16 best-selling novels books like The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

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The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but …

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1. The Optimist's Daughter

By: Eudora Welty

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels

2. Tinkers

By: Paul Harding

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildr… read more

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3. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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4. Trust

By: Hernan Diaz

3.83

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

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5. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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6. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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7. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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11. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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12. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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13. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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14. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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15. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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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16. Demon Copperhead

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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17. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy book and Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus

  • politics
  • israel
  • audiobook
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18. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

19. The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • israel
  • jewish
  • literature
  • politics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. Monkey Boy

By: Francisco Goldman

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

18 Top fiction books like The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

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The Optimist's Daughter

Eudora Welty

3.98

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

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The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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20 Best fiction books like Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

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Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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James

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4.54

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Daniel Mason

4.15

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