The New World

5 best books like The New World (Chris Adrian): The Third Hotel, Lit, Museum of Accidents, Live Wire, The Albertine Workout

The Third Hotel
AuthorLaura van den Berg
ISBN0374168350
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their marriage―in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.

Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual...
Lit
AuthorMary Karr
ISBN0060596988
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—Mary Karr’s sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars’ Club and Cherry “lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).

Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel...
AuthorRachel Zucker
ISBN1933517425
"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X's likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer

Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and placing them directly in our laps, Museum of Accidents is a brutally...
Live Wire
AuthorHarlan Coben
ISBN0525952063
#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben proves once again that "nobody writes them better" in a thriller that asks a provocative question: Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth?

Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero...
The Albertine Workout
AuthorAnne Carson
ISBN0811223175
I have no idea what this is. I can describe it just fine: 59 fragments about Albertine from Proust's RduTP, with 16 fragments a little less connected to her. If that sounds like not much, well, you're probably right. Of course, Proust readers will be excited. Quite right to be so.

The take-away,...
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