10 Top amazon books like Me and Carlos by Tom Perrotta

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Me and Carlos

By: Tom Perrotta

3.72

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

A darkly comic reflection on American class divides and coming-of-age regrets by Tom Perrotta, the …

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1. The Tomorrow Box

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.48

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

An unnervingly funny and sharply observant story about the privilege, class division, and purposefu… read more

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  • short stories
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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) by Ken Liu

2. The Cleaners (Faraway Collection)

By: Ken Liu

3.48

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Touch the past or wash it away? Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of ever… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Halfway to Free by Emma Donoghue

3. Halfway to Free

By: Emma Donoghue

3.72

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale) Raising a family is the ultimate luxury as… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay

4. Graceful Burdens

By: Roxane Gay

4.05

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale) From New York Times bestselling author Rox… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. This Telling

By: Cheryl Strayed

3.95

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on … read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Sweet Virginia

By: Caroline Kepnes

3.02

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s a woman to do when she fails to live up to feminine ideals? It depends on what she’s willing… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection) by Nic Stone

7. Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection)

By: Nic Stone

3.47

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Two anxious young lovers lost in the woods. A beckoning mansion in a dark clearing. A short modern-… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection) book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. Bear Witness

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.20

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Margo Martindale (Mrs. America) In the wake of a brutal crime, three people c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Contractors

By: Lisa Ko

3.55

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Lea Salonga (Aladdin) A split-screen view of the tech industry’s underbelly—a… read more

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  • short stories
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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Weddings (Inheritance collection) by Alexander Chee

10. The Weddings (Inheritance collection)

By: Alexander Chee

3.36

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

For Jack Cho, a fortysomething gay man, being able to marry someone he loves is so unfamiliar it’s … read more

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's The Weddings (Inheritance collection) book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Zenith Man

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Whatever had been going on inside the shuttered old house, the couple who lived there kept it to th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Two Henrys (This Can't Be Happening collection) by Kevin Allison

12. Two Henrys (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Kevin Allison

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Coming out can be awkward enough—let alone coming out in the 1970s, in Ohio, as a Catholic schoolbo… read more

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  • coming of age
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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13. Black Sheep (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Rory Scholl

3.56

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

An irresponsible twentysomething comic and his equally shameless grandmother join forces as proud p… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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14. The Third Man (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Mani Sheriar

3.93

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What would happen if your baby’s birth father represented everything you despised and feared? In th… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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15. Identity Thief (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Rachel Rosenthal

3.91

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Who would want to steal the identity of a minimum-wage employee at a children’s museum? In this har… read more

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  • short stories
  • amazon
  • audiobook
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16. The Prince and the Troll (Faraway Collection)

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.26

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

A charming everyman and a mysterious something-under-the-bridge cross paths in a short fairy tale b… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Princess Game (Faraway Collection) by Soman Chainani

17. The Princess Game (Faraway Collection)

By: Soman Chainani

3.51

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no happy endings for the Princesses of Chaminade High in this short, twisty tale of teena… read more

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  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. The Wickeds (Faraway Collection)

By: Gayle Forman

3.67

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The reviled villainesses of Snow White, Cinderella, and Rapunzel team up to set the record straight… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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19. Rewards

By: Emma Cline

2.84

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Two women reflect on the value of their lives in a wry short story of male privilege and undeserved… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • short stories
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Before Her (The One #1) by Jacqueline Woodson

20. Before Her (The One #1)

By: Jacqueline Woodson

3.60

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In this transportive memoir, the National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming traces t… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Before Her (The One #1) book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • contemporary
Cover of Giraffe & Flamingo by Curtis Sittenfeld

21. Giraffe & Flamingo

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.65

Format: 18 pages, Kindle Edition

In this incisive short story about memory and the limits of self-perception, the New York Times bes… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • short stories
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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22. Simplexity

By: Kiley Reid

3.56

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

A twenty-eight-year-old entry-level worker at a design firm navigates the microaggressive corporate… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Simplexity book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • short stories
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer House (Currency) by Cristina Henríquez

23. The Summer House (Currency)

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.40

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Accustomed to being used, a jack-of-all-odd-jobs is torn between desire and duty in a short story a… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Summer House (Currency) book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • contemporary
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Would Be Doing This Anyway by Jia Tolentino

24. I Would Be Doing This Anyway

By: Jia Tolentino

3.65

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp short story about anonymity, mutual deception, and the perils of overexposure—debut f… read more

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  • short stories
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Yes, And (The One, #4) by Kristi Coulter

25. Yes, And (The One, #4)

By: Kristi Coulter

3.36

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Can I be honest with you? A wife and husband face a defining moment in their relationship in this e… read more

Similar categories in Kristi Coulter's Yes, And (The One, #4) book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • contemporary
Cover of If You Are Lonely and You Know It (Currency) by Yiyun Li

26. If You Are Lonely and You Know It (Currency)

By: Yiyun Li

3.42

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

He tends to his garden and bees. He keeps quiet. He avoids drama. Until one transgression causes an… read more

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  • short stories
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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27. Crewelwork (Currency)

By: Justin Torres

3.41

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

Poised between his lush introversion and the brutal realm of his every day, a young artist consider… read more

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  • short stories
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Me and Carlos by Tom Perrotta

28. Me and Carlos

By: Tom Perrotta

3.72

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

A darkly comic reflection on American class divides and coming-of-age regrets by Tom Perrotta, the … read more

Similar categories in Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Shine, Pamela! Shine! by Kate Atkinson

29. Shine, Pamela! Shine!

By: Kate Atkinson

3.11

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Thoroughly divorced but ever the optimist, Pamela faces the realities of aging and the leaps of fai… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Shine, Pamela! Shine! book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Parable (The One, #2) by Jess Walter

30. Parable (The One, #2)

By: Jess Walter

4.29

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

That’s not cool! #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter finds his beloved Millie sleeping… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • contemporary
Cover of The Visitor (The One, #5) by Dodai Stewart

31. The Visitor (The One, #5)

By: Dodai Stewart

3.40

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Maybe it’s true: love is just around the corner. But in this bittersweet true story, what’s a hopef… read more

Similar categories in Dodai Stewart's The Visitor (The One, #5) book and Tom Perrotta's Me and Carlos

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • contemporary
"Movies, TV shows, and romance novels are always subtly (and not so subtly) preaching that, for fairy-tale princesses, happily every after means leaving Home. That none of the details matter if you're…"

-Dodai Stewart, The Visitor (The One, #5)

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3.72

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Roxane Gay

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Andrea Bartz

3.73

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Ivy Pochoda

3.40

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Rachel Howzell Hall

3.36

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