15 Best fiction books like The Men in My Life by Garth Simmons

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The Men in My Life

By: Garth Simmons

4.13

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

“The men in your life will shape you.” That’s what Grandma Shedlocker told her. "Be normal, kee…

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Cover of Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) by John Steinbeck

1. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

Cover of Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay

2. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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3. McGlue

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.67

Format: None pages,

Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

4. Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

By: Alissa Nutting

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are in… read more

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5. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • fiction
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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6. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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7. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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8. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women

By: Molly Llewellyn

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. Dracul

By: Dacre Stoker

4.14

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel,… read more

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  • fiction
"Like life, there is much we do not understand about death."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

"I have known politicians with more skeletons in their closet than an undertaker's wife."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

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10. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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  • fiction
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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11. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

Similar categories in Priya Guns's Your Driver Is Waiting book and Garth Simmons's The Men in My Life

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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12. Welcome to Nightmare Island

By: Devin Cabrera

3.73

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Join five friends as they unwittingly embark on a perilous journey to a purportedly state-of-the-ar… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

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  • fiction
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14. Any Man

By: Amber Tamblyn

3.86

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startlin… read more

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  • fiction
"People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek."

-Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

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15. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

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"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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16. The Dark Side of Hell

By: Patrick C. Harrison III

3.67

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

"I don't typically do triggers for my books, but I probably should for this one. Then again, f*ck y… read more

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17. Along the Path of Torment

By: Chandler Morrison

3.79

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Ty Seward is a sick man. Anorexic, sexually aberrant, and haunted by a ghostly apparition residing … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Men in My Life by Garth Simmons

18. The Men in My Life

By: Garth Simmons

4.13

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

“The men in your life will shape you.” That’s what Grandma Shedlocker told her. "Be normal, kee… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. In The House

By: Chris Miller

3.79

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to your worst nightmare.Nathan Wade is awakened in the middle of the night to find his home… read more

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20. Operation Olive Tree

By: Jemil Metti

3.70

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

At Neve Shalom High, two students meet and cultivate a friendship inspired by their mutual love for… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Phrogger

By: Candace Nola

4.33

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you give for an extra life? When one man loses everything while risking it all for an… read more

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John Steinbeck

4.06

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3.67

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Ruth Madievsky

3.52

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4.10

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Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

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Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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Asako Yuzuki

3.60

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4.38

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