6 Best mystery books like The Odyssey by Lara Williams

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Similar categories in Nicoletta Verna's I giorni di Vetro book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• novels
• fiction

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's My Husband book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• audiobook

"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• audiobook

"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

Similar categories in Lara Williams's The Odyssey book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• cults
• fiction
• contemporary
• chick lit
• novels
• adult
• mystery
• audiobook

"I guess it should have made me more protective of myself or something. More cautious with what I give away. But I actually do the opposite. Give people more than what they ask for. To get it over wit…"

-Lara Williams, The Odyssey

Similar categories in Camilla Grudova's Children of Paradise book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• audiobook

"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

Similar categories in Carlotta Vagnoli's Animali notturni book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

Similar categories in Ella Baxter's New Animal book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• audiobook

"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Lillian Fishman's Acts of Service book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

Similar categories in Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I began to picture the world without me in it."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

Similar categories in Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

Similar categories in Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Berlin book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ashley Hutson's One's Company book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"

-Ashley Hutson, One's Company

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Lara Williams's The Odyssey

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites