15 Top fiction books like Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers by Benjamin Chee

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Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers

By: Benjamin Chee

3.68

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a menacing multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, mananangga…

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1. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • fiction
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3. In Defence of the Act

By: Effie Black

4.12

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more

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  • fiction
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

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4. The Formidable Miss Cassidy

By: Meihan Boey

4.05

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Winner of the 2022 Singapore Book Award for Bes… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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6. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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7. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers

By: Benjamin Chee

3.68

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a menacing multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, mananangga… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Dearest Intimate

By: Suchen Christine Lim

4.09

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

A multi-layered tale that explores the myriad facets of love, intimidation and reconciliationThe fa… read more

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10. Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

By: Phil Stutz

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Profound essays that cut through the messiness of life to help you get the good from the bad—by fam… read more

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11. The Off Season

By: Amber Cowie

3.36

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

For fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware, a destination thriller about a woman who accompanies her new … read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Guests

By: Nikki Smith

3.51

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The resort of their dreams. A destination to die for... WELCOME TO PARADISE! Or so the staff… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Blood on the Tracks (The Comeback Trail #2)

By: Guy Hale

4.45

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Jimmy Wayne is headed for LA to make the new album that will hopefully make him a star. In a quiet,… read more

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14. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. I Do… Don't I?

By: Zibu Sithole

4.00

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

I Do ... Don't I? is the much-anticipated sequel to the popular novel The Thing with Zola. It conti… read more

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16. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Thing with Zola: A Novel

By: Zibu Sithole

3.94

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty-nine-year-old Zola has spent the past ten years working and studying in Europe, thanks to a … read more

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18. Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more

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  • fiction
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

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19. The Palladium

By: Thorsten Brandl

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

A radio station that doesn't officially exist A mysterious circle whose members possess incredible… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"People always try to explain the things they don’t understand, and convert them into a form that fits with their beliefs, so they can cope with them. Over time, these things become legend, folklore, …"

-Thorsten Brandl, The Palladium

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20. The Eternal Shadow

By: Shameez Patel Papathanasiou

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

South African born, debut author brings a threat-and-danger, hidden-world fantasy with touches of S… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. Fish Eats Lion Redux

By: Jason Erik Lundberg

3.60

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In 2012, author and editor Jason Erik Lundberg released Fish Eats Lion, the first anthology of lite… read more

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8 must-read fantasy books like Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers by Benjamin Chee

Transform Your Habits

The Formidable Miss Cassidy

Meihan Boey

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Hera

Jennifer Saint

3.75

Transform Your Habits

A Magical Girl Retires

Park Seolyeon

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Throat an Open Grave

Tori Bovalino

3.84

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21 must-read fiction books like The Off Season by Amber Cowie

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One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Bad Tourists

Caro Carver

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Affair

Pip Drysdale

3.73

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