11 must-read fiction books like Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria

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Juliet the Maniac

By: Juliet Escoria

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illnes…

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1. Hill William

By: Scott McClanahan

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel som… read more

Similar categories in Scott McClanahan's Hill William book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I couldn't believe it. Something wasn't right. I thought, "Batman smokes cigarettes." I couldn't believe it. "Batman smokes fucking cigarettes." I walked away and saw that Batman was just this stupid…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

"I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it throug…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

"That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to the tree company tearing away the woods and the timber. I heard the chain…"

-Scott McClanahan, Hill William

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2. Dei bambini non si sa niente

By: Simona Vinci

4.50

Format: 532 pages,

Questo romanzo di una esordiente racconta la storia, tutta vista dall'interno, di un eden infantile… read more

Similar categories in Simona Vinci's Dei bambini non si sa niente book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Sarah Book

By: Scott McClanahan

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the ch… read more

Similar categories in Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place

By: Scott McClanahan

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

When Scott McClanahan was fourteen he went to live with his Grandma Ruby and his Uncle Nathan, who … read more

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5. Peach

By: Emma Glass

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Introducing a dazzling new literary voice--a wholly original novel as groundbreaking as the works o… read more

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6. what purpose did i serve in your life

By: Marie Calloway

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Marie Calloway emerged in 2011, a controversial, compelling young talent whose work drove intense a… read more

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7. La più amata

By: Teresa Ciabatti

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Mi chiamo Teresa Ciabatti, ho quattro anni, e sono la figlia, la gioia, l'orgoglio, l'amore del Pr… read more

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8. El cielo de la selva

By: Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

La selva es un dios hambriento. Uno que permite vivir a salvo en sus dominios pero exige el más alt… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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9. Whore of New York: A Confession

By: Liara Roux

3.16

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Why would someone ever voluntarily become a sex worker? Liara Roux writes about the salacious detai… read more

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10. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

Similar categories in Emmeline Clein's Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • mental illness
  • psychology
  • mental health
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11. Vacuum in the Dark

By: Jen Beagin

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voic… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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12. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

Similar categories in Blake Butler's Molly book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • mental illness
  • adult
  • mental health
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13. Animals Eat Each Other

By: Elle Nash

3.48

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

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14. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

By: Chelsea Hodson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Hodson's Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • contemporary
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

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15. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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16. Someone Who Isn’t Me

By: Geoff Rickly

4.60

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."

-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me

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17. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • psychology
  • contemporary
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18. Juliet the Maniac

By: Juliet Escoria

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • psychology
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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19. A Cigarette Lit Backwards

By: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices an… read more

Similar categories in Tea Hacic-Vlahovic's A Cigarette Lit Backwards book and Juliet Escoria's Juliet the Maniac

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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21. Secrets in the Islands: A Sami Series Adventure

By: Lauren de Leeuw

3.83

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

Having world famous archaeologists for parents isn't easy. Sure, the stories about their discoverie… read more

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"No one! That’s the point."

-Lauren de Leeuw, Secrets in the Islands: A Sami Series Adventure

"Determination filled her as she made up her mind. Her parents did this for a living, and she was going to prove in her own way that she could be useful on these trips. She would be a part of the fami…"

-Lauren de Leeuw, Secrets in the Islands: A Sami Series Adventure

"They had always had a library room in the house, and it was filled floor to ceiling with hundreds of books. She spent many long blanket-wrapped winter days and hot summer afternoons lounging on the s…"

-Lauren de Leeuw, Secrets in the Islands: A Sami Series Adventure

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