Read-alikes and related books

Books like Natives and Exotics

Readers who finished Natives and Exotics by Jane Alison and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Feminist, Collections & Anthologies, Women Authors, and Sagas.

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Top related books to Natives and Exotics

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Natives and Exotics.

America Was Hard to Find A Novel

Kathleen Alcott

Themes: Women Authors • Sagas • Short Stories (single author)

The School of Mirrors A Novel

Eva Stachniak

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

The Alaskan Laundry

Brendan Jones

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

Black Flower

Young-ha Kim

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

Eating Mammals Three Novellas

John Barlow

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

After Lucy A Novel

Daniel Jones

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Sagas

Silence in October

Jens Christian Grondahl

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Short Stories (single author)

Drives Like a Dream

Porter Shreve

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Short Stories (single author)

The Seven Sisters

Margaret Drabble

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Short Stories (single author)

#10

You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down

Alice Walker

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

#11

The Company She Keeps

Mary McCarthy

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

#12

The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert 21 Stories and Novellas

Ward Just

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

#13

Long for This World A Novel

Michael Byers

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

#14

Things I Want My Daughters to Know A Novel

Elizabeth Noble

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Siblings

#15

The Darling

Russell Banks

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Short Stories (single author)

#16

Heir to the Glimmering World

Cynthia Ozick

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Short Stories (single author)

#17

Bradbury Speaks Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars

Ray Bradbury

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

#18

Dear Husband, Stories

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Feminist • Women Authors • Short Stories (single author)

#19

Sudden Traveler Stories

Sarah Hall

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Short Stories (single author)

#20

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Women Authors • Sagas • Siblings

#21

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

#22

The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

#23

Flight A Novel

Lynn Steger Strong

Themes: Women Authors • Sagas • Siblings

#24

Words are My Matter Writings on Life and Books

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Feminist • Collections & Anthologies • Women Authors

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Feminist, Collections & Anthologies, Women Authors — the same threads that run through Natives and Exotics by Jane Alison. Among the authors featured: Kathleen Alcott, Eva Stachniak, Brendan Jones, Young-ha Kim, and others.