21 best-selling fiction books like Plaything by Bea Setton

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Plaything

By: Bea Setton

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. Bu…

If you liked the fiction plot in Plaything by Bea Setton , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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2. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Prasifka's This Is How You Remember It book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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6. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

Similar categories in Amy Twigg's Spoilt Creatures book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

Similar categories in Christine Anne Foley's Bodies book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Laura Dockrill

4.06

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dockrill's I Love You, I Love You, I Love You book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Second Self

By: Chloë Ashby

3.81

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

When Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, the… read more

Similar categories in Chloë Ashby's Second Self book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Teddy

By: Emily Dunlay

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lessons in Chemistry  meets  Mad Men  in this wildly entertaining debut novel, set in glamorous Rom… read more

Similar categories in Emily Dunlay's Teddy book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Probably Nothing

By: Lauren Bravo

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bryony doesn’t mind being single. Which is why she doesn’t understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sle… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bravo's Probably Nothing book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this f… read more

Similar categories in Calla Henkel's Scrap book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Capes's Girls book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Gender Theory

By: Madeline Docherty

4.27

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more

Similar categories in Madeline Docherty's Gender Theory book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Everyone I Know is Dying

By: Emily Slapper

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young w… read more

Similar categories in Emily Slapper's Everyone I Know is Dying book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Gold Rush

By: Olivia Petter

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Petter's Gold Rush book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Plaything

By: Bea Setton

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Plaything book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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19. Disturbance

By: Jenna Clake

3.15

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spellbinding, genre-bending debut that follows a woman’s attempt to heal from an abusive relation… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Clake's Disturbance book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. She's Always Hungry: Stories

By: Eliza Clark

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's She's Always Hungry: Stories book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Fire

By: John Boyne

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the … read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Fire book and Bea Setton's Plaything

  • fiction

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4.11

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3.96

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4.11

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