18 must-read literary fiction books like How We Disappear: Novella & Stories by Tara Lynn Masih

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How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

By: Tara Lynn Masih

4.37

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

2022 Florida Book Award Winner In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers …

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Cover of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's by Frederick Lewis Allen

1. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“A style that is verve itself.” — New York Times “A perfectly grand piece of historical record a… read more

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Cover of I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay

2. I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern L… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson

3. More of This World or Maybe Another

By: Barb Johnson

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the backstreets of New Orleans to the rural Gulf Coast--this is the territory Johnson mines so… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

4. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

5. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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6. See What I Have Done

By: Sarah Schmidt

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this riveting debut novel, See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinati… read more

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Cover of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

7. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

Cover of O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

8. O Caledonia

By: Elspeth Barker

3.98

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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10. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Tara Lynn Masih's How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich

11. Kinfolk

By: Sean Dietrich

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alaba… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But then, life was full of overlooked miracles. And miracles never happened the way you expect them to. They are softer than a baby's breath. They are, at times, as noticeable as a ladybug. A miracle…"

-Sean Dietrich, Kinfolk

Cover of The Coast Road by Alan Murrin

12. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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

13. 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
  • historical fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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

-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 Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

14. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Cover of A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn

15. A Tiny Upward Shove

By: Melissa Chadburn

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

My grandmother, sitting at her doily-covered table, marmalade on her cheek, explained that the aswa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Whale Day: And Other Poems by Billy Collins

16. Whale Day: And Other Poems

By: Billy Collins

4.08

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more

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"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"

-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems

Cover of Honey by Victor Lodato

17. Honey

By: Victor Lodato

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

18. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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19. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

By: Tara Lynn Masih

4.37

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

2022 Florida Book Award Winner In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers … read more

Similar categories in Tara Lynn Masih's How We Disappear: Novella & Stories book and Tara Lynn Masih's How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

  • literary fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Mission House by Carys Davies

20. The Mission House

By: Carys Davies

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Mission House, Hilary Byrd flees his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am by Zachary Pace

21. I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am

By: Zachary Pace

3.26

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

I Sing to Use the Waiting  is a vital and affecting reflection on how popular culture can shape per… read more

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Cover of When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

22. When the World Tips Over

By: Jandy Nelson

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment The Fall siblings live in h… read more

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  • fiction
"He liked trees more than people."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Why won’t you ever tell me about your parents?"

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Sometimes platonic loves are the most profound."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

"Desiderium, n. an ardent desire for something lost."

-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

Cover of The Bookstore Wedding (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop, #2) by Alice Hoffman

23. The Bookstore Wedding (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop, #2)

By: Alice Hoffman

3.97

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

In this star-crossed short story from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman, timing is ev… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Letting in Air and Light by Teresa Tumminello Brader

24. Letting in Air and Light

By: Teresa Tumminello Brader

4.57

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

From a double shotgun house in New Orleans comes a true story larger than life. Teresa Tumminello B… read more

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"I feel haunted by hidden objects and absent people."

-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

"... I was too young to realize that a physical absence can be felt."

-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

"... through her struggles, Helen must have acquied not only patience, but the serenity that accompanies it when it is real."

-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

"Already my memories seem fraudulent, yet they are true to the child I was. Memory is unreliable; it might as well be fiction."

-Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

Cover of The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna  Johnston

25. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Tara Lynn Masih's How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

26. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Tara Lynn Masih's How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Half-Life of a Stolen Sister by Rachel Cantor

27. Half-Life of a Stolen Sister

By: Rachel Cantor

3.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A form-shattering novel that reimagines the lives of the Brontë siblings from precocious childhood,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari

28. Songs for the Brokenhearted

By: Ayelet Tsabari

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better li… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Singularity by Balsam Karam

29. The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others by Percival Everett

30. Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others

By: Percival Everett

3.82

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to differen… read more

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31. Buzz Books 2018: Spring/Summer: Exclusive excerpts from forthcoming titles by Patrick DeWitt, Sheila Heti, Kristan Higgins, Ottessa Moshfegh Allison Pearson and 35 more

By: Publishers Lunch

4.33

Format: 742 pages, Kindle Edition

Our biannual Buzz Books captures all the excitement of the American Booksellers Association’s Winte… read more

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  • fiction

24 Top fiction books like How We Disappear: Novella & Stories by Tara Lynn Masih

Transform Your Habits

I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

William Gay

3.64

Transform Your Habits

More of This World or Maybe Another

Barb Johnson

4.62

Transform Your Habits

The Unknown Masterpiece

Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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20 best-selling fiction books like Buzz Books 2018: Spring/Summer: Exclusive excerpts from forthcoming titles by Patrick DeWitt, Sheila Heti, Kristan Higgins, Ottessa Moshfegh Allison Pearson and 35 more by Publishers Lunch

Transform Your Habits

Faithful Are The Wounds

May Sarton

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Women

S.E. Lynes

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Child's Play (DI Kim Stone #11)

Angela Marsons

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Bitter Edge (DI Kelly Porter, #4)

Rachel Lynch

4.39

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