21 must-read fiction books like Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass

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Similar categories in Halle Butler's Jillian book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

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

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• novels

"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• 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

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• 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

Similar categories in Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• horror
• adult
• audiobook

"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• 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

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Salt Slow book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• horror

"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• horror
• adult
• audiobook

"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Girls Against God book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• horror
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

Similar categories in Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I began to picture the world without me in it."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• 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

Similar categories in Halle Butler's The New Me book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• mental health
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• mental health
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• dark
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• horror
• adult

Similar categories in Lara Williams's Supper Club book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

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

"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

Similar categories in Jessica Gross's Hysteria book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• mental health
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Madeline Docherty's Gender Theory book and Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook