21 must-read fiction books like Worsted by Garielle Lutz

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Worsted

By: Garielle Lutz

4.40

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Worsted is a collection of fourteen new stories by the author of The Complete Gary Lutz. Some excer…

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Cover of Sleepless Nights by Geoffrey O'Brien, Elizabeth Hardwick

1. Sleepless Nights

By: Geoffrey O'Brien , Elizabeth Hardwick

3.74

Format: 410 pages,

In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life--the parade of people, the shifting background o… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. Mao II

By: Don DeLillo

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Love

By: Toni Morrison

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion an… read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • fiction

5. Great Jones Street

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relev… read more

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6. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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  • fiction
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

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7. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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  • fiction
"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

8. 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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9. Gazelle

By: Rikki Ducornet

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelletraces the story of Elizabeth, a thir… read more

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10. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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  • fiction
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

11. My Life and My Life in the Nineties

By: Lyn Hejinian

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garne… read more

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12. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Lovesh… read more

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13. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • fiction
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

14. Gutshot

By: Amelia Gray

3.92

Format: None pages,

A searing new collection from the inimitable Amelia Gray A woman creeps through the ductwork of a q… read more

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15. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • fiction
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

16. Bender: New and Selected Poems

By: Dean Young

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Young's Benderis a book of survival and strength, of seeing even in the smallest things the height… read more

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17. Cosmopolis

By: Don DeLillo

4.00

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently ma… read more

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18. Outer Dark

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more

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19. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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20. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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21. Lapvona

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.53

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more

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  • fiction
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

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22. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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  • fiction
"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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24. Tentacle

By: Rita Indiana

3.58

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa … read more

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  • fiction
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25. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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26. Checkout 19

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

3.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more

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  • fiction
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

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27. Untold Night and Day

By: Bae Suah

3.49

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more

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  • fiction
"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

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28. Certain American States: Stories

By: Catherine Lacey

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists comes Certain American States, whose insightf… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

29. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
"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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30. Worsted

By: Garielle Lutz

4.40

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Worsted is a collection of fourteen new stories by the author of The Complete Gary Lutz. Some excer… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Imaginary Museums: Stories by Nicolette Polek

31. Imaginary Museums: Stories

By: Nicolette Polek

3.63

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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