13 Best novels books like No Touching by Ketty Rouf

Cover of No Touching by Ketty Rouf

No Touching

By: Ketty Rouf

3.54

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

A story of liberation and a heartrending portrayal of a woman’s sense of self, Ketty Rouf’s extraor…

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1. Only Ever Yours

By: Louise O'Neill

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world in which baby girls are no longer born naturally, women are bred in schools, trained in … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Notice by Heather  Lewis, None

2. Notice

By: Heather Lewis , None

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she n… read more

Similar categories in Heather Lewis's Notice book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Little Birds

By: Anaïs Nin

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex … read more

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  • fiction
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4. Lucy

By: Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

Format: None pages,

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in pape… read more

Similar categories in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)

By: John Updike

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In this sequel to Rabbit, Run,John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harr… read more

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6. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

By: Steven Callahan

3.12

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of surviv… read more

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7. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3) book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • fiction
Cover of This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack

8. This Plague of Souls

By: Mike McCormack

3.09

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more

Similar categories in Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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10. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women

By: Molly Llewellyn

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more

Similar categories in Molly Llewellyn's Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. New Animal

By: Ella Baxter

3.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more

Similar categories in Ella Baxter's New Animal book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

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12. Sea Monsters

By: Chloe Aridjis

3.37

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters o… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Aridjis's Sea Monsters book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Imprisoned on this island, I would say, imprisoned on this island"

-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

"He had started out as a snag, a snag in the composition; from one moment to the next, there was no other way of putting it, he had begun to appear in my life back in the city. And since all appearanc…"

-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

"If I stayed in much longer I was certain I would dissolve, there were probably hundreds of dissolved bodies in the ocean, swirling around with the shells and seaweed, that’s what happens when you imm…"

-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

"There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and th…"

-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

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13. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. A Touch of Jen

By: Beth Morgan

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more

Similar categories in Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

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15. Hangman

By: Maya Binyam

3.59

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more

Similar categories in Maya Binyam's Hangman book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Good Girl

By: Anna Fitzpatrick

3.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Secretary meets Fleabag in Anna Fitzpatrick's hot and hilarious comic-erotic debut. Lucy tries s… read more

Similar categories in Anna Fitzpatrick's Good Girl book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
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17. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

Similar categories in Allie Rowbottom's Aesthetica book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Fifteen Wild Decembers

By: Karen Powell

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more

Similar categories in Karen Powell's Fifteen Wild Decembers book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • fiction
Cover of Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen

19. Big Girl, Small Town

By: Michelle Gallen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet Majella O’Neill, a heroine like no other, in this captivating Irish debut that has been called… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Gallen's Big Girl, Small Town book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Other People's Clothes

By: Calla Henkel

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive debut with a wicked sense of humor in which two American ex-pats obsessed with the Ama… read more

Similar categories in Calla Henkel's Other People's Clothes book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Self Care

By: Leigh Stein

3.14

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Stein's Self Care book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Leaving New York was always a reminder of the millions of people who would never choose your life or your lifestyle, the one you fought so hard to have, to prove how special you were."

-Leigh Stein, Self Care

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22. The Harpy

By: Megan Hunter

3.31

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her … read more

Similar categories in Megan Hunter's The Harpy book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. You're Next

By: Kylie Schachte

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a girl with a troubled history of finding dead bodies investigates the murder of her ex, she u… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Schachte's You're Next book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems

By: Emily Jungmin Yoon

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new ta… read more

Similar categories in Emily Jungmin Yoon's A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • contemporary
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25. Little Rabbit

By: Alyssa Songsiridej

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency i… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Songsiridej's Little Rabbit book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Women: A Novella by Chloé Caldwell

26. Women: A Novella

By: Chloé Caldwell

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair … read more

Similar categories in Chloé Caldwell's Women: A Novella book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left un…"

-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella

"I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once…"

-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella

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27. The Book of Mother

By: Violaine Huisman

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet … read more

Similar categories in Violaine Huisman's The Book of Mother book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"The truth of a life is the fiction that sustains it."

-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

"Colava a picco, senza più legami all'infuori delle due figlie impotenti che la guardavano andare a fondo insieme ai sacchi della spazzatura pieni di vestiti e di scarpe, che si inabissavano come la s…"

-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

"La mamma non conosceva la discesa morbida, la pista verde per lei non esisteva, se andava bene era rossa incendio, se andava male nero estintore. Allora non restava che vedere se si poteva andare più…"

-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

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28. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Jha's The Laughter book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Hysteria

By: Jessica Gross

3.03

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual ben… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Gross's Hysteria book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
Cover of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

30. 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 Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of No Touching by Ketty Rouf

31. No Touching

By: Ketty Rouf

3.54

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

A story of liberation and a heartrending portrayal of a woman’s sense of self, Ketty Rouf’s extraor… read more

Similar categories in Ketty Rouf's No Touching book and Ketty Rouf's No Touching

  • literary fiction
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • international

28 best-selling fiction books like No Touching by Ketty Rouf

Transform Your Habits

Only Ever Yours

Louise O'Neill

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Notice

Heather Lewis , None

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Little Birds

Anaïs Nin

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

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18 Top fiction books like Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

Transform Your Habits

Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

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Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

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Elolliset

Iida Turpeinen

4.38

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Sirpa Kähkönen

3.59

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