17 Best fiction books like The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken

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The Souvenir Museum

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new…

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1. The Last Interview and Other Conversations

By: David Foster Wallace

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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2. After Henry

By: Joan Didion

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Ange… read more

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3. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You book and Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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4. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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5. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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6. Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories

By: Leigh Newman

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Dail… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Newman's Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories book and Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer

8. The Best American Short Stories 2022

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • relationships
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Best American Short Stories 2023

By: Min Jin Lee

3.77

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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12. Dayswork

By: Chris Bachelder

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Zorrie

By: Laird Hunt

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hun… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You could get whiplash trying to watch time go by."

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

"Still, it was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

"As she began to doze, she wondered if when you rode in airplanes, love, even old impossible love, sent hearts tumbling end over end."

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

"She asked Janie what it was like to have a mother, and Janie leaned over and gave Zorrie a kiss on the top of her head and then turned her around and gave her a quick kick in her seat and told her th…"

-Laird Hunt, Zorrie

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14. Sleepovers: Stories

By: Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

4.15

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Lauren Groff as “fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complica… read more

Similar categories in Ashleigh Bryant Phillips's Sleepovers: Stories book and Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Abundance

By: Jakob Guanzon

3.85

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction A wrenching debut about the causes and effects … read more

Similar categories in Jakob Guanzon's Abundance book and Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Disruptions

By: Steven Millhauser

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culminatio… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken

17. The Souvenir Museum

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum book and Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • relationships
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

Similar categories in Camille Bordas's The Material book and Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Like Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends by Dan Mathews

19. Like Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends

By: Dan Mathews

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Exquisite. Full of wry humor, tenderness, and compassion.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestse… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. They Dream in Gold

By: Mai Sennaar

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A “luminous” (Tara Conklin) literary debut following two dreamers, one intercultural family, and th… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Is One Way to Dance: Essays by Sejal Shah

21. This Is One Way to Dance: Essays

By: Sejal Shah

4.13

Format: 198 pages, ebook

In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explor… read more

Similar categories in Sejal Shah's This Is One Way to Dance: Essays book and Elizabeth McCracken's The Souvenir Museum

  • short stories

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If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

3.31

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Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

Kate Atkinson

3.71

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Leigh Newman

3.79

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Roxana Robinson

3.87

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