17 Top fiction books like The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories by Bruce Wagner

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The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories

By: Bruce Wagner

4.30

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

The Marvel Stories The new novel by Bruce Wagner

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Cover of La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq

1. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

Cover of The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) by James Ellroy

2. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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3. Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)

By: Thomas Harris

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal… read more

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4. Bright Lights, Big City

By: Jay McInerney

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation,… read more

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"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

"You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters."

-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

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5. Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.54

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more

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"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

6. 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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7. American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)

By: James Ellroy

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassina… read more

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8. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

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9. 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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"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

10. Vernon Subutex 3 (Vernon Subutex, #3)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Vous l'attendez depuis deux ans, le voici ! Vernon Subutex 3, le retour de Vernon, suite et fin de … read more

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11. 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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"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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12. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

By: Ed Zwick

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more

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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

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13. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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14. Fleishman Is in Trouble

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.64

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more

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"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

Cover of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

15. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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16. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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17. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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Cover of Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

18. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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19. 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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"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

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20. New Millennium Boyz

By: Alex Kazemi

3.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brad Sela is living an apathetic suburban life in his affluent neighborhood until two new friends d… read more

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Cover of The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories by Bruce Wagner

21. The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories

By: Bruce Wagner

4.30

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

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31 must-read fiction books like Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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