13 Top fiction books like number9dream by David Mitchell

Cover of number9dream by David Mitchell

number9dream

By: David Mitchell

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work…

If you liked the fiction plot in number9dream by David Mitchell , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories

By: Scarlett Thomas

4.16

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A manual for reading and writing better, from the acclaimed author of The End of Mr. Y and Our Trag… read more

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"Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather th…"

-Scarlett Thomas, Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories

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2. Wilderness Tips

By: Margaret Atwood

3.82

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole li… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, “Isis in Darkness."

-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips

"Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it."

-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips

"He will exist for her at least, he will be created by her, he will have a place in her mythology after all."

-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips

"Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same."

-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips

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3. Whit

By: Iain Banks

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. An innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions."

-Iain Banks, Whit

Cover of Vurt (Vurt, #1) by Lauren Beukes, Jeff Noon

4. Vurt (Vurt, #1)

By: Lauren Beukes , Jeff Noon

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly innovative and highly entertaining novel from a literary pioneer. Take a trip in a… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Murdoch's gun was the only thing in my life, the only thing worth living for. It gets like that sometimes, with instruments of death."

-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)

"The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game."

-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)

"...I pulled the feather out, jerking him away from the dream. Just like he used to do with me, when I went in alone. The play was shifting, and I knew how bad it felt, to have your dream dragged from…"

-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)

"He got one finger cut off when he was young... The cafe paid for a replacement, put some nano-plastic in there. The kid got hooked. It happens. You get some plastic in you, you just want some more...…"

-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)

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5. Triburbia

By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of the acclaimed memoir Boy Alone, delivers a stylish first novel about… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Blutbuch (Die Seiten der Welt, #3) by Kai Meyer

6. Blutbuch (Die Seiten der Welt, #3)

By: Kai Meyer

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Das grosse Finale: Das dritte Buch des Spiegel-Bestsellers DIE SEITEN DER WELT von Erfolgsautor Kai… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel

7. 1Q84

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Philip Gabriel

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmati… read more

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  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • japan
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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8. Een tafel vol vlinders

By: Tim Krabbé

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

En Bram was zijn zoon. Juist omdat hij het niet was - van je eigen zoon zou je verplicht zijn te ho… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of number9dream by David Mitchell

9. number9dream

By: David Mitchell

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's number9dream book and David Mitchell's number9dream

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • japan

10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more

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11. Great Jones Street

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relev… read more

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12. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

By: Beatrix Potter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Little pig Robinson goes to market for his aunts and, after a series of unexpected and amazing adve… read more

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13. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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14. Exterminator!

By: William S. Burroughs

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself… read more

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15. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more

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16. Telegraph Avenue

By: Michael Chabon

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, … read more

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17. Nachtland (Die Seiten der Welt, #2)

By: Kai Meyer

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Die Reise ins Herz der Bucherwelt Schon seit Wochen roch Furia nach Buchern: Sie war auf dem besten… read more

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18. The Steep Approach to Garbadale

By: Iain Banks

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the h… read more

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19. The Lover of the Grave (Lydmouth, #3)

By: Andrew Taylor

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A sheep farmer is found hanging from a tree at a crossroads outside the Welsh market town of Lydmou… read more

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20. Vacant Possession

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Lock your doors, barricade your windows: Muriel Axon is back in town. It's been ten years since she… read more

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21. A Perfectly Good Family

By: Lionel Shriver

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand… read more

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22. Pump Six and Other Stories

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short s… read more

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23. Skippy Dies

By: Paul Murray

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more

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24. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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25. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Hammer to Fall (Joe Wilderness #3) by John Lawton

26. Hammer to Fall (Joe Wilderness #3)

By: John Lawton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as goo… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Suffocating Night (Lydmouth #4) by Andrew  Taylor

27. The Suffocating Night (Lydmouth #4)

By: Andrew Taylor

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of XX by Rian Hughes

28. XX

By: Rian Hughes

3.88

Format: 992 pages, Hardcover

The battle for your mind has already begun.   At Jodrell Bank Observatory in England, a radio teles… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I am the product of countless other ideas that have incubated inside me. Over many years, they entered my mind through my senses, blown in from elsewhere because I left the shutters to my mind wide o…"

-Rian Hughes, XX

Cover of Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas

29. Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific

By: Nicholas Thomas

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this da… read more

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30. Negative Space

By: Gillian Linden

3.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Biomimetics: How Lessons From Nature Can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg

31. Biomimetics: How Lessons From Nature Can Transform Technology

By: Brian Clegg

3.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Biomimetics literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term covers technologica… read more

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9 must-read contemporary books like number9dream by David Mitchell

Transform Your Habits

Wilderness Tips

Margaret Atwood

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Whit

Iain Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Triburbia

Karl Taro Greenfeld

3.82

Transform Your Habits

1Q84

Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Philip Gabriel

3.35

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22 must-read historical fiction books like The Suffocating Night (Lydmouth #4) by Andrew Taylor

Transform Your Habits

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton (Alexander Seaton, #1)

Shona MacLean

3.72

Transform Your Habits

A Reluctant Assassin (Will Revill Thrillers #1)

John Pilkington

4.09

Transform Your Habits

A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

Richard Coles

3.90

Transform Your Habits

An Honourable Thief (Company of Rogues #1)

Douglas Skelton

4.09

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