss, a true disaster. The li…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• 21st century
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

Similar categories in Christine Lai's Landscapes book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• contemporary
• literary fiction
• fiction
• british literature

Similar categories in Balsam Karam's The Singularity book and Kate Briggs's The Long Form

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels