12 must-read literary fiction books like Cool for America: Stories by Andrew Martin

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Cool for America: Stories

By: Andrew Martin

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin's Cool for A…

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1. How Should a Person Be?

By: Sheila Heti

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Storiesand Ticknorcomes a bold interrogatio… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Wonder Boys

By: Michael Chabon , None

3.95

Format: 302 pages,

In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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4. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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5. Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more

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6. The Intuitionist

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more

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7. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more

Similar categories in Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus book and Andrew Martin's Cool for America: Stories

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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10. Fuccboi

By: Sean Thor Conroe

3.07

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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12. Cool for America: Stories

By: Andrew Martin

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin's Cool for A… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Martin's Cool for America: Stories book and Andrew Martin's Cool for America: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

By: Isaac Fitzgerald

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more

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14. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight book and Andrew Martin's Cool for America: Stories

"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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15. The Guest Lecture

By: Martin Riker

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Mike Nichols: A Life

By: Mark Harris

4.48

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment histor… read more

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17. The Gull Yettin

By: Joe Kessler

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly render… read more

Similar categories in Joe Kessler's The Gull Yettin book and Andrew Martin's Cool for America: Stories

  • fiction
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18. A Shock

By: Keith Ridgway

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new no… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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20. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

Similar categories in Joy Williams's Concerning the Future of Souls book and Andrew Martin's Cool for America: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. 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 Andrew Martin's Cool for America: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

13 Best fiction books like Cool for America: Stories by Andrew Martin

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How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti

4.33

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Wonder Boys

Michael Chabon , None

3.95

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Earth Angel

Madeline Cash

4.05

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The Netanyahus

Joshua Cohen

3.80

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

3.31

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August Blue

Deborah Levy

3.68

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Catherine Lacey

3.85

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