5 must-read classics books like Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

Cover of Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera…

"Only."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

If you liked the classics plot in Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

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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  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • southern
  • fiction
  • 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. The Victim

By: Saul Bellow

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Asa Leventhal, a Jewish magazine editor, is accused by an old acquaintance of ruining his life read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings by Joyce Carol Oates, Carson McCullers, Margarita G. Smith

3. The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Carson McCullers , Margarita G. Smith

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
Cover of Conversations With Capote by James A. Michener, Lawrence Grobel

4. Conversations With Capote

By: James A. Michener , Lawrence Grobel

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Who but Truman Capote would dare to say thatabout (among many, many others) Jacqueline Onassis, Nor… read more

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  • queer

5. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

By: George Plimpton

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the gl… read more

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  • literature
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6. Cruel Optimism

By: Lauren Berlant

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flour… read more

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7. A House in the Country

By: José Donoso

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

Games turn to nightmares during the summer holidays at the magnificent Chilean country estate of th… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

8. Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms book and Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms

  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • southern
  • fiction
  • southern gothic
  • queer
"Only."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

9. City of Night

By: John Rechy

3.85

Format: 128 pages,

When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a na… read more

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10. Teorema

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

4.26

Format: None pages,

Una novela en la que los sentimientos, los pensamientos y las convicciones morales y religiosas ocu… read more

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11. The Member of the Wedding

By: Carson McCullers

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brot… read more

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12. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • fiction
  • queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

13. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more

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14. The City and the Pillar

By: Gore Vidal

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A literary cause celebrewhen first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic Th… read more

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15. Dancer from the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more

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16. Capote

By: Gerald Clarke

5.00

Format: None pages,

From instant celebrity at age 23 to alcoholic loner by mid-life, Truman Capote streaked across the … read more

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17. Monkey Bridge

By: Lan Cao

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridgecharts the unmapped terr… read more

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18. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

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  • literature
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

19. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

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Cover of Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn

20. Carson McCullers: A Life

By: Mary V. Dearborn

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on … read more

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Cover of Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill by Stephen Greco

21. Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill

By: Stephen Greco

3.71

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

“Fans of Capote and the era of Camelot should be delighted.” —Shana Abé, New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • fiction

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Flannery O'Connor

3.83

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Saul Bellow

3.55

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Joyce Carol Oates , Carson McCullers , Margarita G. Smith

3.93

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José Donoso

3.32

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Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Toni Morrison

4.12

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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