Books like One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
12 books with a reading profile close to One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Strange Library
accessible, literary
A boy stops at the municipal library on his way home from school to return some books and ends up in a windowless basement reading room.
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2
Faeries
by Brian Froud
accessible, literary
Brian Froud and Alan Lee present a biological and historical survey of the inhabitants of the British Isles’ invisible realms.
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3
Higglety pigglety pop! ; and, Where the wild things are
by Maurice Sendak, Oliver Knussen
accessible, literary
This volume contains the librettos and production designs for two operas based on Maurice Sendak’s picture books.
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4
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
accessible, literary
This short story collection presents surreal scenarios as metaphors for the complexities of modern intimacy.
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5
Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
literary, experimental
Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
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6
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
literary, experimental
In the late 1960s, Charles Bukowski wrote a weekly column for the underground newspaper Open City in Los Angeles, and this book collects those pieces.
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7
A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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8
Vladimir
accessible, literary
A popular English professor at a small liberal arts college faces a social crisis when her husband, the chair of the department, is investigated for past sexual misconduct with students.
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9
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
by Tom Robbins
literary, experimental
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormously oversized thumbs, a biological anomaly she utilizes to become the greatest hitchhiker in the United States.
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10
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
literary, experimental
Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a background actor trapped in the repetitive hierarchy of a procedural television show titled Black and White.
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11
Mercy
by Jodi Picoult
accessible, literary
Cam MacDonald is a police chief in a small Massachusetts town, and he is happily married to his wife Allie.
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12
Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
literary, experimental
Twelve-year-old Noah Gardner, known as Bird, lives in a future America governed by PACT: the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act.
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