8 Best fiction books like Beautiful Days by Joyce Carol Oates

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Beautiful Days

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.47

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including th…

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1. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

By: Claudia Rowe

3.21

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A true story of a female journalist, her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her … read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
Cover of The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams

2. The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

By: Joy Williams

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The legendary writer's first collection in more than ten years--and, finally, the definitive one. A… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Halloween Carnival Volume 1

By: Brian James Freeman , Robert McCammon , Kevin Lucia , Lisa Morton , Mark Allan Gunnells , John Little

4.17

Format: None pages, ebook

STRANGE CANDY by Robert McCammon Chocolate bars and sour suckers are trick-or-treat staples, but be… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. You Don't Look Your Age: And Other Fairy Tales

By: Sheila Nevins

2.00

Format: None pages, ebook

For readers of Nora Ephron, Anna Quindlen, and even Lena Dunham, comes a collection of stories and … read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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5. Between Them: Remembering My Parents

By: Richard Ford

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of … read more

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  • audiobook
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6. After Henry

By: Joan Didion

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Ange… read more

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7. Senior Season

By: Tom Perrotta

3.95

Format: 145 pages, ebook

A glimpse into parallel lives in a suburban town Tom Perrotta has made recognizably his in novels l… read more

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8. Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Rosamond Smith

3.86

Format: 258 pages, ebook

Demure Lily Merrick is a dutiful housewife and mother who teaches pottery classes in upstate New Yo… read more

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9. Then We Came to the End

By: Joshua Ferris

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: th… read more

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10. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

By: Richard P. Feynman , Freeman Dyson , Jeffrey Robbins

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. F… read more

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11. I'm Starved for You (Positron, #1)

By: Margaret Atwood

4.33

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have signed up for a new social order b… read more

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12. Seize the Day

By: Cynthia Ozick , Saul Bellow

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the ful… read more

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13. Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

By: Ron Rash

3.87

Format: 334 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Serenaand The Cove, thirty-four of his fines… read more

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14. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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15. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...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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17. The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence

By: Lisa Mosconi

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain shows women how to navigate menopause success… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Mosconi's The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence book and Joyce Carol Oates's Beautiful Days

  • audiobook
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18. Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories

By: Kevin Wilson

3.80

Format: 288 pages, ebook

“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023

By: Lisa Unger

3.41

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bests… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Beautiful Days

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.47

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including th… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Beautiful Days book and Joyce Carol Oates's Beautiful Days

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • unfinished
  • female authors
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • audiobook
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21. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

6 Top contemporary books like Beautiful Days by Joyce Carol Oates

Transform Your Habits

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Joy Williams

3.00

Transform Your Habits

youthjuice

E.K. Sathue

3.21

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories

Kevin Wilson

3.80

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6 Best literature books like A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain

Transform Your Habits

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Joanna Biggs

4.01

Transform Your Habits

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Amina Cain

4.03

Transform Your Habits

I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

Annie Ernaux

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Hearing Test

Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

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