9 must-read fiction books like Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

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Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l…

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1. The Prophet's Hair

By: Salman Rushdie

3.60

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasur… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Contingency (Sage Hannigan Time Warper, #1) by Peggy Martinez, P.S. Martinez

2. Contingency (Sage Hannigan Time Warper, #1)

By: Peggy Martinez , P.S. Martinez

3.90

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Eighteen-year-old Sage Hannigan wants to get back to her own time, preferably one that hasn’t been … read more

Similar categories in Peggy Martinez's Contingency (Sage Hannigan Time Warper, #1) book and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes by Joan Silber

3. The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

By: Joan Silber

3.88

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan… read more

Similar categories in Joan Silber's The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes book and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

  • literature
  • literary fiction
"Length is weight in fiction, pretty much."

-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

"Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important."

-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

"A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate."

-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

"A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means."

-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

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4. Legacy

By: Jeanette Baker

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In Scotland to claim a castle she has inherited, professor Christina Murray meets the handsome man … read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Baker's Legacy book and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

  • historical fiction
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5. Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

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6. Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (The Company, #4.5) by Kage Baker

7. Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (The Company, #4.5)

By: Kage Baker

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more

Similar categories in Martin Amis's Time's Arrow book and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • holocaust

9. Transmission

By: Hari Kunzru

3.33

Format: 140 pages,

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10. The Corridors of Time

By: Poul Anderson

4.08

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

(from the back of the book) A power struggle for time itself. The corridors of time connect the age… read more

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11. The Dumb Waiter

By: Harold Pinter

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

One of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and… read more

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  • fiction

12. Innocents and Others

By: Dana Spiotta

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became film-makers. Meadow … read more

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13. A Moment in Time

By: Deb Stover

3.57

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Alone in a Rocky Mountain cabin, hairdresser Jackie Clarke wonders if a bad hair day can get any wo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

14. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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15. A Gathering of Old Men

By: Ernest J. Gaines

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Paperback

Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Menis a powerful depiction… read more

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16. Traveler (Traveler #1)

By: L.E. DeLano

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Jessa has spent her life dreaming of other worlds and writing down stories more interesting than he… read more

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Cover of The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) by Barry Kirwan

17. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

By: Barry Kirwan

4.23

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more

Similar categories in Barry Kirwan's The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) book and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

  • novels
  • fiction
"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

Cover of Get the Boy, Own the Future by Gabriel F.W. Koch

18. Get the Boy, Own the Future

By: Gabriel F.W. Koch

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In the distant future, climate change and pole shifts have nearly destroyed life on earth. Time tra… read more

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19. La sindrome di Ræbenson

By: Giuseppe Quaranta

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Antonio Deltito è uno psichiatra, «un uomo alto e sgraziato» che ricorda, al narratore di questa st… read more

Similar categories in Giuseppe Quaranta's La sindrome di Ræbenson book and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

  • fiction
Cover of Il periodo del silenzio by Francesca Manfredi

20. Il periodo del silenzio

By: Francesca Manfredi

3.73

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Cristina Martino ha ventotto anni, è laureata in Archeologia e lavora, precaria, in una biblioteca … read more

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21. Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age

By: Robert L. Stone

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Righ… read more

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Peggy Martinez , P.S. Martinez

3.90

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Jeanette Baker

3.74

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3.89

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Jennifer Foehner Wells

3.83

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J.H. Walker

3.60

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Danielle Bourdon , Kimberly Hoyt

5.00

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3.48

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