12 Top fiction books like We Don't Live Here Anymore by Andre Dubus, Andre Dubus III, Larry Gross

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We Don't Live Here Anymore

By: Andre Dubus , Andre Dubus III , Larry Gross

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

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1. Montana 1948

By: Larry Watson

3.88

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The events of that small-town summer forever alter David Hayden's view of his family: his self-effa… read more

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"Out of town I could simply be , I could feel my self , firm and calm and unmalleable as I could not when I was in school or in any of the usual human communities that seemed to weaken or scatter me. …"

-Larry Watson, Montana 1948

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2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: Junot Díaz

3.89

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more

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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"It's never the changes we want that change everything."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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3. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

By: James Agee , Walker Evans

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more

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4. The Mezzanine

By: Nicholson Baker

4.35

Format: None pages,

Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more

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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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6. We Don't Live Here Anymore

By: Andre Dubus , Andre Dubus III , Larry Gross

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

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  • american
  • americana
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Garden of Last Days

By: Andre Dubus III

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

Andre Dubus III draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect… read more

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8. Zombie

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

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9. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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10. 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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11. Hard Rain Falling

By: None , Don Carpenter

4.14

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more

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  • novels
  • american
  • fiction
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"

-None, Hard Rain Falling

12. The Sisters Brothers

By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more

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13. La camera azzurra

By: Georges Simenon , Marina di Leo

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . "Sei cosi bello" gli aveva dett… read more

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14. I baffi

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.73

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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16. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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17. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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18. Survivor

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, … read more

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  • american
  • literature
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  • contemporary
  • novels
"Suicide is very contagious."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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19. Invisible Monsters

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a su… read more

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"Sorry, mom. Sorry, God."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"Make me into anything, but just love me."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"The future is just wasted on some people."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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20. House of Sand and Fog

By: Andre Dubus III

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down o… read more

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"Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk."

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

"Lester wanted to rise up out of this like a cloud, to drift over the valley and shore to the Pacific, to dissolve into its huge green expanse like rain."

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

"Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen."

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

"It’s easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision…"

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

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21. Such Kindness

By: Andre Dubus III

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He … read more

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