20 Best fiction books like Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague

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Swallow the Ghost

By: Eugenie Montague

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Told in three interlocking sections, Swallow the Ghost interrogates our public identities and priva…

If you liked the fiction plot in Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. 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 Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • adult
  • fiction
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2. 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 Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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3. I Need You to Read This

By: Jessa Maxwell

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's I Need You to Read This book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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4. Didion and Babitz

By: Lili Anolik

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on … read more

Similar categories in Lili Anolik's Didion and Babitz book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

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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 Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Whoever You Are, Honey book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
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7. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
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8. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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9. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Examiner book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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10. 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 Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
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11. 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 Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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12. 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 Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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13. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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14. Shred Sisters

By: Betsy Lerner

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sister… read more

Similar categories in Betsy Lerner's Shred Sisters book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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16. Madwoman

By: Chelsea Bieker

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Bieker's Madwoman book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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17. What It's Like in Words

By: Eliza Moss

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens wh… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Moss's What It's Like in Words book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. 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 Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Swallow the Ghost

By: Eugenie Montague

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Told in three interlocking sections, Swallow the Ghost interrogates our public identities and priva… read more

Similar categories in Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • social media
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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20. Two-Step Devil

By: Jamie Quatro

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times Notable "writer of great originality" comes a bold novel about love, faith an… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Blood Test: A Comedy

By: Charles Baxter

3.35

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) com… read more

Similar categories in Charles Baxter's Blood Test: A Comedy book and Eugenie Montague's Swallow the Ghost

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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I Need You to Read This

Jessa Maxwell

3.54

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The Hypocrite

Jo Hamya

3.55

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Whoever You Are, Honey

Olivia Gatwood

3.74

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Rejection: Fiction

Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

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One Big Happy Family

Jamie Day

3.60

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Will Dean

3.69

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House of Glass

Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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