7 must-read queer books like One's Company by Ashley Hutson

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One's Company

By: Ashley Hutson

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read…

"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckoning you forward. And you’re forever living in it, or going toward it."

-Ashley Hutson, One's Company

If you liked the queer plot in One's Company by Ashley Hutson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Perfume & Pain by Anna  Dorn

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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • 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

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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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • 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

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6. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • 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. 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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"¿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

Cover of Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha  Allen

10. 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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Fruit of the Dead by Rachel  Lyon

11. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
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12. 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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • 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

Cover of A Touch of Jen by Beth  Morgan

13. 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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

14. 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 Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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 The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

15. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Simard's The Country Will Bring Us No Peace book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma

16. Everything You Ever Wanted

By: Luiza Sauma

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy mee… read more

Similar categories in Luiza Sauma's Everything You Ever Wanted book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of One's Company by Ashley Hutson

17. One's Company

By: Ashley Hutson

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Hutson's One's Company book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"

-Ashley Hutson, One's Company

Cover of Carnality by Lina Wolff

18. Carnality

By: Lina Wolff

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for i… read more

Similar categories in Lina Wolff's Carnality book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Ada rose even more in my estimation at that. I realized she had got completely lost in the male narrative and her mind, which had to be both sensitive and sharp, had been absorbing fragments of it he…"

-Lina Wolff, Carnality

Cover of A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig

19. A Devil Comes to Town

By: Paolo Maurensig

3.53

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Absorbed by Kylie Whitehead

20. Absorbed

By: Kylie Whitehead

3.73

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Allison has been with Owen since university. She's given up on writing her novel and is working a d… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Whitehead's Absorbed book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

21. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Ashley Hutson's One's Company

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

21 must-read fiction books like One's Company by Ashley Hutson

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

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Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

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Such Small Hands

Edmund White , Andrés Barba , Lisa Dillman

4.04

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Maud Ventura

3.68

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