Swamplandia!
By: Karen Russell
3.27
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla…
Want to Read $ 7.99"the gravity of wound to fist"-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
If you liked the fantasy plot in Swamplandia! by Karen Russell , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. Get in Trouble
By: Kelly Link
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
2. The Monsters of Templeton
By: Lauren Groff
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced i… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
3. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
4. Mr. Splitfoot
By: Samantha Hunt
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoottr… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
5. The Big Book of Exit Strategies
By: Jamaal May
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Praise for Jamaal May: "Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . . [Jamaal May's] po… read more
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6. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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7. The Tiger's Wife
By: Téa Obreht
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea Obreht, the youngest of The N… read more
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8. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
By: Susan Orlean
4.22
Format: 160 pages,
The Orchid Thiefis Susan Orlean's tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered f… read more
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9. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
10. Swamplandia!
By: Karen Russell
3.27
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Karen Russell's Swamplandia! book and Karen Russell's Swamplandia!
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"the gravity of wound to fist"-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
11. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
12. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
13. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
14. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
15. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
16. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
17. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
18. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
By: Diane Seuss
4.41
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
19. The Fall of the House of Usher: And Other Stories That Inspired the Netflix Series
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deluxe anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Ush… read more
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- fiction
20. The Legend of the Last Library
By: Frank L. Cole
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What if you lived in a world without books? After a devastating Blight killed off all the trees, p… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
21. Might Kindred (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By: Mónica Gomery
4.47
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist The poems of Might Kindred wonder can we belong to one a… read more
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