5 must-read thriller books like Out by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder

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Out

By: Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mothe…

"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

If you liked the thriller plot in Out by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus

1. Kitchen

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

Format: 296 pages,

Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. In the Miso Soup

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more

Similar categories in Ryū Murakami's In the Miso Soup book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Penance by Philip Gabriel, Kanae Minato

3. Penance

By: Philip Gabriel , Kanae Minato

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma. When they were children, Sae… read more

Similar categories in Philip Gabriel's Penance book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • japanese literature
  • japan

4. Confessions

By: Kanae Minato , Stephen Snyder

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge. After an engagement that ended in t… read more

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5. The Master Key

By: Masako Togawa , None

4.38

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Fans of P.D. James, Robert Barnard and other literate writers in the genre will welcome US publicat… read more

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6. Piercing

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more

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7. Coin Locker Babies

By: Ryū Murakami , Stephen Snyder

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young write… read more

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8. Audition

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife… read more

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9. The Lady Killer

By: Masako Togawa

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ichiro Honda is a good-looking computer expert who works in Tokyo, lives in a respectable hotel, an… read more

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Cover of Out by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen    Snyder

10. Out

By: Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mothe… read more

Similar categories in Natsuo Kirino's Out book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • mystery thriller
  • japan
  • fiction
  • horror
  • asian literature
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"I'm desperate for money'. She said. 'And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you'. (Yoshie Azuma)"

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

11. The Vegetarian

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.00

Format: 204 pages,

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more

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12. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

Similar categories in Seichō Matsumoto's Tokyo Express book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Non è un lavoro per ragazze by Kazuki Sakuraba

13. Non è un lavoro per ragazze

By: Kazuki Sakuraba

3.23

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Fino a che punto può spingersi l'odio nei confronti degli adulti e un'amicizia suggellata dalla com… read more

Similar categories in Kazuki Sakuraba's Non è un lavoro per ragazze book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • thriller
  • japanese literature
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

14. All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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15. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Earthlings book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • japanese literature
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
  • japan
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

Cover of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

16. Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata

3.69

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,0… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A convenience store is a world of sound."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

Cover of Parti e omicidi by Sayaka Murata

17. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Parti e omicidi book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

18. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Life Ceremony book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • japanese literature
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • japan
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

Cover of Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

19. Breasts and Eggs

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.86

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

Cover of Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

20. Heaven

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's Heaven book and Natsuo Kirino's Out

  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

Cover of This Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You by Adam Gnade

21. This Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You

By: Adam Gnade

4.38

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Adam Gnade's third novel is held up by a Springsteenian sense of hope and a desire for redemption, … read more

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  • fiction

14 Best fiction books like Out by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder

Transform Your Habits

Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

In the Miso Soup

Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.83

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Penance

Philip Gabriel , Kanae Minato

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Out

Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder

3.95

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19 Top fiction books like Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

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A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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