8 must-read novels books like Night Train by Martin Amis

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Night Train

By: Martin Amis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walki…

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Cover of Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass

1. Omensetter's Luck

By: William H. Gass

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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2. Night Train

By: Martin Amis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walki… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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3. The Anatomy Lesson

By: Philip Roth

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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4. Zuckerman Unbound

By: Philip Roth

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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5. The Humbling

By: Philip Roth

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. Metroland

By: Julian Barnes

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrotcould give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. The Zebra-Striped Hearse

By: Ross Macdonald

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-t… read more

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8. Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

By: Stefan Zweig , Anthea Bell

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other storiescontains a new translation by the aw… read more

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9. Pedigree: A Memoir

By: Patrick Modiano , None

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Paris, Octobre 1942. Un homme et une femme se rencontrent lors de l'occupation de la ville. Lui un … read more

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10. Whores for Gloria

By: William T. Vollmann

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and Fathers and Crowscomes this fe… read more

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11. 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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12. Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation, and she is fearless when … read more

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13. The Men's Club

By: Leonard Michaels

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. Ravelstein

By: Saul Bellow

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories … read more

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15. Como bestias

By: Violaine Bérot

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Un pueblo aislado en las montañas; un joven de fuerza sobrehumana con un don para sanar a los anima… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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17. 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
"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

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18. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

19. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

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20. Los guapos

By: Esther García Llovet

3.08

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

En los arrozales frente a un camping de El Saler aparecen unos misteriosos círculos. Es lo que los … read more

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21. La prigione

By: Georges Simenon

3.55

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

«Quanti mesi, quanti anni ci vogliono perché un bambino diventi un ragazzo, e un ragazzo un uomo?».… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction

11 Top fiction books like Night Train by Martin Amis

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3.46

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