15 must-read horror books like This Is Where We Live by Kate Hardie

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This Is Where We Live

By: Kate Hardie

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the d…

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Cover of Idol, Burning by Rin Usami

1. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

Similar categories in Rin Usami's Idol, Burning book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

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2. My Husband

By: Maud Ventura

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's My Husband book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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3. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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6. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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9. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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10. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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11. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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12. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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13. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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14. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka

15. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Prasifka's This Is How You Remember It book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Rooftop

By: Fernanda Trías

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the worl… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's The Rooftop book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Shadow Key

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or… read more

Similar categories in Susan Stokes-Chapman's The Shadow Key book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • fiction
Cover of This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire

18. This World Does Not Belong to Us

By: Natalia García Freire

3.73

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A journey to the bowels of the earth After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he wa… read more

Similar categories in Natalia García Freire's This World Does Not Belong to Us book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Detrás del bosque de Polylepis, muere el sol. Está alto, tan alto que sus árboles parecieran haber tenido que inclinarse para no tocar las nubes. Los Polylepis son árboles de páramo. Sus troncos se d…"

-Natalia García Freire, This World Does Not Belong to Us

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19. 3 Streets

By: Yōko Tawada

3.23

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Ko… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Tawada's 3 Streets book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • novella
  • fiction
Cover of Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander

20. Mother for Dinner

By: Shalom Auslander

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

By the author of Foreskin's Lament, a novel of identity, tribalism, and mothers. Seventh Seltzer… read more

Similar categories in Shalom Auslander's Mother for Dinner book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Séptimo solía preguntarse con precaución si terminaría contrayendo el odio de su madre, si heredaría su intolerancia, como un virus, como un defecto de nacimiento, a pesar de sus esfuerzos por resist…"

-Shalom Auslander, Mother for Dinner

Cover of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill

21. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Laura Dockrill

4.06

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dockrill's I Love You, I Love You, I Love You book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Free Therapy

By: Rebecca Ivory

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

A debut collection that heralds the arrival of a fresh and exciting new literary voiceFree Therapy … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ivory's Free Therapy book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories by Ao Omae

23. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories

By: Ao Omae

3.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the w… read more

Similar categories in Ao Omae's People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of This Is Where We Live by Kate  Hardie

24. This Is Where We Live

By: Kate Hardie

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the d… read more

Similar categories in Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani

25. The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more

Similar categories in Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Temper by Phoebe Walker

26. Temper

By: Phoebe Walker

3.15

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

There’ s a gap where my sense of place should be. It’ s quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me … read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Walker's Temper book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Queer As Folklore by Sacha Coward

27. Queer As Folklore

By: Sacha Coward

4.13

Format: None pages, None

Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and… read more

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Cover of The Tasting Menu: A Short Story by Stuart MacBride

28. The Tasting Menu: A Short Story

By: Stuart MacBride

3.58

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short tale from Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dead of Winter and … read more

Similar categories in Stuart MacBride's The Tasting Menu: A Short Story book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

29. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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30. Rewitched

By: Lucy Jane Wood

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark . . . but she hasn’t seen it in a while, either… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Jane Wood's Rewitched book and Kate Hardie's This Is Where We Live

  • fiction
  • contemporary

29 Top fiction books like This Is Where We Live by Kate Hardie

Transform Your Habits

Idol, Burning

Rin Usami

3.23

Transform Your Habits

My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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16 must-read fiction books like The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani

Transform Your Habits

A Magical Girl Retires

Park Seolyeon

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Safer Places

Kit Anderson

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

Briony Cameron

3.82

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