10 best-selling novels books like Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers

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Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's mo…

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1. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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  • classics
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  • literature
  • southern
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  • southern gothic
"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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2. Nightfall

By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning… read more

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  • novels
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3. The Land Breakers

By: John Ehle

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

A motley band of characters makes its way into a high mountain valley in northwestern North Carolin… read more

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  • southern
  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels
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4. Intruder in the Dust

By: William Faulkner

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • southern
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  • novels
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5. Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's mo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • novels
  • literature
  • southern
  • fiction
  • southern gothic
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6. Songs in Ordinary Time

By: Mary McGarry Morris

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

Songs in Ordinary Timeis set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocenc… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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7. The American

By: Henry James , Lee Clark Mitchell

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction

8. The Child in Time

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his onl… read more

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9. The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

By: Truman Capote , Reynolds Price

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his "g… read more

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10. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A New York Review Books Original Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manha… read more

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11. A Prayer for the Dying

By: Stewart O'Nan

3.69

Format: 32 pages,

Set just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dyingis the story of a small Wisconsin town gripped … read more

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12. Memento Mori

By: Muriel Spark

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more

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13. Bastard Out of Carolina

By: Dorothy Allison

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, … read more

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14. Broken for You

By: Stephanie Kallos

3.23

Format: 304 pages,

National best seller and Todayshow Book Club selection, Broken for Youis the story of two women in … read more

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15. Prayers the Devil Answers

By: Sharyn McCrumb , Candace Thaxton

4.10

Format: None pages, Audio

Sharyn McCrumb, New York Timesbestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad series, examines one of th… read more

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16. Melancholy

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls , None

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but t… read more

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17. A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life"and expresses the way Lawr… read more

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18. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Lovesh… read more

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19. Texasville

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

With Texasville,Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his… read more

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20. Solitude

By: David H. Rosenthal , Víctor Català

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

"Solitude" tells the story of Mila, a peasant girl who makes the mistake of marrying an ineffectual… read more

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21. Evening in Byzantium

By: Irwin Shaw

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Honest men and thieves, pimps, panderers and men of virtue: they were all gamblers in a game with n… read more

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22. Acceptable Losses

By: Irwin Shaw

4.05

Format: 12 pages,

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23. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

By: Simon Schama

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Instead of a dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital & inventive, infatuated … read more

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24. A casa teníem un himne

By: Maria Climent

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

La Remei té més de quaranta anys, està casada i té un fill, treballa moltes hores a l’hospital i es… read more

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  • fiction
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25. La conformista

By: Alba Dedeu

3.53

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Eva y Pere venden pollos al ast y huelen a fritanga de pies a cabeza. Eva no se resigna: se lava el… read more

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"Al final lo dejamos estar, nos quedamos abrazados en la penumbra, cada uno con un zumbido de frustraciones secretas en la cabeza que quizá se parecían mucho"

-Alba Dedeu, La conformista

"Pero no te fustigues ahora, que aún no has hecho nada malo, ¿Por qué me parece, entonces, que voy a comprar 150 gramos de ibérico para hacerme perdonar algo?"

-Alba Dedeu, La conformista

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26. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

By: Jenn Shapland

4.09

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more

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27. Ocàs i fascinació

By: Eva Baltasar

3.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Flotes, això és el màxim que has aconseguit. Tens mitja feina, una habitació rellogada i un títol q… read more

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  • fiction
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28. A les dues seran les tres

By: Sergi Pàmies

3.63

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Als contes d A les dues seran les tres, la memòria es converteix en revisió de l experiència, la cr… read more

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Cover of Buck's Pantry: A Novel by Khristin Wierman

29. Buck's Pantry: A Novel

By: Khristin Wierman

4.00

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

“Buck’s Pantry is a surprising tale of intrigue and suspense, and a perfect example of how three da… read more

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30. Falsa liebre

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

La oscuridad del puerto lo envuelve todo. Pachi y Vinicio se adentran en la playa, van camino a una… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"El dolor abrasaba su pecho; apenas podía respirar. Los ojos se le llenaron de lágrimas y eso lo avergonzó. Le hubiera gustado no tenerlos, no tener rostro, no tener cuerpo; ser invisible para la gent…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Falsa liebre

"El truco era mantener los ojos abiertos, la mirada fija, no pestañear, no pensar en nada, especialmente eso: no pensar en el dolor, no pensar en el significado de las palabras. Contenerlo todo en la …"

-Fernanda Melchor, Falsa liebre

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31. Garden by the Sea

By: Mercè Rodoreda

3.86

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

The novel that defined Mercè Rodoreda’s most prolific period is finally available in English for th… read more

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12 Top fiction books like Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers

Transform Your Habits

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

3.83

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Nightfall

Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Land Breakers

John Ehle

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Intruder in the Dust

William Faulkner

3.32

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Drowning Ruth

Christina Schwarz

3.74

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While I Was Gone

Sue Miller

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Vinegar Hill

A. Manette Ansay

3.39

Transform Your Habits

She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

4.02

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