At the Bottom of Everything

8 best books like At the Bottom of Everything (Ben Dolnick): Trust Exercise, Vacuum in the Dark, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Probable Future, Music for Wartime: Stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, Why Religion?: A Personal Story, Tell Me You're Mine: The chilling international bestseller

Trust Exercise

Author	Susan Choi
ISBN	1250309883

Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...

Vacuum in the Dark

Author	Jen Beagin
ISBN	1501182145

From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.

Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for...

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Author	Michael Chabon
ISBN	0060790598

The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity.

Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art...

The Probable Future

Author	Alice Hoffman
ISBN	0345455916

Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date—three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.

Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s...

Music for Wartime: Stories

Author	Rebecca Makkai
ISBN	0525426698

Named a must-read by the  Chicago Tribune , O Magazine,  BuzzFeed ,  The Huffington Post ,  Minneapolis Star-Tribune , and The L Magazine

Named one of the best short story collections of 2015 by Bookpage and Kansas City Star

Rebecca Makkai’s first two novels,...

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces

Author	Angela Carter
ISBN	1844083675

The stories in this collection aren't simply Gothic. They are full of darkness without any source of light. Full of dark, ominous sexuality and murderous impulses. The set is primarily a tapestry of Japanese lore and urban wanderings, vindictive geishas lurking in the lantern-lit backstreets of...

Why Religion?: A Personal Story

Author	Elaine Pagels
ISBN	0062368559

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...

Tell Me You're Mine: The chilling international bestseller

Author	Elisabeth Noreback
ISBN	0749023791

20 Years ago Stella lost her daughter. She went missing from her pram and they never determined what happened to her. There was never a body recovered and Stella has never had closer. She always felt Alice was still alive and vowed she would finder one day.

She now is happily married with a son,...