13 best-selling literary fiction books like Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff

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Come West and See: Stories

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an …

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
Cover of Purity by Jonathan Franzen, Lucie Mikolajková

2. Purity

By: Jonathan Franzen , Lucie Mikolajková

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Franzen's Purity book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Omon Ra

By: Victor Pelevin , Andrew Bromfield

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Rahas been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in… read more

Similar categories in Victor Pelevin's Omon Ra book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • fiction

4. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Bright Dead Things book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

5. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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6. 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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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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7. 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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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I would like to belong but I dont."

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

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

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

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-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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8. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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9. Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell

3.27

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more

Similar categories in Karen Russell's Swamplandia! book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"the gravity of wound to fist"

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

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10. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's There There book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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11. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Cover of The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) by Andrey Kurkov

12. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • adult
  • audiobook
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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16. Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more

Similar categories in Leo Vardiashvili's Hard by a Great Forest book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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18. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin

3.72

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a Cal… read more

Similar categories in Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • westerns
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Remembrance is the burden of the body, not of the mind. True memory is not to be recollected. It is a rite to be performed."

-Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

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19. Fall Back Down When I Die

By: Joe Wilkins

4.04

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Wendell Newman, a young ranch hand in Montana, has recently lost his mother, leaving him an orphan,… read more

Similar categories in Joe Wilkins's Fall Back Down When I Die book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Masquerade

By: O.O. Sangoyomi

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more

Similar categories in O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff

21. Come West and See: Stories

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an … read more

Similar categories in Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories book and Maxim Loskutoff's Come West and See: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • short story collection
  • westerns
  • politics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Cormac McCarthy

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4.61

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3.95

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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