27 must-read fiction books like This House by Sian Northey

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This House

By: Sian Northey

4.08

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Anna has lived alone for decades. She is cocooned by, and marooned in, an isolated cottage called N…

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1. Human Acts

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more

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2. The Rats (Rats, #1)

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly,… read more

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3. Tuya

By: Claudia Piñeiro

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Un corazón dibujado con rouge, cruzado por un “te quiero” y firmado “Tuya”, le revela a Inés que su… read more

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"Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plo…"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Tuya

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4. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

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5. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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6. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman

By: Patrícia Melo

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the… read more

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7. There Are More Things

By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

4.03

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dea… read more

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8. 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

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"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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9. Perras de reserva

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

“Las mujeres podemos ser muy horribles, plebe” Para sobrevivir en los rincones más injustos del pa… read more

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"Lo que empieza recio, recio se termina."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

"México es un monstruo enorme que devora a las mujeres. México es un desierto hecho de polvo de huesos. México es un cementerio de cruces rosas. México es un país que odia a las mujeres."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

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10. Bezmatek

By: Mira Marcinów

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

W brawurowej prozie Miry Marcinów wszystko jest dzikie i dziwne, a najdziwniejsza jest śmierć, któr… read more

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11. Is Mother Dead

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.80

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more

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"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

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12. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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14. Un amor

By: Sara Mesa

3.58

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

La historia de Un amor ocurre en La Escapa, un pequeño núcleo rural donde Nat, una joven e inexpert… read more

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15. Cursed Bread

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.28

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more

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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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16. 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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"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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17. 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

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"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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18. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

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"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

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19. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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20. Tokyo Ueno Station

By: Yū Miri

3.47

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more

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"There’s that sound again."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

Cover of Dagarna, dagarna, dagarna by Tone Schunnesson

21. Dagarna, dagarna, dagarna

By: Tone Schunnesson

3.28

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Bibbs ska precis fylla trettionio år. Samtidigt finns det andra som fyller tjugosex eller nitton. T… read more

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22. Blue Hour

By: Tiffany Clarke Harrison

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s… read more

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23. Sa préférée

By: Sarah Jollien-Fardel

4.10

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Dans ce village haut perché des montagnes valaisannes, tout se sait, et personne ne dit rien. Jeann… read more

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24. La habitación alemana

By: Carla Maliandi

3.80

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

¿Podemos afirmar que La habitación alemana, primera novela de Carla Maliandi, inventa un género nue… read more

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25. Milchzähne

By: Helene Bukowski

3.80

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

Eines Tages steht das Kind plötzlich da, die Haare feuerrot leuchtend inmitten des Kiefernwaldes, u… read more

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Cover of Sgen I'm Syniad: Snogs, Secs, Sens by Gwenllian Ellis

26. Sgen I'm Syniad: Snogs, Secs, Sens

By: Gwenllian Ellis

4.20

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Dyma lyfr am ffrindiau, teulu, tyfu fyny yng ngogledd Cymru, teimlo fel bo chdi'n cael dy adael ar … read more

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27. Cwlwm

By: Ffion Enlli

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Stryffaglu trwy ei hugeiniau yn Llundain mae Lydia, yn difaru'r nosweithiau meddw, yn pendroni dros… read more

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28. Hallt

By: Meleri Wyn James

3.49

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Mae'r byd i gyd o flaen Cari. Mae hi'n 16 oed ac yn dyheu am ei rhyddid. I Elen mae hynny'n destun … read more

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29. Monumenta

By: Lara Haworth

3.83

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.The council will bulldoze it.Her home will become a monum… read more

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30. Hunchback

By: Saou Ichikawa

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Without mud, the lotus could not survive.’ Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa … read more

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"Dingin ataupun bukan, komunikator yang kuatlah yang akan menemukan makna suatu percakapan."

-Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

"Aku benci buku kertas! Aku benci kejantanan budaya membaca yang menuntut seseorang memenuhi lima syarat kesehatan: mata yang bisa melihat, tangan yang dapat memegang, jari yang mahir membalik halaman…"

-Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

"Aku pernah menulis di forum bahwa dunia penerbitan menganut Machismo Orang Normal—memprioritaskan orang-orang sehat. Bukankah dunia olahraga—yang dibenci bagai hewan berbisa oleh orang-orang budaya y…"

-Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

"Aku benci museum, perpustakaan, dan bangunan bersejarah yang dilestarikan. Aku gusar kepada benda-benda tua yang selalu ada di sana dalam bentuk yang sempurna. Aku dongkol kepada benda-benda berharga…"

-Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

Cover of This House by Sian Northey

31. This House

By: Sian Northey

4.08

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Anna has lived alone for decades. She is cocooned by, and marooned in, an isolated cottage called N… read more

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20 Top fiction books like Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

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