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Books like You Think It, I'll Say It

Curtis Sittenfeld · 2018 · US · literary fiction
★ 3.64 Goodreads · 45,669 ratings

Ten stories of women and men misjudging one another: a book club, a celebrity, an old school rival, a couple playing a secret game about the people they meet.

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The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever · 1978 · US 97% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 16,047 ratings
shares: ironic, short stories, class, marriage · intimate, ironic

Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.

Come and Get It

Kiley Reid · 2024 · US 96% match ★ 3.32 Goodreads · 48,275 ratings
shares: observational, class, satirical, satire · intimate, easy read

At the University of Arkansas in 2017, Millie Cousins, a senior and resident assistant saving to buy a house, accepts an offer from Agatha Paul, a visiting professor writing about young people and money, and lets her interview the girls in her dorm.

Colored Television

Danzy Senna · 2024 · US 96% match ★ 3.52 Goodreads · 27,581 ratings
shares: ironic, class, marriage, satire · ironic, intimate

Jane, a mixed-race novelist in Los Angeles, has spent ten years on a serious book about mixed-race America, and broke and house-sitting for a famous friend, she decides to try selling a television show instead.

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis · 1920 · US 96% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 27,298 ratings
shares: ironic, class, marriage, satire · intimate, easy read

Carol Milford, a young, idealistic librarian from St Paul, marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to bring culture and reform to its one dusty Main Street.

Birds of America

Lorrie Moore · 1998 · US 95% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 17,022 ratings
shares: short stories, marriage, witty · intimate, easy read

Twelve stories about lonely, funny people pushed to the edge, including a mother whose baby is diagnosed with cancer and a woman grieving her cat while her marriage frays.

Tara Road

Maeve Binchy · 1998 · Ireland 95% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 84,048 ratings
shares: marriage, friendship, female perspective · easy read, intimate

When her husband leaves her, Ria Lynch, who has always lived for her family and her house on Tara Road in Dublin, agrees to swap homes for the summer with Marilyn Vine, an American stranger mourning her son in Connecticut.

Tenth of December

George Saunders · 2013 · US 95% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 85,023 ratings
shares: short stories, satirical, satire · intimate, easy read

Ten stories that veer between absurd comedy and great tenderness, from a boy's rescue attempt on a frozen pond to a medieval theme park and a family that buys living women as lawn ornaments, all about trying to be decent in broken systems.

Generation X

Douglas Coupland · 1991 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 30,710 ratings
shares: ironic, friendship, satirical, satire · ironic, intimate

Andy, Dag and Claire, three twentysomethings who have walked out of their careers, work dead-end jobs in Palm Springs and tell each other stories to make sense of a world that seems to have no place for them.

Self-Help

Lorrie Moore · 1985 · US 94% match ★ 4.11 Goodreads · 16,348 ratings
shares: short stories, marriage, witty · intimate, easy read

Moore's first book, mostly stories told as second-person how-to guides, on how to be an other woman, how to become a writer and how to talk to your mother.

Liberation Day

George Saunders · 2022 · US 94% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 17,070 ratings
shares: short stories, class, satirical, satire · intimate, funny

Nine stories set in an America where inequality and surveillance have hardened into something almost feudal, and small acts of conscience become radical.

The Beggar Maid

Alice Munro · 1978 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 7,586 ratings
shares: class, marriage, female perspective · intimate, easy read

Linked stories of Rose, from a poor childhood in Hanratty, Ontario, with her stepmother Flo, to marriage to a rich young man and a career on television.

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh · 1934 · UK 94% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 29,980 ratings
shares: ironic, marriage, satirical, satire · ironic, intimate

A contented English squire devoted to his Gothic country house loses his wife to an idle young social climber, and his life comes apart all the way to the Amazon.