8 Top novels books like Two-Step Devil by Jamie Quatro

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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…

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1. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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2. Practice

By: Rosalind Brown

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more

Similar categories in Rosalind Brown's Practice book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"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

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4. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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5. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • 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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7. Season of the Swamp

By: Yuri Herrera

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more

Similar categories in Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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8. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
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9. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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10. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

Similar categories in Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

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12. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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14. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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16. Bright Objects

By: Ruby Todd

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequenc… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Todd's Bright Objects book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Two-Step Devil by Jamie Quatro

17. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • religion
  • spirituality
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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18. The Repeat Room

By: Jesse Ball

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brillia… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Ball's The Repeat Room book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Blood Test: A Comedy by Charles Baxter

20. 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 Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
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21. Lazarus Man

By: Richard Price

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, shines … read more

Similar categories in Richard Price's Lazarus Man book and Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

21 must-read fiction books like Two-Step Devil by Jamie Quatro

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The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

4.02

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Practice

Rosalind Brown

3.71

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Sarah Manguso

3.89

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Playground

Richard Powers

4.35

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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Hisham Matar

4.34

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Yael van der Wouden

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