Adventures in Autofiction
Books that blend the author's reality with fiction on the page. (Created July 2025)
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Death of the Author
A paraplegic Nigerian American writer finds her life turning into a rollercoaster ride. (Kirkus)
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If You Love It, Let It Kill You
An autofiction about a writer in the throes of a crisis. Hana P., the narrator of Hannah Pittard’s new novel, begins to unravel after learning that her ex-husband is about to publish a novel about their failed marriage and his affair with her best friend. (Kirkus)
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Unspeakable Home
A middle-aged immigrant sorts through his memories of the Bosnian War and his present-day romantic woes in this clever and moving work of autofiction from Prcic. (Publishers Weekly)
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Boy From the North Country
Losing Mom: heartfelt autofiction from a man who just may be Bob Dylan’s son...Come for the riveting father-son mystery, stay for the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory. (Kirkus)
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Black Wave
Churning through lovers, baggies, and bottles, writer Michelle Leduski runs for LA with the end of the world on her heels...A biting, sagacious, and delightfully dark metaliterary novel about finding your way in a world on fire. (Kirkus)
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Wound
Poet Vasyakina explores grief and sexuality in her stirring English-language debut about a 30-year-old lesbian poet named Oksana Vasyakina who makes a lengthy and circuitous trip to bury her mother in late 2010s Russia. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Emperor of Gladness
In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, forging an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory, and resilience on the margins of society. (NoveList)
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I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
In her second novel...Watkins’ angry, grieving, wild-at-heart narrator shares Watkins’ name, home ground, parentage, and literary calling, creating a wily fusion of autobiography and imagination. (Booklist)
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Undiscovered
Peruvian writer Wiener plumbs the depths of her family history while exploring the legacy of colonialism in this incisive work of autofiction. (Publishers Weekly)
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Mourning A Breast
This superb work of autofiction from Xi (1937–2022), which was originally published in 1992, melds an account of the author’s breast cancer with a reflection on the subjective nature of translation. (Publishers Weekly)
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