5 Best womens books like Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados

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Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil…

"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

If you liked the womens plot in Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Play It As It Lays

By: Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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2. The Idiot

By: Elif Batuman

3.66

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more

Similar categories in Elif Batuman's The Idiot book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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3. Sex and Rage

By: Eve Babitz

3.87

Format: 260 pages,

The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels

4. Black Swans

By: Eve Babitz

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Black Swans book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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 Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • 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

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6. 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 Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • 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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7. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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8. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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9. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • 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

Cover of Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz

10. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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11. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados

12. Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more

Similar categories in Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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13. 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 Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • 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

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14. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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15. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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16. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Milk Fed book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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17. Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more

Similar categories in Elif Batuman's Either/Or book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

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18. 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 Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • 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

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19. Writers & Lovers

By: Lily King

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily K… read more

Similar categories in Lily King's Writers & Lovers book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature"

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"It's a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

"God, you poets are full of shit. You have no idea what half the words you worship mean."

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

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20. Sirens & Muses

By: Antonia Angress

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Angress's Sirens & Muses book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

Cover of The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan

21. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

10 must-read novels books like Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Sex and Rage

Eve Babitz

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Guest

Emma Cline

3.29

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17 Best fiction books like Either/Or by Elif Batuman

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Disorientation

Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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