6 best-selling mystery books like The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball

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The Repeat Room

By: Jesse Ball

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brillia…

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1. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

Similar categories in Emet North's In Universes book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

Similar categories in 'Pemi Aguda's Ghostroots: Stories book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • fiction
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5. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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6. Season of the Swamp

By: Yuri Herrera

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more

Similar categories in Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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7. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more

Similar categories in Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"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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11. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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13. Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation

By: Jim O'Heir

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Jim O’Heir, best known for his role as Jerry (or Garry/Larry/Terry/Barry) on Parks and Recreation a… read more

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14. Two-Step Devil

By: Jamie Quatro

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times Notable "writer of great originality" comes a bold novel about love, faith an… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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15. The Repeat Room

By: Jesse Ball

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brillia… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
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16. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Model Home book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • fiction
Cover of A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg

17. A Reason to See You Again

By: Jami Attenberg

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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18. Gaslight

By: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker and pod… read more

Similar categories in Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's Gaslight book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Blood Test: A Comedy

By: Charles Baxter

3.35

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) com… read more

Similar categories in Charles Baxter's Blood Test: A Comedy book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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20. Lazarus Man

By: Richard Price

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, shines … read more

Similar categories in Richard Price's Lazarus Man book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Us Fools

By: Nora Lange

3.37

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern… read more

Similar categories in Nora Lange's Us Fools book and Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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