9 Top novels books like The Horse by Willy Vlautin

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The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won …

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1. 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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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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4. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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5. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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6. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of American Spirits by Russell Banks

7. American Spirits

By: Russell Banks

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Horse by Willy Vlautin

8. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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  • music
  • literature
  • realistic fiction
  • musicians
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horses
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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12. Familiaris

By: David Wroblewski

4.21

Format: 979 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more

Similar categories in David Wroblewski's Familiaris book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

13. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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14. Ghost Mountain

By: Ronan Hession

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Mountain is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly and the way in w… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

15. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Old King

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this novel about the end of the frontier dream, a logger builds a cabin near a recluse named Ted… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

18. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • literature
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Joe Hustle

By: Richard Lange

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woma… read more

Similar categories in Richard Lange's Joe Hustle book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • fiction
Cover of Devil Is Fine by John Vercher

21. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

Cover of Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

22. Off the Books

By: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Going karura mean ride service off the books."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"On the Fourth, he’d been cowardly. And this time he hadn’t missed."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"Was the decline of journalistic ethics an inevitable result of capitalism?"

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"She would hate it, but she’s saving her hate for the Three I’s. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

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23. Holy City

By: Henry Wise

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of smal… read more

Similar categories in Henry Wise's Holy City book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

24. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian by Amy Attas

25. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

Similar categories in Amy Attas's Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • audiobook
Cover of Beautiful Days: Stories by Zach  Williams

26. Beautiful Days: Stories

By: Zach Williams

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a stagg… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

27. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Echoes by Evie Wyld

28. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu

29. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

30. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Burn by Peter Heller

31. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Willy Vlautin's The Horse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Karen Jennings

3.53

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4.54

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Colin Barrett

3.78

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The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

4.02

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Amor Towles

4.26

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Adelle Waldman

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