13 Best horror books like A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

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A Touch of Jen

By: Beth Morgan

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the…

"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

If you liked the horror plot in A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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3. My Husband

By: Maud Ventura

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's My Husband book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"

-Maud Ventura, My Husband

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4. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • audiobook
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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5. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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6. Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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7. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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8. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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9. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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10. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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11. The Pisces

By: Melissa Broder

3.30

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from th… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's The Pisces book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life."

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"He took off my flip-flops and began kissing my feet, sucking my toes."

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"Feelings were a luxory of the young, or someone much stronger than me - someone more at ease with being human"

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"I'd been wrong about death ... There was no gentle escape. When I had taken those Ambien in Phoenix I thought there was a peaceful way to just kind of disappear. But death wasn't gentle. It was a rob…"

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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12. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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14. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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15. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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17. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

Cover of A Touch of Jen by Beth  Morgan

18. A Touch of Jen

By: Beth Morgan

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more

Similar categories in Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

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19. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

Cover of All's Well by Mona Awad

20. All's Well

By: Mona Awad

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's All's Well book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

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21. The New Me

By: Halle Butler

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's The New Me book and Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

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Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval

3.55

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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