14 Top fiction books like The River Ophelia by Justine Ettler

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The River Ophelia

By: Justine Ettler

2.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

A disturbing tale about a young university student who loses herself in a destructive relationship,…

"Must you constantly reduce everything to sex?"

-Justine Ettler, The River Ophelia

If you liked the fiction plot in The River Ophelia by Justine Ettler , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

1. What I Loved

By: Siri Hustvedt

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their live… read more

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"What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

"Supuse que aquella entereza la llevaba en la sangre, como un rasgo escandinavo heredado de una larga estirpe de personas que sabían sufrir solas."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

"Vivimos en un mundo de mezclas. El mundo transita a través de nosotros por medio de la comida, los libros, las imágenes, el resto de las personas..."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

"Equating horror with the inhuman has always struck me as convenient but fallacious, if only because I was born into a century that should have ended such talk for good."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

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2. After Dark

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.74

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychologica… read more

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"With luck, it might even snow for us."

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Is it against the law for me to know it?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Are you asking because you really want an answer?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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3. Dark Places

By: Kate Grenville

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001 read more

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Cover of Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas

4. Loaded

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake.… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Letter to D: A Love Story by Julie Rose, André Gorz

5. Letter to D: A Love Story

By: Julie Rose , André Gorz

3.67

Format: 44 pages, Hardcover

'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beaut… read more

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6. Chameleon in a Candy Store

By: Anonymous

3.68

Format: 593 pages, ebook

Anonymous is back with the intoxicating, darkly dangerous, and wildly addictive sequel to hisNew Yo… read more

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7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more

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8. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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9. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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10. Running With Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more

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"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

11. Breath

By: Tim Winton

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more

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12. The Box Man

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative f… read more

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13. Praise

By: Andrew McGahan

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Bukowski-inspired first novel that made McGahan a cult bestseller Down Under, "Praise" is urgen… read more

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14. Girlfriend in a Coma

By: Douglas Coupland

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she wo… read more

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15. Diary Of An Oxygen Thief (The Oxygen Thief Diaries #1)

By: Anonymous

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolit… read more

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16. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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17. Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more

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18. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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  • fiction
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

Cover of Kingdom of the Feared (Kingdom of the Wicked, #3) by Kerri Maniscalco

19. Kingdom of the Feared (Kingdom of the Wicked, #3)

By: Kerri Maniscalco

3.87

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. But before … read more

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"Vengeance. It's an ugly pursuit that encompasses many sins."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Feared (Kingdom of the Wicked, #3)

"Fear would hold me back. But faith in myself would set me free."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Feared (Kingdom of the Wicked, #3)

"His heart beat like a war drum. Mine marched along to the same haunted rhythm."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Feared (Kingdom of the Wicked, #3)

"love and hate are both rooted in passion- strange how that line becomes blurred over time."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Feared (Kingdom of the Wicked, #3)

Cover of Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2) by Kerri Maniscalco

20. Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)

By: Kerri Maniscalco

4.11

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

After selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the … read more

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"Because…"

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)

"I am your favorite sin"

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)

"The stars incline us, they do not bind us."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)

"I will not appear weak for you to maintain strength."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)

Cover of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

21. Boy Swallows Universe

By: Trent Dalton

4.34

Format: 474 pages, Paperback

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more

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"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

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22. The Way From Here

By: Jane Cockram

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of women. Three generations worth of secrets. Will a cache of letters from beyond… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Three Women

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.72

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of… read more

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"Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sendi…"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

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24. When We Lost Our Heads

By: Heather O'Neill

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more

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"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

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25. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

By: Michiko Aoyama

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

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"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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27. Untold Night and Day

By: Bae Suah

3.49

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more

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  • fiction
"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

Cover of The River Ophelia by Justine Ettler

28. The River Ophelia

By: Justine Ettler

2.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

A disturbing tale about a young university student who loses herself in a destructive relationship,… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
"Must you constantly reduce everything to sex?"

-Justine Ettler, The River Ophelia

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What I Loved

Siri Hustvedt

4.08

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After Dark

Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.74

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Dark Places

Kate Grenville

4.27

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Loaded

Christos Tsiolkas

3.89

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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Emma Cline

3.29

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