9 must-read classics books like The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

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The Easter Parade

By: Richard Yates

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are…

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Cover of Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23) by Richard Stark

1. Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

By: Richard Stark

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he … read more

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  • fiction
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2. A Suspension of Mercy

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.82

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife, Alicia—at least he has thought about it, compulsively, over an… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
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3. The Moviegoer

By: Walker Percy

3.65

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

Cover of Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore

4. Birds of America: Stories

By: Lorrie Moore

4.10

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work to… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
"I would be a genius now,"

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

"This is a political New Year's Eve,"

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

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5. The Assistant

By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Rosen

4.00

Format: 32 pages,

Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a groce… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
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6. Dog Soldiers

By: Robert Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. The Thirtieth Year: Stories

By: Ingeborg Bachmann , Michael Bullock

4.02

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

This is collection of the stories written by a distinguished Austrian author who died in 1973. Read… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"No new world without a new language."

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

"As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now that he was living in a prison, that he had to make the best of it in there and would soon ra…"

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

"Kendi yasama ihanet etmeden bu tasaları nasıl haklı görebilirdim? Girdiğiniz çıkmazların önemine nasıl inanabilirdim? Size gerçekten inandıkça, o güçsüz ve kendini beğenmiş sözlerinizden, o miskin da…"

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

"Etimin konuk ettiği ruhum, ikiyüzlü ev sahibinden daha da büyük bir düzenbazdır. Her şeyden önce onunla karşılaşmaktan çekinmeyelim. Çünkü düşündüğüm hiçbir şeyin benimle ilişkisi yok. Her düşünce, y…"

-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories

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8. How Fiction Works

By: James Wood

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more

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  • literature
Cover of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey

9. A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates

By: Blake Bailey

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest c… read more

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  • literature
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10. The Easter Parade

By: Richard Yates

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are… read more

Similar categories in Richard Yates's The Easter Parade book and Richard Yates's The Easter Parade

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Dimineaţă pierdută by Gabriela Adameșteanu

11. Dimineaţă pierdută

By: Gabriela Adameșteanu

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

,,Este intr-adevar un roman generos cu cititorul: il implica direct, lasindu-l in principiu sa-si a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard, Sophie Wilkins

12. The Lime Works

By: Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

For twenty years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works wh… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels

13. They Came Like Swallows

By: William Maxwell

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an… read more

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14. The Tanners

By: Robert Walser , W.G. Sebald , Susan Bernofsky , Jo Catling

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for… read more

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15. Indignation

By: Philip Roth

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying … read more

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16. Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #4)

By: John Fante

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934… read more

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17. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
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  • novels
"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

18. Nobody Runs Forever (Parker, #22)

By: Richard Stark

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Master criminal Parker is back and in deeper, darker trouble than ever before. The classic anti-her… read more

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19. An Academic Question

By: Barbara Pym

3.58

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tediu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels

20. Operation Shylock: A Confession

By: Philip Roth

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pret… read more

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21. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

13 Top fiction books like The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

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Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

Richard Stark

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Suspension of Mercy

Patricia Highsmith

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Birds of America: Stories

Lorrie Moore

4.10

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15 best-selling fiction books like The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Rosen

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The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)

John Dos Passos

3.82

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The Adventures of Augie March

Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow

3.84

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Ferito a morte

Raffaele La Capria

3.93

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