9 Best science fiction books like Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

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Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack …

"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But that's more a permanent break. Sleep, if you count that - kind of like, diet death. Death junior."

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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1. 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 Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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2. We Had to Remove This Post

By: Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Bervoets's We Had to Remove This Post book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

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3. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

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4. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"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

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5. 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 Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

6. 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 Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"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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7. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

Similar categories in Olga Ravn's The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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8. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • 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

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9. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

Similar categories in Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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10. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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11. Out There

By: Kate Folk

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kate Folk's Out There book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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13. Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)

By: Nino Cipri

4.09

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Defekt (LitenVerse, #2) book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"¿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

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15. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

17. The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more

Similar categories in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi's The Centre book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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19. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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20. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Finna (LitenVerse, #1) book and Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

21 best-selling fiction books like Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Transform Your Habits

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

Transform Your Habits

We Had to Remove This Post

Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

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21 best-selling fiction books like The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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