19 Best adult books like Hysteria by Jessica Gross

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Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• adult
• fiction

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• 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

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's My Husband book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• 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

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"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

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• mental health
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• 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

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"¿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

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• 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

Similar categories in Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• novels
• 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

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Normal Women book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• womens
• fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• adult

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Animals Eat Each Other book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• womens
• novels
• adult

Similar categories in Jessica Gross's Hysteria book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• womens
• mental health
• mental illness
• fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Laura Picklesimer's Kill For Love book and Jessica Gross's Hysteria

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook