16 Top fiction books like Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon

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Run Me to Earth

By: Paul Yoon

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 19…

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1. The End of the Point

By: Elizabeth Graver

3.21

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the d… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"I love him too and believe he loves me, but does he like me, which is not the same as love?"

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

"Now it's dusk, bats swooping and rising along the lawn, against the sea. Would that she could join them-flap wings, fly blind, beat back her foul mood."

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

"To have hummingbirds visit. Charlie set up a feeder outside her bedroom window. Never a poet like Dossy, Helen feels a new urge toward veerse. Flit and perch, hovercraft, I follow you."

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

"Helen was happy for them, and disdainful, and jealous of them for getting more of each other while she got less of them, and, mostly, astonished-that life could actually move forward like this into a…"

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

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2. The Tricking of Freya

By: Christina Sunley

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A young woman obsessed with uncovering a family secret is drawn into the strange and magical histor… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sunley's The Tricking of Freya book and Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. My People the Sioux

By: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve , Luther Standing Bear

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe a… read more

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4. All the Wind in the World

By: Samantha Mabry

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Jacqueline Crow and James Holt work in the vast maguey fields that span the bone-dry Southwes… read more

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5. Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone

By: Jenni Ferrari-Adler

4.19

Format: 168 pages,

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6. I, Claudia

By: Mary McCoy

3.92

Format: 314 pages,

Alix Reid at Carolrhoda Lab has bought Mary McCoy's YA novel I, Claudia, a contemporary retelling o… read more

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7. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Legacy of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southbourne, #3) by Tade Thompson

9. The Legacy of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southbourne, #3)

By: Tade Thompson

3.69

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Tade Thompson, The Legacy of Molly Southbourne continues his chi… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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10. The Pasha of Cuisine

By: Saygın Ersin

4.24

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series and Richard C. Morais's The Hundred-Foot Journey, a… read more

Similar categories in Saygın Ersin's The Pasha of Cuisine book and Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"In those days, he was so naive that he didn't realize that many of our woes are imaginary and the chains we forge for ourselves become heavier the longer we carry them."

-Saygın Ersin, The Pasha of Cuisine

"Most people don't realize this, but every taste is related to a memory or an emotion. Flavors are part of a person's past, and are the translation of emotion into another language."

-Saygın Ersin, The Pasha of Cuisine

"There's no such thing as forgetting. No matter how hard you try, you only think you've forgotten, and over time the things you think you have forgotten emerge again under another guise and tear into …"

-Saygın Ersin, The Pasha of Cuisine

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11. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

By: Kao Kalia Yang

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more

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  • asia
  • adult
  • war
  • audiobook
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12. The Archive of Alternate Endings

By: Lindsey Drager

4.06

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with ear… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"Jacob will think: What is at stake in sharing this story? And Wilhelm will think: What is at stake in leaving this story untold?"

-Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings

"Though she cannot read, she knows well that what gets committed to the page, what gets translated into the code of letters and locked in the coffin of a book, becomes truth while everything else diss…"

-Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings

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13. Arid Dreams

By: Duanwad Pimwana

3.32

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for mor… read more

Similar categories in Duanwad Pimwana's Arid Dreams book and Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth

  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Red Car

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her “dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups” (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky off… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And that is one of the problems of your generation. All sex. No romance. No love."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen."

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

"I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn’t think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I …"

-Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car

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15. The Regrets

By: Amy Bonnaffons

3.19

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's dazzling, darkly playful debut novel about a love aff… read more

Similar categories in Amy Bonnaffons's The Regrets book and Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Run Me to Earth

By: Paul Yoon

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 19… read more

Similar categories in Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth book and Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • war
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Broken Man on a Halifax Pier

By: Lesley Choyce

3.92

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

A tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers. Fifty-five-year-old Charl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Costalegre

By: Courtney Maum

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. In the haute-bohemian circles of Austria, Germany, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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19. Pilgrims

By: Matthew Kneale

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The year 1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pil… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Kneale's Pilgrims book and Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Holy City

By: Henry Wise

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of smal… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Seventh Perfection

By: Daniel Polansky

3.62

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

Daniel Polansky returns with The Seventh Perfection, an innovative, mind-bending fantasy mystery … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We are all mothers, when it comes down to it. And men are all children."

-Daniel Polansky, Seventh Perfection

"There is no such thing as truth, there is only belief, and belief is power."

-Daniel Polansky, Seventh Perfection

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