9 Best fantasy books like The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

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Similar categories in Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• magical realism
• spanish literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• horror
• adult

"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• 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

Similar categories in Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• magical realism
• spanish literature
• fiction
• contemporary

"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Tender Is the Flesh book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult

"Carcass."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"She had the human look of a domesticated animal."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"un matadero debería ignorarse, fundirse con el paisaje y nunca llamarse por lo que realmente es."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"No entiendo por qué nos parece atractiva la sonrisa de una persona. Con la sonrisa uno está mostrando el esqueleto"."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• magical realism
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult
• fantasy

"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 Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult

"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 Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• magical realism
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• fantasy

"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 Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• magical realism
• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult
• fantasy

"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Life Ceremony book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult

"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

Similar categories in Camila Sosa Villada's Soy una tonta por quererte book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• spanish literature
• short stories
• adult
• fiction

"hay que morir en una hoguera para saber cuánto tiempo es la eternidad."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Soy una tonta por quererte

Similar categories in Layla Martínez's Carcoma book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• spanish literature
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult

"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."

-Layla Martínez, Carcoma

Similar categories in Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• spanish literature
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary

"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

Similar categories in Dolores Reyes's Eartheater book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• magical realism
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult
• fantasy

"Solo el dolor parece no morir nunca."

-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater

"No solo el amor acelera el ritmo cardíaco, también la música"

-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater

"No se extraña a un hijo, un hermano, una madre o un amigo igual que a otro"

-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater

Similar categories in Samanta Schweblin's Mouthful of Birds book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• magical realism
• short story collection
• spanish literature
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• horror
• fantasy

Similar categories in Mónica Ojeda's Las voladoras book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• spanish literature
• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• fantasy

"Cuando uno está arriba piensa que ver bien será difícil, pero no es verdad. Ves nítidamente lo que eres y lo que son los otros, que abajo todo es pequeño y miserable y que de allí provienes. Ese es e…"

-Mónica Ojeda, Las voladoras

Similar categories in María Fernanda Ampuero's Sacrificios humanos book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• spanish literature
• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• adult

Similar categories in Mónica Ojeda's Jawbone book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• spanish literature
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult

"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• magical realism
• short story collection
• spanish literature
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult

"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 Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• short story collection
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's The Unworthy book and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

• literary fiction
• spanish literature
• fiction
• horror
• adult