17 Best fiction books like Neighbor George by Victoria Nelson

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Neighbor George

By: Victoria Nelson

3.93

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Summer, 1979: A lonely young woman housesitting for her aunt and uncle in an isolated bohemian encl…

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1. The Little Friend

By: Donna Tartt

3.47

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of child… read more

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  • fiction
"But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?"

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"He was talking in a voice which didn't sound at all like James Bond, but which Harriet recognized as his James Bond voice."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

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2. Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

By: Anatole Broyard

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir… read more

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"Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other."

-Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

"When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached."

-Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

"I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m talking about my friends and myself--went beyond love. It was a…"

-Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

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3. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • fiction
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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4. Communion: A True Story

By: Whitley Strieber

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with hi… read more

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  • horror
"Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a la…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

"Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reali…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

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5. Nine Stories

By: J.D. Salinger

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more

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  • fiction

6. Bad Behavior

By: Mary Gaitskill

4.11

Format: None pages,

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7. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

8. Exquisite Corpse

By: Poppy Z. Brite

4.00

Format: 208 pages,

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own de… read more

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9. The Sea Came in at Midnight

By: Steve Erickson

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

God invented millennia for writers like Steve Erickson. Erickson's previous books have buried L.A.'… read more

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10. The House on the Borderland

By: William Hope Hodgson

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more

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11. The Fifth Child

By: Doris Lessing

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more

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12. La ciudad y los perros

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibia el Premio Biblioteca Breve. Asi comenzaba la andadura liter… read more

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13. The Complete Eightball 1-18

By: Daniel Clowes

4.20

Format: None pages, Boxed Set

Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World… read more

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14. You Should Have Left

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

15. The Pastel City

By: M. John Harrison

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Viriconium series: In the distant future, a medieval system rises from the ru… read more

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16. Dead Eleven

By: Jimmy Juliano

3.72

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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  • fiction
"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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19. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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20. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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21. Hawk Mountain

By: Conner Habib

3.75

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception,… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Apparition Phase

By: Will Maclean

3.91

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An atmospheric and stunning literary debut, reminiscent of the gothic suspense of Shirley Jackson a… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Pew

By: Catherine Lacey

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

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24. Vermis, Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods (Vermis, #1)

By: Plastiboo

4.65

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"Vermis I" is the first of an artbook series by the artist Plastiboo. A pure act of world-buildi… read more

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  • horror
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25. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto) by J.F. Martel

26. Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)

By: J.F. Martel

4.42

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journ… read more

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27. 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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  • fiction
"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

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28. Vermis II: Mist & Mirrors

By: Plastiboo

4.48

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"Vermis II" is the second of an artbook series by the artist Plastiboo. A pure act of world-buildi… read more

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  • horror
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29. Dark Neighbourhood

By: Vanessa Onwuemezi

3.37

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

In her brilliantly inventive debut collection, Vanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and hau… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Final Cut

By: Charles Burns

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an ar… read more

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31. Neighbor George

By: Victoria Nelson

3.93

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Summer, 1979: A lonely young woman housesitting for her aunt and uncle in an isolated bohemian encl… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

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3.51

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3.55

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