11 must-read fiction books like A War of Eyes: and Other Stories by Wanda Coleman

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A War of Eyes: and Other Stories

By: Wanda Coleman

4.27

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

This collection includes such stories as "The Friday night shift at the Taco House blues (wah-wah),…

If you liked the fiction plot in A War of Eyes: and Other Stories by Wanda Coleman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. If He Hollers Let Him Go

By: Chester Himes , Hilton Als

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful toda… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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  • fiction
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3. A Single Man

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Every Night Is Ladies' Night: Stories

By: Michael Jaime-Becerra

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

With a cast of characters so vivid they seem to leap from the page, this collection of linked short… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Philosophy: A Complete Introduction

By: Sharon M. Kaye

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written by Sharon Kaye, who is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, Philosophy: A Co… read more

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6. On the Beach

By: Nevil Shute

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in south… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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8. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more

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9. The Sellout

By: Paul Beatty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more

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10. Nobody Is Ever Missing

By: Catherine Lacey

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stab… read more

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11. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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12. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)

By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more

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13. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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  • fiction
"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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15. Chelsea Girls

By: Eileen Myles

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more

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16. 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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17. Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

By: Kerry Cohen

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

For everyone who was that girl. For everyone who knew that girl. For everyone who wondered who that… read more

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18. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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19. Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more

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"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

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20. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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21. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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  • fiction
"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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22. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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  • fiction
"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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23. Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox

4.40

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more

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"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

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24. Your House Will Pay

By: Steph Cha

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in L.A., following two families—one Korean-American… read more

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  • fiction
"Don’t martyr yourself. Your workers’ comp won’t cover it.' --Shawn's boss, Manny."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"But she held tight to all her principles, and the most important of these was that family came first."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"Every day there had been rotten cops in the news and still she had been bamboozled. ‘I mean, they’re supposed to protect people, right? How can they be so bad at their jobs?’ ‘They protect people fro…"

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

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25. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

By: Katya Apekina

4.08

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump … read more

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  • fiction
"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up …"

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

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26. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

By: Maggie Nelson

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more

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"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Cover of A War of Eyes: and Other Stories by Wanda Coleman

27. A War of Eyes: and Other Stories

By: Wanda Coleman

4.27

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

This collection includes such stories as "The Friday night shift at the Taco House blues (wah-wah),… read more

Similar categories in Wanda Coleman's A War of Eyes: and Other Stories book and Wanda Coleman's A War of Eyes: and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction

11 best-selling audiobook books like Just Kids by Patti Smith

Transform Your Habits

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Girl in a Band

Kim Gordon

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Just Kids

Patti Smith

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Bunny

Mona Awad

3.50

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