16 Best fiction books like You'll Like It Here by Ashton Politanoff

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You'll Like It Here

By: Ashton Politanoff

4.22

Format: 204 pages, ebook

You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten…

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1. The Flamethrowers

By: Rachel Kushner

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more

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2. Lush Life

By: Richard Price

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

"Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, pro… read more

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3. I Remember

By: Joe Brainard

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In a book which uniquely captures 1950's America, Brainard constructs the story of his life through… read more

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4. The Dead Father

By: Donald Barthelme , Donald Antrim

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

"There is nothing unusual about the foot, except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen people are… read more

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5. The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

By: Elif Batuman

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED--ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!--TO THE RUS… read more

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6. Speedboat

By: Renata Adler

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more

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7. The End of Vandalism

By: Tom Drury , None

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

A thief vacuums the church before stealing the chalice....A lonely woman paints her toenails in a d… read more

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8. Dept. of Speculation

By: Jenny Offill

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more

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9. Bad Sex

By: Clancy Martin

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This novel deals, primarily, with an adulterous love affair. It also talks about alcoholism, self-d… read more

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10. Kick the Latch

By: Kathryn Scanlan

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more

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11. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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12. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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13. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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14. The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction

By: Zoë Bossiere

4.32

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in… read more

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15. When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.91

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Novelist Alia Trabucco Zerán has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence aga… read more

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16. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

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17. Teenager

By: Bud Smith

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more

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18. Bad Foundations

By: Brian Allen Carr

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life … read more

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19. Duplex

By: Mike Nagel

4.60

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he's hungover. There's a squirrel in the… read more

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20. Seven Steeples

By: Sara Baume

3.53

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more

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"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"

-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples

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21. Suppose a Sentence

By: Brian Dillon

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, … read more

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22. I Hear You're Rich

By: Diane Williams

2.60

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Diane Williams, “godmother of flash fiction” (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant s… read more

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23. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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24. Mount Chicago

By: Adam Levin

3.89

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absur… read more

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25. The Dominant Animal

By: Kathryn Scanlan

3.58

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist In… read more

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26. Hobbies You Enjoy: A Novelty

By: Brian Alan Ellis

4.61

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Serving as a somewhat companion piece to such literary classics as Letters to Wendy’s, Jack Handey’… read more

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27. You'll Like It Here

By: Ashton Politanoff

4.22

Format: 204 pages, ebook

You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten… read more

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28. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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29. NOON 2024

By: Diane Williams

4.82

Format: 170 pages, None

Recently lauded by Merve Emre in The New Yorker as publishing “the most interesting short-story wri… read more

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30. Leasing

By: D.T. Robbins

4.87

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

David, like every other rock-bottom soul, runs out of options and ends up working at Victoria Lawn—… read more

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31. The Deer

By: Dashiel Carrera

3.11

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The Deer is a rhythmic, surrealist psychological thriller about a physicist who hits—what appears—t… read more

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Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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4.34

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