13 Best fiction books like The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters by Breece D'J Pancake

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The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters

By: Breece D'J Pancake

4.14

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A definitive edition of the haunted and haunting stories of the legendary West Virginia writer, inc…

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1. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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  • fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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2. Stranger in a Strange Land

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.92

Format: 525 pages, Paperback

NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more

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"Secrecy begets tyranny."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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3. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Orchard Keeper

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more

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  • fiction
"See the hand that nursed the serpent."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

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6. The Known World

By: Edward P. Jones

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more

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  • fiction

7. The Fuck-Up

By: Arthur Nersesian

4.24

Format: 384 pages,

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  • fiction
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8. A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

3.00

Format: None pages,

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more

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9. The Empathy Exams: Essays

By: Leslie Jamison

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more

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  • short stories

10. The Wordy Shipmates

By: Sarah Vowell

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

The Wordy Shipmatesis New York Timesbest-selling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans … read more

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11. The Glass Bead Game

By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more

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12. Wolf in White Van

By: John Darnielle

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolat… read more

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13. Tinkers

By: Paul Harding

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildr… read more

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14. O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

3.90

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more

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"Things away from home often look better than they are."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

15. The Complete Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more

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16. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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17. Fay

By: Larry Brown

3.86

Format: 368 pages,

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18. Cathedral

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more

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19. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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20. Small Wonder

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful exami… read more

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  • short stories
"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

"It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

"As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to …"

-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

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21. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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22. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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24. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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25. Memory's Legion

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling … read more

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  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
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26. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

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27. Drifts

By: Kate Zambreno

3.67

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation Beguiling and compulsively re… read more

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28. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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29. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando

By: William J. Mann

4.09

Format: 736 pages, ebook

Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly B… read more

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30. The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters

By: Breece D'J Pancake

4.14

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A definitive edition of the haunted and haunting stories of the legendary West Virginia writer, inc… read more

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