20 Top fiction books like Tenderloin by Joy Sorman

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Tenderloin

By: Joy Sorman

3.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman’s macabre ballet whirls…

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1. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Sante's I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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2. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's Pink Slime book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
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4. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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5. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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6. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
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7. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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8. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
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9. 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 Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
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10. 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 Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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11. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

12. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
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13. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
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14. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Hard Copy

By: Fien Veldman

3.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is a story of girl meets printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays pri… read more

Similar categories in Fien Veldman's Hard Copy book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
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16. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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17. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
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18. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Tenderloin by Joy Sorman

20. Tenderloin

By: Joy Sorman

3.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman’s macabre ballet whirls… read more

Similar categories in Joy Sorman's Tenderloin book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • weird fiction
  • france
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Rest Stop

By: Nat Cassidy

4.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by a… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Rest Stop book and Joy Sorman's Tenderloin

  • fiction
  • horror

16 Best horror books like Tenderloin by Joy Sorman

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Pink Slime

Fernanda Trías

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Grey Dog

Elliott Gish

3.96

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This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

Eric LaRocca

3.67

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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Anne de Marcken

3.82

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The Stranger at the Wedding

A.E. Gauntlett

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Heads Will Roll

Josh Winning

3.69

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So Thirsty

Rachel Harrison

4.03

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