Books like The Husbands
12 books with a reading profile close to The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
romance, narrative
Greta lives in a drafty, unheated farmhouse in Hudson, New York, where she works as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist.
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2
Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
romance, narrative
The narrative follows K, a primary school teacher, who maintains a quiet devotion to his best friend, Sumire.
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3
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
romance, narrative
Wavy Quinn is the daughter of a meth dealer growing up in a chaotic, neglectful household in rural Kansas.
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4
Going Bovine
by Libba Bray
narrative, literary
Sixteen-year-old Cameron Smith lives a listless existence until he is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal condition commonly known as Mad Cow Disease.
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5
The Lover's Dictionary
narrative, literary
This novel constructs the history of a single romantic relationship through a sequence of dictionary entries ordered alphabetically.
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6
The Gargoyle
romance, narrative
A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
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7
This Is How You Lose the Time War
romance, literary
Red and Blue are elite operatives serving two diametrically opposed empires—the technocratic Agency and the organic Garden—who fight to secure their respective futures across the threads of time.
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8
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
romance, narrative
Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.
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9
Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
narrative, literary
Twelve-year-old Noah Gardner, known as Bird, lives in a future America governed by PACT: the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act.
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10
Travesuras de la niña mala
romance, narrative
Ricardo, a Peruvian translator who lives in Paris, first falls for Lily, a Chilean girl in Lima in the 1950s.
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11
Evenings and Weekends
romance, narrative
Set during a sweltering weekend in London, the narrative follows a group of interconnected friends navigating the precariousness of the modern city.
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12
Open Throat
by Henry Hoke
narrative, literary
An unnamed mountain lion lives in the brush beneath the Hollywood sign, observing the human hikers and homeless residents of Los Angeles.
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