11 must-read contemporary books like The Last Taxi Driver by Lee Durkee

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The Last Taxi Driver

By: Lee Durkee

3.68

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A Kirkus Best Book of 2020 “A wild, funny, poetic fever dream that will change the way you think ab…

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Cover of A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene, Giles Foden

1. A Burnt-Out Case

By: Graham Greene , Giles Foden

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Gra… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"The more bare a life is, the more we fear change."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite. We become aware of ourselves, the more uncomfortable we are"

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

"He looked around the church, at the altar, the tabernacle, the brass candles, and the European saints, pale like albinos in the dark continent."

-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

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2. The Honours

By: Tim Clare

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

TRUE HONOUR IS ENDLESS. JOIN US. 1935. Norfolk. War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling c… read more

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  • fiction
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3. And the Birds Rained Down

By: Rhonda Mullins , Jocelyne Saucier

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection! Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for Fren… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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4. Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia

By: Edward Humes

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Biloxi, Mississippi, is a city of contradictions. A lush green jewel on the Gulf of Mexico, a South… read more

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  • southern
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5. Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music

By: Blair Tindall

4.22

Format: 72 pages,

"In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Gelsey Kirkland's Dancing on My Gr… read more

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6. Sleeping Beauty

By: Ross Macdonald

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load… read more

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7. Every Man a Menace

By: Patrick Hoffman

3.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Patrick Hoffman burst onto the crime fiction scene with The White Van, a bank heist thriller set in… read more

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8. The Hamlet

By: William Faulkner

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical trage… read more

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9. Seconds

By: David Ely

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

read more

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10. The Tie That Binds

By: Kent Haruf

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the bac… read more

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11. Crooked Seeds

By: Karen Jennings

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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12. Madama Matrioska

By: Anja Boato

3.94

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Ogni evento ha una causa che lo precede. Che ha a sua volta una causa, che ne ha un'altra ancora, e… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Baba

By: Mohamed Maalel

4.32

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Ahmed nasce in una famiglia in cui le lingue e le ricette si riso patate e cozze e taralli convivo… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Invernale

By: Dario Voltolini

3.48

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Il padre spacca gli animali, entra nelle loro viscere, separa i muscoli dalle membrane, estirpa gli… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Hex

By: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

3.26

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between po… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Okay,"

-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex

"I am not in love with you, Nell Barber,"

-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex

"I will never blame Barry for falling in love with you but I will blame him for considering himself eligible."

-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex

"It’s always been such a lukewarm encouragement between us—you are essential to me and I am okay to you—but lukewarm is about as hot as I get."

-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex

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16. Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me

By: Michela Murgia

4.30

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

La viva voce dell'intellettuale più lucida e appassionata del nostro tempo torna a visitarci per un… read more

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"La fuga salva. La fuga non è mancanza di coraggio. La fuga a volte è l'unico modo che hai di essere viva."

-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me

"Si dice che quando ti morde il lupo te lo aspetti, ma i guai cominciano davvero quando ti morde la pecora."

-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me

"Nelle relazioni si litiga sempre per restare. Quando te ne vuoi andare non litighi. Non spieghi, non perdi tempo. Te ne vai. Litigare è un segno di salute."

-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me

"Mi auguro che la Chiesa si apra in futuro in maniera più deliberata. Non si possono fare cose che riguardano il genere umano tagliando fuori metà del genere umano."

-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me

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17. The Last Taxi Driver

By: Lee Durkee

3.68

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A Kirkus Best Book of 2020 “A wild, funny, poetic fever dream that will change the way you think ab… read more

Similar categories in Lee Durkee's The Last Taxi Driver book and Lee Durkee's The Last Taxi Driver

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • americana
  • the united states of america
  • humor
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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18. The Night Always Comes

By: Willy Vlautin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • the united states of america
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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19. No Secrets

By: David Jackson

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY ALL BELIEVE HIM THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert.… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance

20. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

By: Gregory J. Wallance

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more

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21. Gli iperborei

By: Pietro Castellitto

2.80

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Sono stati il leone, la balena, il cerbiatto, protagonisti di una recita di fine anno nella quale i… read more

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22. Billy Rags

By: Ted Lewis

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape from prison brings trouble in the form of… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of It Could Never Happen Here by Eithne Shortall

23. It Could Never Happen Here

By: Eithne Shortall

3.80

Format: None pages, None

Their school is about to be taught a lesson... Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to pr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Habitations

By: Sheila Sundar

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green car… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Users

By: Colin Winnette

2.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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26. One Split Second

By: Caroline Bond

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The final goodbye is the hardest... When a car carrying five teenagers home from a party crashes… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Let’s Pretend

By: Laura Vaughan

3.36

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find... Former child star Lily Thane is now … read more

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  • contemporary
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28. You Had It Coming

By: B.M. Carroll

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WOULD YOU SAVE THE MAN WHO DESTROYED YOUR LIFE? When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scen… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Ruthie Fear

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.74

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

In Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

30. Don't Let the Devil Ride

By: Ace Atkins

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more

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  • southern
  • adult
  • fiction
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31. The Bones of Barry Knight

By: Emma Musty

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In a remote refugee camp many diverse lives collide. A child with a love of wizards and an ageing … read more

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  • novels

19 must-read fiction books like The Last Taxi Driver by Lee Durkee

Transform Your Habits

A Burnt-Out Case

Graham Greene , Giles Foden

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Honours

Tim Clare

3.75

Transform Your Habits

And the Birds Rained Down

Rhonda Mullins , Jocelyne Saucier

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Crooked Seeds

Karen Jennings

3.53

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14 Best fiction books like It Could Never Happen Here by Eithne Shortall

Transform Your Habits

Run Time

Catherine Ryan Howard

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Idol

Louise O'Neill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

Marian Keyes

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Breakdown

Cathy Sweeney

3.81

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