19 Top fiction books like The Everything by Richard C. Cox

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The Everything

By: Richard C. Cox

4.05

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

On most planets a typical dictionary defines 'Everything, the' as 'the world', 'reality' or 'the co…

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Cover of Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson

1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

Cover of Borne (Borne, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

2. Borne (Borne, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"People with packs are people with purpose."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

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3. Eeeee Eee Eeee

By: Tao Lin

3.33

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Confused yet intelligent animals attempt to interact with confused yet intelligent humans, resultin… read more

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  • fiction
"I don’t like happy people,"

-Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee

"Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same."

-Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee

"Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it."

-Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee

"It’s depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat."

-Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • fiction
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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5. The Book of Disquiet

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more

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  • fiction
"My past is everything I failed to be."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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6. Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover

By: Mila Jaroniec

4.16

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Through flashbacks, photographs, confessions and letters, we discover our narrator—as queer sex sto… read more

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  • fiction
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7. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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  • fiction
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Cover of Labyrinths:  Selected Stories and Other Writings by André Maurois, Jorge Luis Borges, James E. Irby, Donald A. Yates

8. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more

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  • fiction

9. Choke

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.25

Format: None pages,

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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  • fiction

11. High Fidelity

By: Nick Hornby

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more

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12. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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13. It's Kind of a Funny Story

By: Ned Vizzini

4.08

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means gettin… read more

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  • fiction
"It's such a silly little thing, the heart."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?"

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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14. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • fiction
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

15. Story of My Life

By: Jay McInerney

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights,… read more

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16. 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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17. Eyeheart Everything

By: Mykle Hansen

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Somewhere between the laughtrack of Mark Leyner's work and European surrealism, Hansen's stories s… read more

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18. 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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19. The Orange Eats Creeps

By: Steve Erickson , Grace Krilanovich

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's the '90s Pacific Northwest refracted through a dark mirror, where meth and madness hash it out… read more

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20. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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21. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh

22. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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  • fiction
"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Cover of Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

23. Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.99

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

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24. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

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Cover of Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

25. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima

26. Life for Sale

By: Yukio Mishima

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more

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  • fiction
"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

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27. The Usurper King

By: Zeb Haradon

4.23

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

The Usurper King takes place in an alternate universe where the serial killer Ted Bundy was never a… read more

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28. The Sharp End of the Rainbow

By: Madeleine Swann

3.79

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The stories you'll find at The Sharp End of the Rainbow will transport you to a dystopian wonderlan… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Cry Perfume

By: Sadie Dupuis

3.65

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Lyrical poems that engage with grief and loss and the toll of overdose and addiction with an activi… read more

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30. The Everything

By: Richard C. Cox

4.05

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

On most planets a typical dictionary defines 'Everything, the' as 'the world', 'reality' or 'the co… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Mall by Pattie Palmer-Baker

31. Mall

By: Pattie Palmer-Baker

3.35

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Set in an alternate world, MALL is a place where everyone is beautiful, and everyone is employed so… read more

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3.89

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3.93

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Mur Lafferty

3.71

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3.99

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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