6 Best contemporary books like Sun House by David James Duncan

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Sun House

By: David James Duncan

3.86

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent …

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Cover of My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman

1. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

By: Christian Wiman

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetrymagazine, wrote a now-f… read more

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  • spirituality
Cover of The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

2. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

3. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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4. 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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5. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

Cover of North Woods by Daniel       Mason

6. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

9. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Table for Two by Amor Towles

10. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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11. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. Brooklyn Crime Novel

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

13. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

Cover of The Morningside by Téa Obreht

14. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

15. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

Cover of Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes

16. Cold Victory

By: Karl Marlantes

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in whic… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

17. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman

18. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

By: Christian Wiman

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more

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  • philosophy
  • spirituality
Cover of Sun House by David James Duncan

19. Sun House

By: David James Duncan

3.86

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • spirituality
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain

20. Devil Makes Three

By: Ben Fountain

3.81

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America by Betsy Gaines Quammen

21. True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America

By: Betsy Gaines Quammen

4.18

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

“ True West disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique." —HAMPTON SIDES, New York Tim… read more

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17 best-selling fiction books like Sun House by David James Duncan

Transform Your Habits

The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Maniac

Benjamín Labatut

4.34

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20 Best fiction books like Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Transform Your Habits

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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