10 must-read literary fiction books like Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories by Thomas McGuane

Cover of Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories by Thomas McGuane

Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

By: Thomas McGuane

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most acclaimed writers, a sumptuous gathering of his singular work in the short for…

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1. A Good Day to Die

By: Jim Harrison

3.88

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them cou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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2. Even Brook Trout Get The Blues

By: John Gierach

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th… read more

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3. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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4. Legends of the Fall

By: Jim Harrison

4.12

Format: 29 pages,

'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, explorati… read more

Similar categories in Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • westerns
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

By: Steven Rinella

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more

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6. Beautiful Losers

By: Leonard Cohen

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losersis Cohen' s most defiant an… read more

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  • fiction

7. Brown Dog

By: Jim Harrison

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at… read more

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8. A Salty Piece of Land

By: Jimmy Buffett

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

#1 bestselling author Jimmy Buffett is back at last with his first new novel in a decade! It's not … read more

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9. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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10. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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11. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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12. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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13. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restau… read more

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"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction …"

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

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14. The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's The Bullet Swallower book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • westerns
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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15. The Old Place

By: Bobby Finger

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens t… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Finger's The Old Place book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
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16. A Ghost of Caribou (Alex Carter #3)

By: Alice Henderson

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Building upon the highly acclaimed debut of Alice Henderson’s  A Solitude of Wolverines  and its fo… read more

Similar categories in Alice Henderson's A Ghost of Caribou (Alex Carter #3) book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • fiction
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17. The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (Best Mystery Stories, 2)

By: Sara Paretsky

3.72

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious… read more

Similar categories in Sara Paretsky's The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (Best Mystery Stories, 2) book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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18. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories by Thomas McGuane

19. Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

By: Thomas McGuane

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most acclaimed writers, a sumptuous gathering of his singular work in the short for… read more

Similar categories in Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • literary fiction
  • westerns
  • humor
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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21. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Thomas McGuane's Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

14 best-selling fiction books like Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories by Thomas McGuane

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A Good Day to Die

Jim Harrison

3.88

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Legends of the Fall

Jim Harrison

4.12

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Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen

3.47

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Eric Ripert

3.95

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Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat

Grant Achatz , Nick Kokonas

4.29

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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

3.67

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David Chang

3.89

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