8 must-read novels books like Year of the Buffalo by Aaron Burch

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Year of the Buffalo

By: Aaron Burch

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ernie and his brother, Scott, have never seen eye-to-eye—literally or figuratively. Scott’s a mount…

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1. Dogwalker

By: Arthur Bradford

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and th… read more

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2. The Coast of Chicago: Stories

By: Stuart Dybek

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic… read more

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"Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I’d ever had the feeling of mis…"

-Stuart Dybek, The Coast of Chicago: Stories

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3. The Mezzanine

By: Nicholson Baker

4.35

Format: None pages,

Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more

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4. Knockemstiff

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr… read more

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5. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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6. Cult of Loretta

By: Kevin Maloney

4.08

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

"Kevin Maloney alchemizes the allure of dicey friendships, hallucinatory sex and a drug so terrifyi… read more

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7. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

By: Denis Johnson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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8. Cathedral

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more

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9. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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10. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

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"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

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11. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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12. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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13. The Survivalists

By: Kashana Cauley

2.94

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her co… read more

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14. Teenager

By: Bud Smith

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more

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15. Bad Foundations

By: Brian Allen Carr

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life … read more

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16. Duplex

By: Mike Nagel

4.60

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he's hungover. There's a squirrel in the… read more

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17. Birds Aren't Real

By: D.T. Robbins

4.58

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Meeting minutes from a Satanic cult. Werewolves with orgasmic origins. Homemade puzzles made from h… read more

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18. Culdesac

By: Mike Nagel

4.93

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Mike Nagel has no idea what’s going on around here. Fresh out of the duplex, he and J have rented a… read more

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19. Year of the Buffalo

By: Aaron Burch

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ernie and his brother, Scott, have never seen eye-to-eye—literally or figuratively. Scott’s a mount… read more

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20. The Red-Headed Pilgrim

By: Kevin Maloney

3.83

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Provocative, poignant, and resoundingly hilarious, The Red-Headed Pilgrim is the tragicomic tale of… read more

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21. Salmon

By: Sebastian Castillo

4.38

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A young poet travels to a mysterious country named SALMON to escape “the dailiness of life” but his… read more

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22. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

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23. The Burden Of Joy

By: Lexi Kent-Monning

4.71

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Lexi Kent-Monning's debut novel, The Burden of Joy, is an incessant dagger to the heart. After Lexi… read more

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24. Opioid, Indiana

By: Brian Allen Carr

3.34

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

During a week-long suspension from school, a teenage transplant to impoverished rural Indiana searc… read more

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25. Home Movies

By: Michael Wheaton

4.85

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediate… read more

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26. Liver Mush

By: Graham Irvin

4.71

Format: None pages, None

Liver Mush is a book about liver mush. Liver mush is a pork liver and cornmeal based food eaten mos… read more

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27. Scumbag Summer: A Novel

By: Jillian Luft

4.72

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 2003 and an idealistic yet unambitious Florida college grad moves to Orlando—the… read more

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28. You Are the Snake: Stories

By: Juliet Escoria

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the celebrated author of Juliet the Maniac comes a collection of previously unpublished storie… read more

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29. Your Favorite Poet

By: Leigh Chadwick

4.78

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The poems in this collection are about being alive and wanting to stay alive. They are poems teeter… read more

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30. Leasing

By: D.T. Robbins

4.87

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

David, like every other rock-bottom soul, runs out of options and ends up working at Victoria Lawn—… read more

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31. How to Keep Time

By: Kevin M. Kearney

4.64

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Every day, Mercer Moore was reminded that it was all ending. It was The End of Television, of C… read more

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13 must-read fiction books like Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

Transform Your Habits

Trout Fishing in America

Richard Brautigan

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Fat City

Leonard Gardner

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Ray

Barry Hannah

3.87

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