Books like Springer's progress by David Markson

Infinite J Explores how entertainment shapes human life, set in an addict’s halfway house and a tennis academy, with a deeply flawed family navigating happiness in modern America.

180 p. ; 21 cm.1010L Lexile

An introspective novel where a young writer confronts a life‑threatening heart condition, unexpected literary acclaim, and the possibility of unconventional fatherhood amid a New York on the brink of change.

A philosophical novel about art forgery, following Wyatt Gwyon whose obsession with 17th-century Flemish masterpieces leads him to create astonishingly authentic forgeries.

Kate, a successful magazine writer in her mid-30s, struggles to find love in modern times, while also trying to keep her family's Scottish estate from foreclosure.

An aging New Yorker discovers forbidden desires and a dark dimension in his life through an unexpected encounter.

Adele Waldman’s contemporary romance follows a modern man who sees beyond superficial judgment yet wrestles with status anxiety and a tendency to disappoint the women he loves.

Two sisters, raised apart in Manhattan, discover a shocking family secret when they both fall in love with the same man.

In The Last Novel, David Markson’s elderly narrator turns his final work into a sweeping meditation on absent personal history, weaving the lives and deaths of artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and sports figures into an incantatory portrait of his own fading existence.

In "Ask the Dust", John Fante’s Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in 1930s Los Angeles, forms a precarious love‑hate bond with waitress Camilla Lopez while grappling with ambition, poverty and the quest for identity.

It is 1920. Twenty-two year old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a suffragette who was injured in battles with the police in 1910, is a feisty and well-connected lady. Poppy has always dreamed of being a journalist, and quickly lands a position as an editorial assistant at the Daily Globe. Then one of the paper's hacks, Bert Isaacs, dies suddenly and messily. Poppy and photographer Daniel Rokeby (with whom Poppy has an immediate and mutual attraction) begin to wonder if Bert was pushed. His story was going to be the morning lead, but he hasn't finished writing it. Poppy finds his notes and completes the story, which is a sensation. The Globe's editor, realising her valuable suffragette contacts, invites her to dig deeper. Poppy starts sifting through the dead man's files and unearths a major mystery which takes her to France--and abruptly into danger.