Books like Trout Fishing in America
A series of short, odd pieces in which the phrase 'Trout Fishing in America' becomes a person, a hotel, a place and a way of life, Brautigan's gentle, sideways picture of the country in the 1960s.
Explore books like this on the map12 books for readers of Trout Fishing in America
In Watermelon Sugar
In a small commune called iDEATH, where everything is built from watermelon sugar and the sun shines a different colour each day, a nameless narrator writes about his calm life and the trouble at the Forgotten Works.
Another Roadside Attraction
A countercultural couple runs a hot dog stand and a flea circus, until the mummified body of Christ shows up in their basement.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A woman with abnormally large thumbs hitchhikes from Virginia to the Dakotas on a quest involving cowgirls, whooping cranes, and the meaning of freedom.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.
Death Valley
With her father in intensive care after an accident, a novelist from Los Angeles checks into a Best Western in Death Valley to hike alone, and the desert begins to open up in ways she cannot explain.
The Book of Questions
Neruda's last book: seventy-four short poems made entirely of questions, such as why trees conceal the splendour of their roots.
My City: A Hong Kong Story
Ah Gor, a young man just out of school, takes a job with the telephone company and wanders Hong Kong, in a playful, childlike portrait of the city in the 1970s.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chief Bromden, a huge Native American patient who pretends to be deaf and mute, watches Randle McMurphy, a charismatic new arrival, take on the ward's tyrannical Nurse Ratched.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
Get in Trouble
Nine stories in which ordinary people meet the uncanny, from a girl who keeps house for the uncanny summer people up the hill to a fading star of vampire movies filming a ghost-hunting show.