16 Top fiction books like Late City by Robert Olen Butler

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Late City

By: Robert Olen Butler

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A visionary and poignant novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to…

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1. Arthur & George

By: Julian Barnes

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Sag Harbor

By: Colson Whitehead

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook

3. Beneath the Earth

By: John Boyne

4.12

Format: 80 pages, ebook

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the e… read more

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4. Trajectory

By: Richard Russo

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates th… read more

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5. The Lady Vanishes

By: Ethel Lina White

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more

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6. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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7. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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10. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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11. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. Lost Man's Lane

By: Scott Carson

4.28

Format: 516 pages, Hardcover

A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding supernatural thril… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. An Island

By: Karen Jennings

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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14. An Early Grave (DI Tara Grogan, #1)

By: Robert McCracken

4.09

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

During the investigation into the death of a woman on a Liverpool housing estate, DI Tara Grogan en… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of February's Son (Harry McCoy, #2) by Alan  Parks

15. February's Son (Harry McCoy, #2)

By: Alan Parks

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Bodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Midnight News

By: Jo Baker

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman’s unraveling during … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Half Life of Valery K

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."

-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K

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18. Late City

By: Robert Olen Butler

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A visionary and poignant novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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19. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. The Hidden Book

By: Kirsty Manning

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily comes a compelling novel based on a true story of a WW… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Beasts of Paris

By: Stef Penney

3.75

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Enter the world of Haussmann's newly built City of Light: a dazzling, panoramic novel of love and s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

6 best-selling contemporary books like Late City by Robert Olen Butler

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Somebody's Fool

Richard Russo

4.27

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Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

Kate Atkinson

3.71

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Day

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3.13

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Anne Enright

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