5 must-read fiction books like Loving Monsters by Laura Eppinger

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Loving Monsters

By: Laura Eppinger

4.62

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

A clever vampire hides her secret by convincing her lovers that they have bedbugs. The Jersey Devil…

If you liked the fiction plot in Loving Monsters by Laura Eppinger , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more

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  • fiction
"Pero, tú no eres fácil."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

2. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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3. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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4. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

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5. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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6. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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7. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

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8. The Thirty Names of Night

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

4.04

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more

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  • fiction
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

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9. Loving Monsters

By: Laura Eppinger

4.62

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

A clever vampire hides her secret by convincing her lovers that they have bedbugs. The Jersey Devil… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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