5 Best audiobook books like You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

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You Know You Want This

By: Kristen Roupenian

3.62

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny…

"I'm a nice guy, I swear to fucking God."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"She wants what she wants," Kath says. Don't we all?"

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"Frankly, the whole concept was a little too New Age—y for me."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"He had no faith in love's capacity to cause him anything but pain."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

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Cover of Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties: Stories book and Kristen Roupenian's You Know You Want This

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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2. Conjunto vacío

By: Verónica Gerber Bicecci

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Conjunto vacio cuenta la historia de Veronica, hija de exiliados argentinos, que vive en la Ciudad … read more

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  • fiction

3. Five Moral Pieces

By: Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Embracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to … read more

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4. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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5. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in "The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares" Joyce Ca… read more

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6. Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

By: Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“Arkamda yaylılar çalıyor. Biri bir filmde ya da dizide gururla yürüdüğünde çaldığı gibi. Hep hüzün… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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8. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and Kristen Roupenian's You Know You Want This

  • feminism
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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9. Bir Ada İcat Etmek

By: Alain Gillot

4.18

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Çin’de bir şantiyede çalışırken, yedi yaşındaki oğlu Tom’un öldüğünü öğrenen Dani, haberi alır alma… read more

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10. The Appointment

By: Katharina Volckmer

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligma… read more

Similar categories in Katharina Volckmer's The Appointment book and Kristen Roupenian's You Know You Want This

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

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11. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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12. Gittersee

By: Charlotte Gneuß

3.89

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Jürgen Ponto-Preis 2023 1976, im Dresdner Vorort Gittersee: Karin ist 16, … read more

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  • fiction
"Ein älterer Mann stand um die Ecke und rauchte. Er zwinkerte mir zu. Sie haben da was am Auge, rief ich ihm zu, so Zuckungen, würd ich behandeln lassen."

-Charlotte Gneuß, Gittersee

Cover of You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

13. You Know You Want This

By: Kristen Roupenian

3.62

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Roupenian's You Know You Want This book and Kristen Roupenian's You Know You Want This

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • short story collection
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm a nice guy, I swear to fucking God."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"She wants what she wants," Kath says. Don't we all?"

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"Frankly, the whole concept was a little too New Age—y for me."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"He had no faith in love's capacity to cause him anything but pain."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

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14. Modern Times

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.19

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A woman orders a sex doll for her husband’s birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Modern Times book and Kristen Roupenian's You Know You Want This

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. De verworvenheden

By: Jan van Tienen

3.69

Format: None pages, None

De verworvenheden, of hoe je iemand wordt die ernaar verlangt op het eiland Hompelvoet te zijn doet… read more

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16. Al final del miedo

By: Cecilia Eudave

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Cecilia Eudave es una referencia en el género de lo insólito y lo fantásticos en la literatura mexi… read more

Similar categories in Cecilia Eudave's Al final del miedo book and Kristen Roupenian's You Know You Want This

  • short stories
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17. Lost Cat

By: Mary Gaitskill

4.09

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

‘Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is pr… read more

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"Who decides which… deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little? Is it a matter of numbers or physical mass or intelligence? If you are a little creature or a littl…"

-Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat

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18. Sadistas

By: Asta Padagaitė

3.52

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

„Visi vienodai liūdi, vienodai myli ir vienodai šika. Visi nori meilės ir visi būna vieniši. Visi v… read more

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19. La península de las casas vacías

By: David Uclés

4.47

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

UNA NOVELA SOBRE TODA LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA EN CLAVE DE REALISMO MÁGICO. La historia de un so… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Małe pająki

By: Łukasz Barys

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

(Nie)zwykłe życie. Miłość, literatura i poszukiwanie własnej drogi. Nowa powieść laureata Paszpo… read more

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  • fiction
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21. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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3.84

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3.59

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Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

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3.35

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3.78

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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