21 Best fiction books like All Day Is a Long Time by David Sanchez

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All Day Is a Long Time

By: David Sanchez

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and ultimately redemptive debut …

If you liked the fiction plot in All Day Is a Long Time by David Sanchez , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Problems

By: Jade Sharma

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Dark, raw, and very funny, Problems introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time t… read more

Similar categories in Jade Sharma's Problems book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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2. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child: Stories book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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5. 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

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. I Wished

By: Dennis Cooper

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's I Wished book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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8. American Spirits

By: Russell Banks

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more

Similar categories in Russell Banks's American Spirits book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Holler, Child: Stories

By: LaToya Watkins

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Holler, Child: Stories book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

Similar categories in Teddy Wayne's The Winner book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Hearing Test

By: Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Barry Callahan's The Hearing Test book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

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13. Early Sobrieties

By: Michael Deagler

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Don’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the wo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Deagler's Early Sobrieties book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All Day Is a Long Time by David  Sanchez

14. All Day Is a Long Time

By: David Sanchez

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and ultimately redemptive debut … read more

Similar categories in David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • coming of age
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

By: K. Iver

4.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more

Similar categories in K. Iver's Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • fiction
Cover of The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

16. The Birdcatcher

By: Gayl Jones

3.04

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile… read more

Similar categories in Gayl Jones's The Birdcatcher book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mental health
"You cannot grow without growing inside."

-Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher

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17. Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories

By: David Means

3.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" (The Observer). David … read more

Similar categories in David Means's Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of The Book of Wanderers (Camino del Sol) by Reyes Ramirez

20. The Book of Wanderers (Camino del Sol)

By: Reyes Ramirez

4.00

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

What do a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant w… read more

Similar categories in Reyes Ramirez's The Book of Wanderers (Camino del Sol) book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • fiction
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21. FUMES

By: William Dozier

3.30

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlie Whitler--sober for the first time in his adult life--returns to Durham County, North Caroli… read more

Similar categories in William Dozier's FUMES book and David Sanchez's All Day Is a Long Time

  • fiction

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