Adventures in Autofiction
Books that blend the author's reality with fiction on the page. (Created July 2025)
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Homeland Elegies
Akhtar reckons with the promises and deceptions of the American dream in this wrenching work of autofiction. (Publishers Weekly)
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Spent
In this self-deprecating and delightful graphic novel from Eisner winner Bechdel, an archly fictionalized Alison finds herself flummoxed by commercial success. (Publishers Weekly)
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A Minor Chorus
Belcourt crafts a debut novel about a queer Indigenous doctoral student in Northern Alberta who temporarily deserts his dissertation to write a novel. (Library Journal)
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Checkout 19
Bennett’s kaleidoscopically imaginative, word-enthralled, working-class English narrator reenters the consciousness of her younger selves and tracks how books, reading, and writing shaped each phase of her life, her syntax, vocabulary, and tone evolving as she matures. (Booklist)
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The Hearing Test
In this quietly electrifying debut, a young composer who makes her living scoring short films loses her hearing over the course of a year and contends with making new sense of her life and the world. (Booklist)
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What We Lose
Raised in America, the multiracial daughter of a mother from Johannesburg struggles with her mother's terminal cancer and her own need to find love and a place to belong, quests shaped by losses, changes in her sense of identity and unexpected motherhood. (NoveList)
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Tremor
Cole’s first novel in 12 years provides a master class in the morality of art as an Ivy League professor revisits his Nigerian homeland and confronts his doubleness. (Kirkus)
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The Beggar Student
A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he meets a high-school dropout and the two get into an intellectual spat. (NoveList)
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The Shards
In this quasi-autobiographical novel, set in 1981 Los Angeles, Bret is a senior at the elite Buckley prep school and fascinated with a new student who has arrived like a lightning bolt even as Bret's wider group of friends focus unhealthily on a serial killer called the Trawler who suddenly seems to be circling them. (Library Journal)
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write? (NoveList)
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