14 must-read literary fiction books like Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry

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Nine Shiny Objects

By: Brian Castleberry

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era t…

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. Shotgun Lovesongs

By: Nickolas Butler

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town -- Little Wing -- a… read more

Similar categories in Nickolas Butler's Shotgun Lovesongs book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Bradstreet Gate

By: Robin Kirman

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A tour de force debut about a campus murder for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey E… read more

Similar categories in Robin Kirman's Bradstreet Gate book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction

3. The Word Exchange

By: Alena Graedon

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange offers an inventive, suspenseful, and deci… read more

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4. The Bear

By: Bernard Cohen , Claire Cameron , Aleid van Eekelen-Benders

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little br… read more

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5. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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6. Vintage Contemporaries

By: Dan Kois

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New Yor… read more

Similar categories in Dan Kois's Vintage Contemporaries book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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8. Orphans of the Storm

By: Celia Imrie

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author and celebrated actress Celia Imrie, an epic novel set again… read more

Similar categories in Celia Imrie's Orphans of the Storm book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leary's I've Tried Being Nice: Essays book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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10. Self-Portrait with Nothing

By: Aimee Pokwatka

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s fron… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more

Similar categories in Bret Anthony Johnston's We Burn Daylight book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Trials of Lila Dalton

By: L.J. Shepherd

3.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I look up to find twelve strangers staring back at me… and I realize I'm the one they're waiting fo… read more

Similar categories in L.J. Shepherd's The Trials of Lila Dalton book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Big Door Prize

By: M.O. Walsh

3.44

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

A mysterious machine upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is … read more

Similar categories in M.O. Walsh's The Big Door Prize book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If you're going to marry a man, make sure you like the drunk version of him, too. You're marrying more than one person...That's what some couples don't realize. When you get married, you're marrying …"

-M.O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize

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14. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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16. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Houses of the Unholy book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • fiction
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17. Lucky's Beach

By: Shelley Noble

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble takes her readers on another beach adventure where … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Noble's Lucky's Beach book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult
  • fiction
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18. The Bright Sword

By: Lev Grossman

4.06

Format: 673 pages, Hardcover

A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more

Similar categories in Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

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19. The Melancholy of Untold History

By: Minsoo Kang

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold Hi… read more

Similar categories in Minsoo Kang's The Melancholy of Untold History book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Bang-Bang Sisters

By: Rio Youers

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass … read more

Similar categories in Rio Youers's The Bang-Bang Sisters book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Dissonance

By: Shaun Hamill

3.99

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters comes an epic contemporary fantasy: a story of… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Hamill's The Dissonance book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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22. 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 Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • 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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23. 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 Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

24. The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

By: Juliet Grames

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Treasure Hunters Club

By: Tom Ryan

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club—a rollickin… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ryan's The Treasure Hunters Club book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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26. Nine Shiny Objects

By: Brian Castleberry

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era t… read more

Similar categories in Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Am I Nothing?

By: Vladimir Gandelman

3.88

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

These short stories will touch your heart. read more

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Cover of Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Dan Kois

28. Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

By: Dan Kois

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From the author of the Washington Post notable novel Vintage Contemporaries, something completely … read more

Similar categories in Dan Kois's Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Karla's Choice

By: Nick Harkaway

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Big Love and War Horse by Shallen Anne Chitwood

30. Big Love and War Horse

By: Shallen Anne Chitwood

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

"Big Love and War Horse, by Shallen Anne Chitwood, is a compelling novel that captivates readers wi… read more

Similar categories in Shallen Anne Chitwood's Big Love and War Horse book and Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • fiction
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31. 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 Brian Castleberry's Nine Shiny Objects

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Shotgun Lovesongs

Nickolas Butler

3.66

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Robin Kirman

4.30

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Dan Kois

3.55

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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Jahmal Mayfield

3.98

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

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Matt Query

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Rob Hart

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