20 best-selling fiction books like You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin

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You Should Have Left

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura…

"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterdessen so auf die Nerven fiele."

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterdessen so auf die Nerven fiele."

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterdessen so auf die Nerven fiele."

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

If you liked the fiction plot in You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

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2. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

3. The Witnesses Are Gone

By: Joel Lane , Conrad Williams

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the underworld in all the wrong pl… read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Steven L. Peck's A Short Stay in Hell book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"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

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5. You Should Have Left

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • german literature
  • novella
  • germany
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

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6. I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • adult
  • fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

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7. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more

Similar categories in Gus Moreno's This Thing Between Us book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."

-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

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9. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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10. My Husband

By: Maud Ventura

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's My Husband book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"

-Maud Ventura, My Husband

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11. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

Similar categories in Naben Ruthnum's Helpmeet book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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12. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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13. Foe

By: Iain Reid

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. … read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's Foe book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’ve been told these old barns are physical reminders of an older life, when things were different. They need upkeep. They need to be restored. It would be a tragedy if the one in this field is ablaz…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house. ‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’ Anybody can remember details if you ask them…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

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14. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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15. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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16. We Need to Do Something

By: Max Booth III

3.42

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC … read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's We Need to Do Something book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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17. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's We Spread book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

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18. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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19. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Salman's Nothing but the Rain book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
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20. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Simard's The Country Will Bring Us No Peace book and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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21. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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