8 Top science fiction books like Hum by Helen Phillips

Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Hum by Helen Phillips , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

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2. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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3. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Cover of The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

4. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. 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

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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7. All This & More

By: Peng Shepherd

3.47

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more

Similar categories in Peng Shepherd's All This & More book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood

9. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Whoever You Are, Honey book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

10. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

11. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

12. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

13. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

15. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

16. The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more

Similar categories in Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Tilt

By: Emma Pattee

4.57

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set over the course of one day, a heart-racing debut about a woman facing the unimaginable, determi… read more

Similar categories in Emma Pattee's Tilt book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • fiction
Cover of Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang

18. 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

Similar categories in Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

19. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Burn by Peter Heller

20. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

21. 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

Similar categories in Chelsea Bieker's Madwoman book and Helen Phillips's Hum

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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