20 Best adult books like Each of Us Killers by Jenny Bhatt

Cover of Each of Us Killers by Jenny Bhatt

Each of Us Killers

By: Jenny Bhatt

4.07

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A Foreword INDIES 2020 Book of the Year Winner in the Short Stories category and a finalist in the …

"When baking bread, a process happens called “oven spring."

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

"When baking bread, a process happens called “oven spring."

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

"Bole tena bor vechai. Speak up if you want to sell your fruit in the market. (The Prize)"

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

"Bole tena bor vechai. Speak up if you want to sell your fruit in the market. (The Prize)"

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

If you liked the adult plot in Each of Us Killers by Jenny Bhatt , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more

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  • race
  • adult
  • short stories
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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2. Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who make… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By: Tom Standage

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more

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4. Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)

By: Rachel Hartman

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Librarian Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375866562. In her New York Timesbestselling an… read more

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5. Death in Spring

By: Mercè Rodoreda , Martha Tennent

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Springis one of Merce … read more

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6. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir

By: Riad Sattouf

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's … read more

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7. Disorientation

By: Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

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8. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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9. Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

3.73

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

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10. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

Similar categories in Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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11. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

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12. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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13. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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14. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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15. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • adult
  • fiction
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16. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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

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17. Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

3.95

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

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18. 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

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett

19. My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

By: Georgia Pritchett

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Georgia Pritchett is a singularly hilarious person. Her book is a delightful and perfect reflectio… read more

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20. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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21. Temple Folk

By: Aaliyah Bilal

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes by Moshe Kasher

22. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

By: Moshe Kasher

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more

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23. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

By: Beth Ann Fennelly

4.14

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived lif… read more

Similar categories in Beth Ann Fennelly's Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • short stories
  • adult
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24. Nightcrawling

By: Leila Mottley

3.98

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

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25. Tanqueray

By: Stephanie Johnson

4.20

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

1970s New York City: Go-go dancers, The Peppermint Lounge, gangsters, Billy’s Topless, and Stephani… read more

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26. Shit Cassandra Saw

By: Gwen E. Kirby

3.83

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking po… read more

Similar categories in Gwen E. Kirby's Shit Cassandra Saw book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Ten Planets: Stories

By: Yuri Herrera

3.54

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vul… read more

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  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
Cover of A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

28. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • race
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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29. The Very Nice Box

By: Laura Blackett

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Ava Simon designs storage boxes for STÄDA, a slick Brooklyn-based furniture company. She’s hard-wor… read more

Similar categories in Laura Blackett's The Very Nice Box book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Each of Us Killers by Jenny Bhatt

30. Each of Us Killers

By: Jenny Bhatt

4.07

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A Foreword INDIES 2020 Book of the Year Winner in the Short Stories category and a finalist in the … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers book and Jenny Bhatt's Each of Us Killers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • collections
  • indian literature
  • short stories
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"When baking bread, a process happens called “oven spring."

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

"Bole tena bor vechai. Speak up if you want to sell your fruit in the market. (The Prize)"

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

"I have to wonder at a world that allows men to go about as if they own it and women to live as if they must endure it. (The Waiting)"

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

"How easily, Urmi thinks, we place our trust everywhere except in the one precious sanctuary that is ours alone, ours forever. (Pros and Cons)"

-Jenny Bhatt, Each of Us Killers

Cover of Circa by Devi S. Laskar

31. Circa

By: Devi S. Laskar

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

For fans of  The Burning Girl  by Claire Messud and  Burnt Sugar  by Avni Doshi, a stunning, gut-pu… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

21 Top fiction books like Each of Us Killers by Jenny Bhatt

Transform Your Habits

Young Jane Young

Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

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Disorientation

Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Ghost Wall

Sarah Moss

3.73

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Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life

Abigail Thomas

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

3.95

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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