20 must-read fiction books like Mrs. Jekyll by Emma Glass

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Mrs. Jekyll

By: Emma Glass

4.02

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligati…

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1. The Hole

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.49

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more

Similar categories in Hiroko Oyamada's The Hole book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

Cover of Pelea de gallos by María Fernanda Ampuero

2. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

Similar categories in María Fernanda Ampuero's Pelea de gallos book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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3. 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

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of Parade by Hiromi Kawakami

4. Parade

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A brief, disquieting companion to the bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, set during a summer aft… read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's Parade book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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 Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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. 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 Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

7. 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 Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa

8. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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9. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

10. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Hotel by Daisy Johnson

12. The Hotel

By: Daisy Johnson

3.99

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Daisy Johnson’s series of ghost stories set in a hotel on the Fens. read more

Similar categories in Daisy Johnson's The Hotel book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • fiction
Cover of I Will Crash by Rebecca    Watson

13. I Will Crash

By: Rebecca Watson

4.05

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

It was a peace offering, I knew that you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Al… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Watson's I Will Crash book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

14. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

15. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

16. Lucy Undying

By: Kiersten White

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on h… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Lucy Undying book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • adult
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

17. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

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 Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • 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. Mystery Lights

By: Lena Valencia

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows w… read more

Similar categories in Lena Valencia's Mystery Lights book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Mrs. Jekyll by Emma Glass

20. Mrs. Jekyll

By: Emma Glass

4.02

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligati… read more

Similar categories in Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll book and Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of She's Always Hungry: Stories by Eliza  Clark

21. 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 Emma Glass's Mrs. Jekyll

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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