The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M…
Want to Read $ 11.99"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
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1. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- fantasy
"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
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
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"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
3. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
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
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"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
5. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
6. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"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
7. 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
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
"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
8. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
"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
9. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"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
10. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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- literary fiction
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
11. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
"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
12. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
13. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
"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
14. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"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
15. Bonding
By: Maggie Siebert
4.13
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- horror
16. Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
17. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- contemporary
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
18. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
19. The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Missouri Williams's The Doloriad book and Missouri Williams's The Doloriad
- gothic
- literary fiction
- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- novels
- fantasy
- science fiction
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
20. 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
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- literary fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- horror
"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
