19 Top fiction books like Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera

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Season of the Swamp

By: Yuri Herrera

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of…

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Cover of Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin

1. Vladivostok Circus

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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2. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"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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3. La infancia del mundo

By: Michel Nieva

3.71

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Una mirada ciberpunk a la crisis climática. Una de las voces más singulares de la literatura argent… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Napalm al cor

By: Pol Guasch

3.69

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

«De vegades penso que estic anotant el futur. Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"El sol gratina el terra". "Un vespre cítric"."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Des d'aleshores viure es va convertir en sobreviure, que és la pitjor forma d'estar viu."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les paraules. Algú, potser, les podrà entendre."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Quan la tristesa es cansa i desapareix, la tristesa és, aleshores, el temps. I el pare duia el temps a dins."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

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5. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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6. Canoës

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

« J'ai conçu Canoës comme un roman en pièces détachées : une novella centrale, «Mustang», et autour… read more

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  • fiction
"La nuit était d’une beauté surnaturelle, couleur de mûre noire, les fumées blanchâtres de l’usine Coors s’y dissipaient à gros bouillons, inversant les valeurs de lumière comme sur un négatif photogr…"

-Maylis de Kerangal, Canoës

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7. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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8. Isla partida

By: Daniela Tarazona

3.29

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

En los pasillos de esta novela, una mujer se repite y multiplica. Se parte en dos. En este mundo fe… read more

Similar categories in Daniela Tarazona's Isla partida book and Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. Season of the Swamp

By: Yuri Herrera

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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11. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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12. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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13. The Book Swap

By: Tessa Bickers

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“A love letter to books and reading. This debut is catnip for any book geek. I just loved it.” —Ces… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bickers's The Book Swap book and Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp

  • fiction
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14. A Fire in the Sky

By: Sophie Jordan

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns to the high-stakes, sweeping world of drago… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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16. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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17. Yr Dead

By: Sam Sax

4.28

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Absolution (Southern Reach, #4) by Jeff VanderMeer

18. Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.00

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s bl… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Absolution (Southern Reach, #4) book and Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp

  • fiction
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19. The City in Glass

By: Nghi Vo

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. 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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"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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3.49

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3.63

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Pol Guasch

3.69

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Elif Shafak

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Katelyn Doyle

3.67

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Sarah Chamberlain

3.88

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Melissa Wiesner

3.90

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Emma Lord

3.46

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