10 best-selling short stories books like Nudes by Elle Nash

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Nudes

By: Elle Nash

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beginning with a story of an ex sex-worker drifting through a small rural town in the south, and en…

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1. Heathenish

By: Kelby Losack

4.31

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

I have this dream where I’m floating in outer space, sniffing stardust off the rings of Saturn, and… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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3. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Cash's Earth Angel book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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5. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Salt Slow book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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6. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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7. 100 Boyfriends

By: Brontez Purnell

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You never stop looking like art to me"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

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8. 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 Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

Similar categories in Saba Sams's Send Nudes book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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10. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's Pink Slime book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
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11. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • dark
  • contemporary
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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12. 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 Elle Nash's Nudes

  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. 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 Elle Nash's Nudes

  • 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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14. The Disaster Tourist

By: Yun Ko-eun

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global di… read more

Similar categories in Yun Ko-eun's The Disaster Tourist book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

Similar categories in Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. 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 Elle Nash's Nudes

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

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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17. The Harpy

By: Megan Hunter

3.31

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her … read more

Similar categories in Megan Hunter's The Harpy book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. I Fear My Pain Interests You

By: Stephanie LaCava

2.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie LaCava's I Fear My Pain Interests You book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • the united states of america
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19. Play The Devil

By: Scott Laudati

4.57

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Play The Devil is the debut novel from Scott Laudati. A semi-autobiographical tale of two best frie… read more

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20. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Hard Copy

By: Fien Veldman

3.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is a story of girl meets printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays pri… read more

Similar categories in Fien Veldman's Hard Copy book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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23. Astral Season, Beastly Season

By: Tahi Saihate

3.42

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Astral Season, Beastly Season is the debut novel by Japanese writer Tahi Saihate. The story follows… read more

Similar categories in Tahi Saihate's Astral Season, Beastly Season book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • dark
  • contemporary
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24. You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

By: Mary South

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape th… read more

Similar categories in Mary South's You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No one will save her. Nothing is going to magically make it better. The woman has to figure out her life."

-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

"I cradle Keith with a mole against my chest to turn him over, then I massage his butt. "You're special," I whisper in his ear, at a moment when I'm pretty sure no one is looking. "You're a special Ke…"

-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

"The Keiths are Keiths because they are not particularly handsome, not particularly intelligent, not particularly kind. A Keith would never train to compete in professional sports or practice an instr…"

-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories

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25. Convulsive

By: Joe Koch

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New museums birth atrocity in every flex: fifteen horror stories of religion, abuse, desire, and ge… read more

Similar categories in Joe Koch's Convulsive book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • short stories
  • fiction
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26. Nudes

By: Elle Nash

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beginning with a story of an ex sex-worker drifting through a small rural town in the south, and en… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Nudes book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • class
  • the united states of america
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Scumbag Summer: A Novel

By: Jillian Luft

4.72

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 2003 and an idealistic yet unambitious Florida college grad moves to Orlando—the… read more

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28. Something Gross

By: Big Bruiser Dope Boy

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"This genre-defying account (novel? narrative poem?) of the troubled love of a young man for an emo… read more

Similar categories in Big Bruiser Dope Boy's Something Gross book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • the united states of america
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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 Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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. Leasing

By: D.T. Robbins

4.87

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

David, like every other rock-bottom soul, runs out of options and ends up working at Victoria Lawn—… read more

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31. Crooked Smile

By: Jack Moody

4.54

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Henry Gallagher is going to die. His liver is failing, and with each drink his chances of livin… read more

Similar categories in Jack Moody's Crooked Smile book and Elle Nash's Nudes

  • fiction

28 best-selling fiction books like Nudes by Elle Nash

Transform Your Habits

Heathenish

Kelby Losack

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Earth Angel

Madeline Cash

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Scabby Queen

Kirstin Innes

3.72

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16 best-selling fiction books like 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Faggots

Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer

4.26

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What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

4.29

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