17 Top fiction books like The Longcut (American Literature) by Emily Hall

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The Longcut (American Literature)

By: Emily Hall

3.62

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn't know what her art is. As she gets lost on her …

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Cover of The Emigrants by Michael Hulse, W.G. Sebald

1. The Emigrants

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.17

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."

-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants

"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"

-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants

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2. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Paperback

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more

Similar categories in Leonora Carrington's The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington book and Emily Hall's The Longcut (American Literature)

  • art
  • fiction
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3. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Ex-wife

By: Ursula Parrott

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more

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  • womens
  • fiction

5. Known and Strange Things: Essays

By: Teju Cole

3.97

Format: 176 pages,

The 40-plus essays will span art, literature, and politics, with topics from Virginia Woolf and Jam… read more

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6. With My Dog Eyes

By: Adam Morris , Hilda Hilst

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A short, stunning book by a Brazilian master of the avant-garde. Something has changed in Amos Kere… read more

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7. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer  Croft

8. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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9. The Last Children of Tokyo

By: Yōko Tawada

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

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10. The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers. In 1940s Japan, t… read more

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  • fiction
"Detective you have to arrest her. You have to arrest her and put her to death. Not just the regular death penalty - that's not good enough for her. I want her to hang by her heels, rip her to shreds,…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)

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11. The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

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12. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Emily Hall's The Longcut (American Literature)

  • art
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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13. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Saint Sebastian's Abyss

By: Mark Haber

3.71

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more

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  • art
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"

-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss

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15. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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16. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Taiwan Travelogue

By: Shuang-zi Yang

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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19. The Longcut (American Literature)

By: Emily Hall

3.62

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn't know what her art is. As she gets lost on her … read more

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  • art
  • the united states of america
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
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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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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. Lupin III (Lupin the 3rd): Thick as Thieves - The Classic Manga Collection (Lupin III (Lupin the 3rd): Greatest Heists)

By: Monkey Punch

4.12

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Monkey Punch's immortal creations are among the most beloved characters of all time, from master th… read more

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