21 Best fiction books like The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer

Cover of The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer

The Seventh Mansion

By: Maryse Meijer

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the author of the story collections Heartbreaker and Rag comes a powerful and propulsive debut…

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1. Complete Plays

By: Sarah Kane , David Greig

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When Sarah Kane's first play, Blasted, was staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1995 it was… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kane's Complete Plays book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

Cover of Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, Sarah Moses, Carolina Orloff

3. Die, My Love

By: Ariana Harwicz , Sarah Moses , Carolina Orloff

3.49

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons embracing exclusion yet … read more

Similar categories in Ariana Harwicz's Die, My Love book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Worse Than Myself

By: Adam Golaski

3.86

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Light crept across the snow in the backyard and the snow became blindingly bright--it seemed more t… read more

Similar categories in Adam Golaski's Worse Than Myself book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch

5. The Pale King

By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte, Dan Hofstadter, Cesare Foligno

6. Kaputt

By: Curzio Malaparte , Dan Hofstadter , Cesare Foligno

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. … read more

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  • fiction
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7. Jagannath

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

8. The Coral Sea

By: Patti Smith

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

In linked pieces Patti Smith tells the story of a man on a journey to see the Southern Cross, who i… read more

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9. A Potion to Die For (A Magic Potion Mystery, #1)

By: Heather Blake

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

TROUBLE IS BREWING... As the owner of Little Shop of Potions, a magic potion shop specializing in l… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

10. Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată

By: Max Blecher

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

,,Ceea ce-l inrudeste structural pe Blecher cu Kafka, cu Bruno Schulz sau cu Robert Walser e mai al… read more

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11. Lies, Inc.

By: Philip K. Dick

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novella The Unteleported… read more

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12. Dark Entries

By: Robert Aickman

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more

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13. The Orange Eats Creeps

By: Steve Erickson , Grace Krilanovich

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's the '90s Pacific Northwest refracted through a dark mirror, where meth and madness hash it out… read more

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14. Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more

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15. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

16. The Face of Another

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis,this classic of postwar Japanese literat… read more

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17. Dark Property

By: Brian Evenson

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious… read more

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Cover of The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5) by Jeff VanderMeer

18. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original tha… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5) book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being."

-Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

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19. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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20. Terminal Boredom: Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more

Similar categories in Izumi Suzuki's Terminal Boredom: Stories book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • fiction
  • lgbt
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

Cover of The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen

21. The Faces

By: Tove Ditlevsen

3.92

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more

Similar categories in Tove Ditlevsen's The Faces book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."

-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces

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22. A Touch of Jen

By: Beth Morgan

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more

Similar categories in Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

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23. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

By: Laura van den Berg

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

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24. The Doloriad

By: Missouri Williams

3.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

Cover of The Unyielding by Gary J.  Shipley

25. The Unyielding

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Something is horribly wrong with my wife. She doesn't move anymore. When I try to lift her I can't.… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's The Unyielding book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Grasshands

By: Kyle Winkler

4.20

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Everything wrong with the world is wrong with books. When overworked library assistant Sylvia Hix f… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Winkler's Grasshands book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • horror
Cover of Crypt(o)spasm by Gary J.  Shipley

27. Crypt(o)spasm

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.29

Format: 673 pages, Paperback

"Crypt(o)spasm is a fiendish formula for any vitalist utopia: The elimination of death or the so-ca… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's Crypt(o)spasm book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • fiction
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28. The Seventh Mansion

By: Maryse Meijer

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the author of the story collections Heartbreaker and Rag comes a powerful and propulsive debut… read more

Similar categories in Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of How I Killed The Universal Man by Thomas  Kendall

29. How I Killed The Universal Man

By: Thomas Kendall

4.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Lakerman, alternative current affairs journalist for donkeyWolf media, is sent to participate … read more

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30. Scar City

By: Joel Lane

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A new collection from one of the most powerful voices in slipstream and horror writing is a signifi… read more

Similar categories in Joel Lane's Scar City book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Borrowed Hills by Scott  Preston

31. The Borrowed Hills

By: Scott Preston

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more

Similar categories in Scott Preston's The Borrowed Hills book and Maryse Meijer's The Seventh Mansion

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

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