14 must-read fiction books like Hell by Robert Olen Butler

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Hell

By: Robert Olen Butler

4.26

Format: None pages,

Hatcher McCord is an evening-news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to expl…

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1. Horns

By: Joe Hill

3.93

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with … read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Horns book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Love requires Context."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"I am; I was. I want to be."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"[...] In a lot of ways, I guess Satan was the first superhero."

-Joe Hill, Horns

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2. Hell

By: Robert Olen Butler

4.26

Format: None pages,

Hatcher McCord is an evening-news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to expl… read more

Similar categories in Robert Olen Butler's Hell book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • humor
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • comedy
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3. I, Lucifer

By: Glen Duncan

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Prince of Darkness has been given one last shot at redemption, provided he can live out a reaso… read more

Similar categories in Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

4. The Mysterious Stranger

By: Mark Twain

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In his last years, Mark Twain had become a respected literary figure whose opinions were widely sou… read more

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5. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

By: Åsne Seierstad , Sarah Death

4.17

Format: None pages,

A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put… read more

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6. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

By: Ian Fleming

3.80

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more

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  • fiction
"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

7. The Uninvited Guests

By: Sadie Jones

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant suppe… read more

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8. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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9. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

10. Vineland

By: Thomas Pynchon

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more

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11. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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13. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)

By: Lev Grossman

3.02

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A teenage nobody crosses a line that will change her life forever in this short coming-of-age story… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Noir

By: Christopher Moore

3.79

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

San Francisco. Summer, 1947. A dame walks into a saloon . . . It’s not every afternoon that an e… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Moore's Noir book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • humor
  • comedy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There are times in a guy's life when he finds himself floating facedown in a sea of troubles, and as hope bubbles away, he thinks, How the hell did I get here?"

-Christopher Moore, Noir

"[after Sammy struggles to unhook Stilton's bra] She rolled onto her face to give him a good shot at the hook in the back. "Free my people!" "I will. I am the Harriet Tubman of your breasts."

-Christopher Moore, Noir

"Now, I am the younger brother of an older brother who often measured the worth of a guy by his ability to not scream under pressure, and insisted, in fact, that if any screamlike sounds ever reached …"

-Christopher Moore, Noir

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16. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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17. Before and After (Before and After, #1)

By: Andrew Shanahan

4.03

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BEST-SELLING SCI-FI THRILLER THAT BLENDS HEALTHY LIVING AND LOTS OF DYING Ben Stone is terri… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Shanahan's Before and After (Before and After, #1) book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

By: Matt Siegel

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love. Is Italia… read more

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19. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

By: Kermit Pattison

4.13

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ard… read more

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20. Evil Eye

By: Madhuri Shekar

4.01

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in… read more

Similar categories in Madhuri Shekar's Evil Eye book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

By: Kevin Brockmeier

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless What… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Brockmeier's The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories book and Robert Olen Butler's Hell

  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Time and space, he thought. What a hodgepodge."

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

"She had always been a person of ticklish sensibilities, easily overcome by the ordinary frictions of life."

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

"The guidance counselor had never married; had hardly even dated. It was better, easier, he had decided, not to disturb anyone with his love or his sadness."

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

"Not long ago he had turned sixty, an age when people hunger for a moment, however small, that will justify the years they have spent and those that still remain to them."

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

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