9 Top literary fiction books like Cherry by Nico Walker

Cover of Cherry by Nico Walker

Cherry

By: Nico Walker

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a pas…

"He said, “You look mentally ill."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"He said, “You look mentally ill."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"He said, “You look mentally ill."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Cherry by Nico Walker , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

1. The Devil All the Time

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.13

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters f… read more

Similar categories in Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil All the Time book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Some people were born just so they could be buried."

-Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

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2. Hill William

By: Scott McClanahan

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel som… read more

Similar categories in Scott McClanahan's Hill William book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"I couldn't believe it. Something wasn't right. I thought, "Batman smokes cigarettes." I couldn't believe it. "Batman smokes fucking cigarettes." I walked away and saw that Batman was just this stupid…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

"I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it throug…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

"That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to the tree company tearing away the woods and the timber. I heard the chain…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

Cover of The Acid House by Irvine Welsh

3. The Acid House

By: Irvine Welsh

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Description from the inside sleeve: This scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous colle… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan

4. The Sarah Book

By: Scott McClanahan

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the ch… read more

Similar categories in Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more

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6. Homesick for Another World

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.62

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Otte… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"It's a lonely life."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Nothing made me happy."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Be careful with women,"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

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7. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

By: Peter Englund , Peter Graves

4.17

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, b… read more

Similar categories in Peter Englund's The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • war
"Війна — гарне видовище з точки зору генералів, журналістів та вчених."

-Peter Englund, The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

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8. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • war
Cover of Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Dale A. Jenkins

9. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

Similar categories in Dale A. Jenkins's Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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10. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

Similar categories in K.G.E. Konkel's Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • novels
  • contemporary
"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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11. Lapvona

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.53

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Cover of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

12. My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.63

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What next? I couldn't imagine."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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13. Four Stars: A Life, Reviewed

By: Joel Golby

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier than Joe… read more

Similar categories in Joel Golby's Four Stars: A Life, Reviewed book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • audiobook
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14. Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox

4.40

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fox's Down the Drain book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

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15. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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16. 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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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Body High

By: Jon Lindsey

4.20

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Squirting across the sunburned landscape of Southern California, Body High is a journey marked by m… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Cherry by Nico Walker

18. Cherry

By: Nico Walker

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a pas… read more

Similar categories in Nico Walker's Cherry book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • war
  • adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He said, “You look mentally ill."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"He said, "You look mentally ill" I said "I am, Let's go"

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Emily’s gone to take a shower. The room’s half-dark and I’m getting dressed, looking for a shirt with no blood on it, not having any luck."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

Cover of The Skunks by Fiona Warnick

19. The Skunks

By: Fiona Warnick

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Warnick's The Skunks book and Nico Walker's Cherry

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Easy Meat by Rachel Trezise

20. Easy Meat

By: Rachel Trezise

3.93

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

The south Wales Valleys, 23rd June, 2016. It’s another long day chopping beef carcasses up at the s… read more

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21. Porn Carnival

By: Rachel Rabbit White

3.98

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

In Porn Carnival, the debut full-length collection by Rachel Rabbit White, hedonism and materialist… read more

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