20 Top fiction books like A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel Mason

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A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

By: Daniel Mason

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection …

If you liked the fiction plot in A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel Mason , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more

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2. 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

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

Similar categories in Paul Harding's This Other Eden book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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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6. 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 Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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8. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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9. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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10. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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11. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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14. Monkey Boy

By: Francisco Goldman

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more

Similar categories in Francisco Goldman's Monkey Boy book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • 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)

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16. Telephone

By: Percival Everett

3.98

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow ar… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's Telephone book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Hieroglyphics

By: Jill McCorkle

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Jill McCorkle has long been one of our wryest, warmest, wisest storytellers. In Hieroglyphics, she… read more

Similar categories in Jill McCorkle's Hieroglyphics book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am homesick and I am timesick . . . I miss all that no longer is," Lil says."

-Jill McCorkle, Hieroglyphics

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18. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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19. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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20. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

By: Daniel Mason

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • historical
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

Similar categories in Ben Shattuck's The History of Sound: Stories book and Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

13 best-selling adult books like A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel Mason

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Table for Two

Amor Towles

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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29 Top fiction books like The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

Transform Your Habits

The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Coast Road

Alan Murrin

3.99

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