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If you loved Train Dreams

Books like Train Dreams

If you loved Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Bettina Abarbanell, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Jesus' Son

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No. 2

Tenth of December

George Saunders

No. 3

Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

No. 4

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

No. 5

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

George Saunders

No. 6

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

No. 7

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

No. 8

The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt, Marcelo Barbão

No. 9

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

No. 10

True Grit

Charles Portis

No. 11

Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill

No. 12

Netherland

Joseph O'Neill

No. 13

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

No. 14

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

No. 15

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

No. 16

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch

No. 17

The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides

No. 18

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver

No. 19

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

No. 20

Open City

Teju Cole

No. 21

A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers

No. 22

The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers

No. 23

Home

Toni Morrison

No. 24

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway