Adam Wilson





Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
October 2026

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Fail Sons
 
Novels
   Flatscreen (2012)
   Sensation Machines (2020)
   Fail Sons (2026)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Soft Thunder (2014)
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Books containing stories by Adam Wilson
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The Best American Short Stories 2012 (2012)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Tom Perrotta

Adam Wilson recommends
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Nymph (2026)
Sofia Montrone
"In Nymph, Sofia Montrone travels with sure-footed grace through two lush and flourishing locales: the mountains of Northern Italy, and the interior landscape of its young protagonist. While the spaces it explores may be untamed, Montrone's lyrical prose is masterfully precise. Nymph is a dazzling debut that captures the dizzying intensity of first love."
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The Shimmering State (2021)
Meredith Westgate
"Like an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for the #MeToo era, The Shimmering State is a riveting, nuanced, and ultimately haunting meditation on the triangular relationship between sense, memory, and identity. There must be something in the California air because, like Joan Didion, Meredith Westgate has an extraordinary ear, not only for the stories we tell ourselves in order to live, but for the ways that we endlessly revise them to suit the new selves we continue to construct."
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Daughters of the Wild (2020)
Natalka Burian
"Daughters of the Wild is that rare thing, a gorgeously written and richly imagined page-turner that plows full speed across your heart. Writers like Karen Russell, Joy Williams, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez spring to mind, but Natalka Burian's voice is her own: lyrical, spunky, and defiantly untamed. It's a voice we'll be reading for a long time to come."

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