12 Best novels books like Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth

Cover of Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth

Barn 8

By: Deb Olin Unferth

3.52

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers Two auditors…

"Qu'est-ce qu'on a à se laisser écraser par l'ennemi, pendant qu'on se contente de bredouiller poliment qu'on n'est pas d'accord ?"

-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8

"Qu'est-ce qu'on a à se laisser écraser par l'ennemi, pendant qu'on se contente de bredouiller poliment qu'on n'est pas d'accord ?"

-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8

"Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et poules maltraités, quelques autres espèces utiles -ainsi que des humains, d'horribles, de répugnants, d'imbattables humains."

-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8

"Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et poules maltraités, quelques autres espèces utiles -ainsi que des humains, d'horribles, de répugnants, d'imbattables humains."

-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8

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Cover of The Philosopher's Flight (The Philosophers Series, #1) by Tom Miller, Tom        Miller

1. The Philosopher's Flight (The Philosophers Series, #1)

By: Tom Miller , Tom Miller

3.89

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher’s Flight is an epic hi… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No sense in proving your relative equality only to demand special treatment."

-Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight (The Philosophers Series, #1)

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2. Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

By: Sunaura Taylor

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability li… read more

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  • animals
"Unless disability and animal justice are incorporated into our other movements for liberation, ableism and anthropocentrism will be left unchallenged, available for use by systems of domination and o…"

-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

"Denying someone [else] justice just because you do not yet have your own is never a good idea. I am also convinced we cannot have disability liberation without animal liberation--they are intimately …"

-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

"It is difficult to ascertain what role these articles play in marginalizing the vegetarian experience when there are so many more pressing issues that confront individuals who might otherwise choose …"

-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

"It's not that there are no challenges to becoming a vegetarian or vegan, but in the media, including authors of popular books on food and food politics, contribute to the 'enfreakment' of what is so …"

-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

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3. Hammerhead Ranch Motel (Serge Storms, #2)

By: Tim Dorsey

4.03

Format: 354 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every cocaine duckpins who have survived only by t… read more

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  • novels
  • humor
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Fever Dream

By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

Cover of So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar, Betsy Wing

5. So Vast the Prison

By: Assia Djebar , Betsy Wing

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben

6. Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance

By: Bill McKibben

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"I hope no one secedes, but I also hope that Americans figure out creative ways to resist injustice… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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7. Hystopia

By: David Means

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--mart… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. Square Wave

By: Mark de Silva

4.01

Format: 511 pages,

"A brilliant debut, ambitious with its ideas, extraordinary in their syntheses and execution, and i… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

9. The Man with the Compound Eyes

By: Wu Ming-Yi , Darryl Sterk

3.89

Format: 202 pages, ebook

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice … read more

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10. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

By: Chris Bohjalian

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the best-se… read more

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11. Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky

By: None

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The boys howled. In their pockets, eye droppers of gin. They skipped to their car with eyes wide op… read more

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12. Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom

By: Pete Hall , None

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

This essential resource explores how trauma disrupts learning and explains how to create a safe spa… read more

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13. The Glacier

By: None

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"Call Jeff Wood's The Glacierwhat you will--a novel-in-screenplay-form; a prose poem on the themes … read more

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14. Available Dark (Cass Neary, #2)

By: Elizabeth Hand

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

"Shimmers with gorgeous writing even as it scares the dickens out of you." --Tess Gerritsen Photogr… read more

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15. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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16. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Something New Under the Sun

By: Alexandra Kleeman

3.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Why was the only choice paper or plastic, rathern than being able to choose to buy nothing at all?"

-Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun

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19. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

By: Ai Weiwei

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more

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20. Swanna in Love

By: Jennifer Belle

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways by Megan Kimble

21. City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

By: Megan Kimble

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Medea by Blandine Le Callet

22. Medea

By: Blandine Le Callet

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Who was Medea, really? Beyond the hearsay, exaggerations, and distortions inflicted by time, thi… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Shame by Makenna Goodman

23. The Shame

By: Makenna Goodman

3.60

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth

24. Barn 8

By: Deb Olin Unferth

3.52

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers Two auditors… read more

Similar categories in Deb Olin Unferth's Barn 8 book and Deb Olin Unferth's Barn 8

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • humor
  • animals
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Qu'est-ce qu'on a à se laisser écraser par l'ennemi, pendant qu'on se contente de bredouiller poliment qu'on n'est pas d'accord ?"

-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8

"Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et …"

-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8

"Si le cerveau des mammifères a évolué selon une certaine voie, celui des oiseaux en a suivi une autre . Progression dynamique plutôt que stagnation reptilienne. Au lieu de se déployer à la surface en…"

-Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8

Cover of The Story of Silence by Alex    Myers

25. The Story of Silence

By: Alex Myers

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dar… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil

26. Artificial: A Love Story

By: Amy Kurzweil

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcend… read more

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  • adult
Cover of The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein

27. The Vegan

By: Andrew Lipstein

3.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In The Vegan , Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, gre… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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28. Heartbreaker

By: Claudia Dey

3.57

Format: 261 pages, ebook

A poignant new novel that combines humour and heartache, from the brilliant mind of Governor Genera… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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29. Tenderloin

By: Joy Sorman

3.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman’s macabre ballet whirls… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen

30. Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

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31. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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Tom Miller , Tom Miller

3.89

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Tim Dorsey

4.03

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Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

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So Vast the Prison

Assia Djebar , Betsy Wing

4.40

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Deena Mohamed

4.50

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Darrin Bell

4.65

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Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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Emily Carroll

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