19 Top fiction books like U Up? by Catie Disabato

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U Up?

By: Catie Disabato

3.32

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

In the follow up to her smart debut, The Ghost Network, Catie Disabato creates a vivid portrait of …

If you liked the fiction plot in U Up? by Catie Disabato , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

By: Charles Yu

3.45

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.  Minor Universe 31 is a… read more

Similar categories in Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • adult
  • fiction
"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire."

-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

2. Smoke (Burned, #2)

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.15

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Pattyn Von Stratten's father is dead, and Pattyn is on the run. After far too many years of abuse a… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Smoke (Burned, #2) book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

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3. 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

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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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4. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

By: Kikuko Tsumura

3.60

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more

Similar categories in Kikuko Tsumura's There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."

-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

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6. 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 Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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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7. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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8. Pizza Girl

By: Jean Kyoung Frazier

3.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more

Similar categories in Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I began to picture the world without me in it."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

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9. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
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10. 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 Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
"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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11. The Return

By: Rachel Harrison

3.38

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An edgy and haunting debut novel about a group of friends who reunite after one of them has returne… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's The Return book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it’s"

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"It was her coping mechanism - tying ribbons over open wounds."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

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12. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

Similar categories in Allie Rowbottom's Aesthetica book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

By: Ted Conover

3.90

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more

Similar categories in Ted Conover's Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

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14. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Ess's Darryl book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

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15. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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16. 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 Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"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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17. Groupies

By: Sarah Priscus

3.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a debut perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six, Mary Jane, and The Final Revival of Opal & Ne… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Priscus's Groupies book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Desire's not deviant. It's human nature."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"If I didn’t do this one thing, I’d never do anything at all."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"We needed something to nurture, and they needed nurturing. Constant attention made you need it even more. The band never learned to be alone and neither did we. But if they were starved for attention…"

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

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18. Exalted

By: Anna Dorn

3.73

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the ou… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Exalted book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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19. How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

By: Venita Blackburn

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware … read more

Similar categories in Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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20. Dark Circles

By: Caite Dolan-Leach

3.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An embattled actress becomes entangled in a dark conspiracy at a spiritual retreat—and starts a tru… read more

Similar categories in Caite Dolan-Leach's Dark Circles book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of U Up? by Catie Disabato

21. U Up?

By: Catie Disabato

3.32

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

In the follow up to her smart debut, The Ghost Network, Catie Disabato creates a vivid portrait of … read more

Similar categories in Catie Disabato's U Up? book and Catie Disabato's U Up?

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • mystery
  • queer

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