14 Top fiction books like The Weirdos by Ottessa Moshfegh

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The Weirdos

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.98

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Original fiction from the publisher's site, (parisreview.org, The Paris Review). On our first da…

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1. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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2. Sex and Rage

By: Eve Babitz

3.87

Format: 260 pages,

The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Wonder Boys

By: Michael Chabon , None

3.95

Format: 302 pages,

In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Palo Alto

By: James Franco

3.24

Format: 0 pages,

A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

7. On Self-Respect

By: Joan Didion

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Essay

"Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power" was first published in Vogue in 1961, and which was republish… read more

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8. A Nervous Breakdown

By: Anton Chekhov

3.50

Format: None pages,

'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to kn… read more

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9. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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10. The Housekeeper and the Professor

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he ha… read more

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11. Nana, Vol. 1 (Nana, #1)

By: Ai Yazawa

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

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12. Girl, Interrupted

By: Susanna Kaysen

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." First pu… read more

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13. Dark Tales

By: Shirley Jackson

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more

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14. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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15. 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

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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16. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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17. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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18. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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19. The Husband Stitch

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.36

Format: 45 pages, ebook

"‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I feel as lonely as I have ever been"

-Carmen Maria Machado, The Husband Stitch

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20. One's Company

By: Ashley Hutson

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"

-Ashley Hutson, One's Company

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21. The Weirdos

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.98

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Original fiction from the publisher's site, (parisreview.org, The Paris Review). On our first da… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's The Weirdos book and Ottessa Moshfegh's The Weirdos

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

12 Top contemporary books like The Weirdos by Ottessa Moshfegh

Transform Your Habits

Sex and Rage

Eve Babitz

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Wonder Boys

Michael Chabon , None

3.95

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Palo Alto

James Franco

3.24

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Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

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Eve Babitz

3.87

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