6 Top fiction books like The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates

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The Falls

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself in…

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1. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway

By: Sara Gran

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited second book in the buzzed-about Claire DeWitt mystery series, featuring "one of… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Back to Blood

By: Tom Wolfe , Lou Diamond Phillips

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Promised to the Crown

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.09

Format: 148 pages,

In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. Runyan masterfully blends fact and fiction to explore the… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Falls

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself in… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. After Her

By: Joyce Maynard

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters returns with a warm and h… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

6. Lost in the Forest

By: Sue Miller

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother,Sue Miller… read more

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7. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

By: Oscar Hijuelos

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

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8. The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

By: Jefferson Morley

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"The best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived." - Tim Weiner, National B… read more

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9. A Permanent Member of the Family

By: Russell Banks

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A masterly collection of new stories from Russell Banks, acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter an… read more

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10. Deux gouttes d'eau

By: Jacques Expert

3.99

Format: 284 pages,

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11. Drop City

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle , Richard Poe

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple … read more

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12. Young Adolf

By: Beryl Bainbridge

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Young Adolf was published in 1978 and was Beryl Bainbridge's first and only historical novel until … read more

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13. Passage West

By: Ruth Ryan Langan

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Kindle Edition

At seventeen, Abby Market left the only home she'd ever known--Missouri--in a covered wagon bound f… read more

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14. The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination

By: Scott Donaldson , Harold Frederic , None

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of th… read more

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15. Living Alone

By: None

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist travel writer and novelist. Stella was noted for … read more

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16. Ironweed

By: William Kennedy

3.68

Format: 336 pages,

Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he… read more

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17. Wolf Among Wolves

By: Hans Fallada , Philip Owens

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Wolf Among Wolvesis a sprawling saga of the collapse of a culture - its economy and government - an… read more

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18. Mohawk

By: Richard Russo

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series--and reissued now in ha… read more

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19. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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20. Comment ça va pas ? : Conversations après le 7 octobre (essai français) (French Edition)

By: Delphine Horvilleur

4.26

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Fracassée comme tant d’autres après le massacre perpétré par le Hamas le 7 octobre 2023 en Israël, … read more

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21. Bli utan

By: Ellen Strömberg

3.48

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Barnlöshet, barnfrihet och livskris med strömbergsk kärv värme. Jag kunde ingenting. Jag kunde … read more

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4.23

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Salomé Saqué

4.55

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Lola Lafon

4.40

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