28 must-read fiction books like Volume 0: Issue One by Juliet Escoria

Cover of Volume 0: Issue One by Juliet Escoria

Volume 0: Issue One

By: Juliet Escoria

3.31

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Darker. Edgier. Strang-er We like our stories intense, offbeat, and fun in the slightly naughty …

If you liked the fiction plot in Volume 0: Issue One by Juliet Escoria , here is a list of 28 books like this:

Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

1. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

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  • fiction
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

Cover of Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang

2. Tomb Sweeping

By: Alexandra Chang

3.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

3. Dragonfruit

By: Makiia Lucier

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythol… read more

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  • fiction
"Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and thei…"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

Cover of Bad Tourists by Caro Carver

4. Bad Tourists

By: Caro Carver

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwin… read more

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  • fiction
"Her default setting is to say no to any offers of help, that she’s fine, even when she’s not."

-Caro Carver, Bad Tourists

Cover of All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

5. All We Were Promised

By: Ashton Lattimore

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an e… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

6. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

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  • fiction
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Cover of Hera by Jennifer Saint

7. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

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  • fiction
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

8. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

9. House of Glass

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perf… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

10. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

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  • fiction
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

Cover of One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin

11. One-Star Romance

By: Laura Hankin

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who … read more

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  • fiction
"I mean... There have been moments when I read something in a book that feels like it was written just for me. Like the author reached inside my brain, took all the thoughts I didn't know how to expre…"

-Laura Hankin, One-Star Romance

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12. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

13. Spitting Gold

By: Carmella Lowkis

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Middletide by Sarah Crouch

14. Middletide

By: Sarah Crouch

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert

15. Sleep Tight

By: J.H. Markert

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

16. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Here After by Amy  Lin

17. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

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18. Honey

By: Isabel Banta

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more

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  • fiction
"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

Cover of A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

19. A Song to Drown Rivers

By: Ann Liang

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown … read more

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  • fiction
"Please,"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

"His eyes fluttered open, focused on me; it was how he had looked at me in all our time together, across the palace rivers, across the polished floors of his chambers, underneath the moonlight. no mat…"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

Cover of The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

20. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

21. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

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  • fiction
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

Cover of The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

22. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

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  • fiction
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

23. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Volume 0: Issue One by Juliet Escoria

24. Volume 0: Issue One

By: Juliet Escoria

3.31

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Darker. Edgier. Strang-er We like our stories intense, offbeat, and fun in the slightly naughty … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

25. Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

26. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki

27. A Thousand Times Before

By: Asha Thanki

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Phantasma by Kaylie Smith

28. Phantasma

By: Kaylie Smith

4.44

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game. Stay alive. And don’t fall in love. … read more

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"In a different life, in a fair one, I would've kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust"

-Kaylie Smith, Phantasma

Cover of Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang

29. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

30. Madwoman

By: Chelsea Bieker

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Month of Sundays by Courtney Peppernell

31. A Month of Sundays

By: Courtney Peppernell

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From poet Courtney Peppernell comes the story of a very long winter, a month of dark and unforgivin… read more

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