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by Junot Diaz · about this book

Loved This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz? If its short stories, infidelity and literary fiction hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with This Is Where I Leave You, Pachinko and Cutting for Stone. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside This Is How You Lose Her: Short Stories · Infidelity · Literary Fiction · Emotional · Character-Driven

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   This Is Where I Leave You

   Jonathan Tropper

   Infidelity · Brothers · Bittersweet · Character-Driven · Contemporary Fiction

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Immigration · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet

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   Cutting for Stone

   Abraham Verghese

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Brothers

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   The Kite Runner

   Khaled Hosseini

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Emotional

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   Interior Chinatown

   Charles Yu

   Immigration · Cultural Identity · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction

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   On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

   Ocean Vuong

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   Sabrina & Corina

   Kali Fajardo-Anstine

   Short Stories · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   Black Cake

   Charmaine Wilkerson

   Cultural Identity · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet

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   Middlesex

   Jeffrey Eugenides

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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    Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Emotional

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    High Fidelity

    Nick Hornby

    First Heartbreak · Character-Driven · Contemporary Fiction · First Person Narrator · Male Lead

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    The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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    All the Lonely People

    Mike Gayle

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Bittersweet · Contemporary Fiction · Emotional

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    Women

    Charles Bukowski

    Infidelity · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator · Anti-Hero

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    The Bee Sting

    Paul Murray

    Character-Driven · Brothers · Literary Fiction · Infidelity · Contemporary Fiction

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    Nowhere Boy

    Katherine Marsh

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Contemporary Fiction · Male Lead · Emotional

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    Uncommon Type: Some Stories

    Tom Hanks

    Short Stories · Contemporary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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18. 

    The Outsiders

    S.E. Hinton

    Bittersweet · Emotional · Brothers · Character-Driven · Male Lead

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    The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

    James McBride

    Immigration · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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    Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    R.F. Kuang

    Cultural Identity · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Male Lead · Character-Driven

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