10 best-selling literary fiction books like Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

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Imagine Me Gone

By: Adam Haslett

3.69

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family fa…

"How narrowly we all avoid having never been."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"How narrowly we all avoid having never been."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Orphan Master's Son

By: Adam Johnson

4.07

Format: 443 pages, Hardcover

Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influentia… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch."

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

"Citizens, gather 'round your loudspeakers, for we bring important updates!"

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

"Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past."

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

"In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her."

-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

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2. The Kept Man

By: Jami Attenberg

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Now in paperback, from the author of the bestselling The Middlesteins: the novel that's "unabashedl… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Good Brother: A Novel

By: Chris Offutt

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-rai… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Timesbestselling… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. While You Were Mine

By: Ann Howard Creel

3.86

Format: None pages,

Everything she loved could so easily be lost. The end of World War II should have brought joy to Gw… read more

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6. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

By: Oscar Hijuelos

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

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7. The Sport of Kings

By: C.E. Morgan

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Hellsmouth, a wilful thoroughbred filly, has the legacy of a family riding on her. The Forges: one … read more

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8. Let Me Be Frank With You

By: Richard Ford

3.75

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation… read more

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9. LaRose

By: Louise Erdrich

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more

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10. Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

By: Ron Rash

3.87

Format: 334 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Serenaand The Cove, thirty-four of his fines… read more

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11. Hotels of North America

By: Rick Moody

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes to life in the most unexp… read more

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12. Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength

By: Liz Pryor

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A vivid portrait of a secret teenage pregnancy, in 1979, that would change the author's life foreve… read more

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13. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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14. Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell

3.27

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"the gravity of wound to fist"

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

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15. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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17. Monkey Boy

By: Francisco Goldman

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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18. Telephone

By: Percival Everett

3.98

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow ar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Imagine Me Gone

By: Adam Haslett

3.69

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family fa… read more

Similar categories in Adam Haslett's Imagine Me Gone book and Adam Haslett's Imagine Me Gone

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How narrowly we all avoid having never been."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"Imagine me gone, imagine it’s just the two of you. What do you do?"

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

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20. My Beloved Life

By: Amitava Kumar

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life from his 1935 birth in a small vi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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21. Palmares

By: Gayl Jones

2.92

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great lit… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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The Kept Man

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4.00

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4.12

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4.03

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