21 Best audiobook books like Creative Types and Other Stories by Tom Bissell

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Creative Types and Other Stories

By: Tom Bissell

3.35

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Tom Bissell is one of America's best and most interesting writers." --Stephen King, in the antholo…

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1. Knockemstiff

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. The Visible Man

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffsand Downtown Owl, "the Ethicist" of … read more

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  • fiction

3. Rich and Pretty

By: Rumaan Alam

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how t… read more

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4. The Family Fang

By: Kevin Wilson

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief. Performance artists Caleb and C… read more

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5. The Tsar of Love and Techno

By: Anthony Marra

4.00

Format: 274 pages,

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena--dazzling, poignan… read more

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6. In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more

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7. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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8. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Identitti

By: Mithu M. Sanyal

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Was für ein Skandal: Prof. Dr. Saraswati ist WEISS! Schlimmer geht es nicht. Denn die Professorin f… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...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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12. Nothing Special

By: Nicole Flattery

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Vacuum in the Dark

By: Jen Beagin

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voic… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Angel of Rome and Other Stories

By: Jess Walter

4.01

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stun… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. How to Be Eaten

By: Maria Adelmann

3.60

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But something changes after tragedy,"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Morals create a labyrinth of rules geared toward blaming the victim"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"What if, for some of us, moving on involves finding good in the bad? Or being thankful for how we changed? That doesn't mean we wished it to happen."

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Maybe just don't leave the house at all", Gretel pipes in. "Maybe stay home". "But isn't that where accidents happen?" says Ashlee. "So lock all of the doors", says Ruby. "Doesn't always help", says …"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

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16. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. American Spirits

By: Russell Banks

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Vagabonds!

By: Eloghosa Osunde

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"

-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."

-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."

-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"

-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

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20. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The New Me

By: Halle Butler

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. False Bingo: Stories

By: Jac Jemc

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces (some s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. The Book of Ayn

By: Lexi Freiman

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more

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  • fiction
"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"

-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn

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24. American Mermaid

By: Julia Langbein

3.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"

-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"

-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

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25. You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories

By: Maggie Shipstead

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Maggie Shipstead, an irresistible collection of short stori… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Experienced

By: Kate Young

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“A fizzing, lip-chewing, collar-bone biting, palm-sweating roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. A Star Is Bored

By: Byron Lane

3.57

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously heartfelt novel about living life at full force, and discovering family when you leas… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Take your broken heart and go make art. - Carrie Fisher"

-Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

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28. Something to Do with Paying Attention (McNally Editions)

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel—some 1,100 pages of … read more

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  • fiction
"He made a gesture I can't describe: 'Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth --actual h…"

-David Foster Wallace, Something to Do with Paying Attention (McNally Editions)

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29. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Creative Types and Other Stories

By: Tom Bissell

3.35

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Tom Bissell is one of America's best and most interesting writers." --Stephen King, in the antholo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook

25 Best fiction books like Creative Types and Other Stories by Tom Bissell

Transform Your Habits

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Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Visible Man

Chuck Klosterman

3.57

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Eastbound

Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

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4.54

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Amor Towles

4.26

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Adelle Waldman

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