17 Best adult books like The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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The Glass Hotel

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.69

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering inters…

"There’s an inherent pleasure in being unseen."

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"It’s possible to both know and not know something."

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives"

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)"

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

If you liked the adult plot in The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more

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2. Trust

By: Hernan Diaz

3.83

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more

Similar categories in Hernan Diaz's Trust book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

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3. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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4. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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6. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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9. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

Cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

10. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.15

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Friendship,"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"How I will miss the horses."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"You try again. You fail better."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"There are no ghosts, but up here"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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11. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Cover of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

12. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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13. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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14. Demon Copperhead

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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15. Wellness

By: Nathan Hill

4.00

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Hill's Wellness book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

Cover of The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

16. The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

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17. Cloud Cuckoo Land

By: Anthony Doerr

4.26

Format: 626 pages, Hardcover

When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive. How do we weather the end of things? Clo… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

18. The Glass Hotel

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.69

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering inters… read more

Similar categories in Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There’s an inherent pleasure in being unseen."

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"It’s possible to both know and not know something."

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives"

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)"

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

Cover of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

19. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

20. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Cover of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

21. How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more

Similar categories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark book and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Death has become a way of life"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Life is always easier for boys."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"She always preferred celestial objects to people."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

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