18 must-read fiction books like Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe

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Chrysalis

By: Anna Metcalfe

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society…

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1. 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 Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • 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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2. 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 Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • 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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3. Museo di un amore infranto

By: Fabrizio Bonetto

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

A Zagabria c’è un museo che accoglie i ricordi di chi ha un amore fallito di cui disfarsi. È il Mus… read more

Similar categories in Fabrizio Bonetto's Museo di un amore infranto book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

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4. 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

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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6. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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7. 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

Similar categories in Effie Black's In Defence of the Act book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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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8. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

Similar categories in Chetna Maroo's Western Lane book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

Similar categories in Hanako Footman's Mongrel book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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10. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • 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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12. The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more

Similar categories in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi's The Centre book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Nursery

By: Szilvia Molnar

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more

Similar categories in Szilvia Molnar's The Nursery book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I want you as much as I fear you"

-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

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14. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

Similar categories in Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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15. Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria

By: Sara Marzullo

3.48

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

«Ero triste, di una tristezza vischiosa e pervasiva, come melassa o incenso. E soprattutto, era cos… read more

Similar categories in Sara Marzullo's Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • feminism
  • contemporary
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16. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
Cover of Tutto il bello che ci aspetta by Lorenza Gentile

17. Tutto il bello che ci aspetta

By: Lorenza Gentile

3.86

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Viviamo in un’epoca in cui niente è impossibile, dunque se le cose non vanno dev’essere per forza c… read more

Similar categories in Lorenza Gentile's Tutto il bello che ci aspetta book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • fiction
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18. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Waidner's Corey Fah Does Social Mobility book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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19. Chrysalis

By: Anna Metcalfe

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society… read more

Similar categories in Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Coiled Serpent

By: Camilla Grudova

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more

Similar categories in Camilla Grudova's The Coiled Serpent book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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3.56

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3.90

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3.68

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4.14

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