18 best-selling fiction books like Onlookers: Stories by Ann Beattie

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Onlookers: Stories

By: Ann Beattie

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a brilliant collection of linked stories …

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1. Thunderstruck & Other Stories

By: Elizabeth McCracken

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more

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2. Onlookers: Stories

By: Ann Beattie

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a brilliant collection of linked stories … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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4. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • fiction
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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6. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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8. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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9. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Ann Beattie's Onlookers: Stories

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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10. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • fiction
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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12. Witness: Stories

By: Jamel Brinkley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."

-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories

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13. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. Hope

By: Andrew Ridker

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Be Mine

By: Richard Ford

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Zero-Sum: Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acc… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. The Imposters

By: Tom Rachman

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. S… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

By: Natalie Dykstra

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Dykstra's Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner book and Ann Beattie's Onlookers: Stories

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19. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • fiction
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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20. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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