6 Top thriller books like Stay Awake by Dan Chaon

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Stay Awake

By: Dan Chaon

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply andYou Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a na…

If you liked the thriller plot in Stay Awake by Dan Chaon , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz

4.08

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction! Benjamin Alire Saenz's stories reveal how all bo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Make Room! Make Room!

By: Harry Harrison

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system-… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Writing My Wrongs

By: Shaka Senghor

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

In 1991, at the age of nineteen, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was a young drug dealer wi… read more

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4. Stay Awake

By: Dan Chaon

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply andYou Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a na… read more

Similar categories in Dan Chaon's Stay Awake book and Dan Chaon's Stay Awake

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller

5. Revenge

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from… read more

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6. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more

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7. Corpus Christi: Stories

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

From an acclaimed and award-winning young writer comes an intensely moving debut collection set in … read more

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8. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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9. When Mystical Creatures Attack!

By: Kathleen Founds

0.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman's high school English class writes essays in which… read more

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10. Broken Monsters

By: Lauren Beukes

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit's stan… read more

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11. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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12. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

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  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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14. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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15. Florida

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its lan… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently. Well, okay, she can't disagree."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

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16. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

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  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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17. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Ghostwritten book and Dan Chaon's Stay Awake

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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18. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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19. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

By: Richard Flanagan

3.71

Format: 240 pages, ebook

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three chil… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Imposter

By: Marin Montgomery

3.63

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Amazon bestselling author of What We Forgot to Bury comes a twisted psychological tale of … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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21. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

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  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction

14 best-selling fiction books like Stay Awake by Dan Chaon

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

4.08

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Make Room! Make Room!

Harry Harrison

3.44

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Dan Chaon

3.67

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If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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The Choke

Sofie Laguna

3.59

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Ceridwen Dovey

4.14

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Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

3.85

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Juan José Millás

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