8 Top thriller books like Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

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Nightshift

By: Kiare Ladner

3.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compelling debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young …

If you liked the thriller plot in Nightshift by Kiare Ladner , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • 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. 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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • 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

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3. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"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

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4. 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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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5. 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

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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6. 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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • 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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7. 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

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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8. New Animal

By: Ella Baxter

3.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more

Similar categories in Ella Baxter's New Animal book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

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9. 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

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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10. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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11. 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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • 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 Boy Parts by Eliza  Clark

12. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

Cover of Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha  Allen

13. 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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

14. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Milk Fed book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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15. Acts of Service

By: Lillian Fishman

3.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more

Similar categories in Lillian Fishman's Acts of Service book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

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16. Pizza Girl

By: Jean Kyoung Frazier

3.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more

Similar categories in Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I began to picture the world without me in it."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

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17. 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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • 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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18. 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 Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • 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

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19. Sirens & Muses

By: Antonia Angress

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Angress's Sirens & Muses book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

Cover of The New Me by Halle Butler

20. The New Me

By: Halle Butler

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's The New Me book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

21. Nightshift

By: Kiare Ladner

3.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compelling debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young … read more

Similar categories in Kiare Ladner's Nightshift book and Kiare Ladner's Nightshift

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer

21 best-selling fiction books like Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

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Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval

3.55

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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20 Top fiction books like Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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