20 must-read fiction books like These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

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Similar categories in M.L. Rio's If We Were Villains book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• mystery thriller
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's The Wicker King book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Giovanni’s Room book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1) book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Shirt off."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Are you stupid?"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Give your back to me."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"I don’t understand suicide,"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

Similar categories in Donna Tartt's The Secret History book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult

"It's a terrible thing, what we did,"

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"How quickly he fell; how soon it was over."

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not."

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• historical fiction
• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

"It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"Light is not something you can extinguish," she said. "Even in the darkest night, there is a star."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow," said Will, "you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4) book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It’s so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time."

-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

"Jean held onto his control with everything he had left after such a nightmarish day, but he could feel his grip slipping. Endure, he warned himself, and on its tail-end came a desperate How much must…"

-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• thriller
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"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 Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Summer Sons book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• queer

"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Bunny book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult

"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"

-Mona Awad, Bunny

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult

"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 Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• queer

"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

Similar categories in Tomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Little sparks cause fires too."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

Similar categories in Philippe Besson's Lie With Me book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Babel book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction

"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

Similar categories in Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• mystery thriller
• lgbt
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• adult
• mystery
• queer

"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• adult
• queer

"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 Rafael Nicolás's Angels Before Man book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• queer

"I know what the Lord dressed me in and what He handed to me, and inside, I can feel the detail He put into me. And yet, still, I’m so lost. I only want to be useful to Him, but I don’t know how. I wa…"

-Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man

Similar categories in Victoria Schwab's Vicious (Villains, #1) book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• thriller
• adult
• fiction

"He?"

-Victoria Schwab, Vicious (Villains, #1)

"There are no good men in this game."

-Victoria Schwab, Vicious (Villains, #1)

"When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong."

-Victoria Schwab, Vicious (Villains, #1)

"If he weren't currently in the back of a cop car, he would have wanted to make a thesis note."

-Victoria Schwab, Vicious (Villains, #1)

Similar categories in Jim Grimsley's The Dove in the Belly book and Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Ben was shaking now, sobbing. Ronny watched and let it happen. Ronny wrapped Ben in the blanket. "I came to every game," he said."

-Jim Grimsley, The Dove in the Belly