The Centaur's Daughter

7 best books like The Centaur's Daughter (Ellen Jensen Abbott): The Woman in Our House, Anonymous, Ungirls (Disorder collection), The Beckoning Fair One (Disorder collection), The Best Girls (Disorder collection), Loam (Disorder collection), Will Williams (Disorder collection)

The Woman in Our House

Author

Andrew Hart

What happens when you open your home to the perfect stranger?

Anna Klein is ready to return to work as a literary agent for the first time since having children. She and her husband, Josh, decide to hire a live-in nanny with some trepidation, but all their misgivings disappear as soon as they meet...

Anonymous

Author

Uzodinma Iweala

Welcome back to America! For a man trapped in the Homeland Security machine, passing through customs becomes a nightmarish odyssey in this story by the author of Beasts of No Nation.

He’s a well-traveled consultant arriving home at a metropolitan airport. He’s also become accustomed...

Ungirls (Disorder collection)

Author

Lauren Beukes

In the near future, lab-grown sex dolls are the pleasure toy of choice in this disturbing and provocative short story from Lauren Beukes, the bestselling author of The Shining Girls.Actor and sex worker Nats is experienced at putting on a show. However, her new gig supplying intimate whispers for growgirls...

The Beckoning Fair One (Disorder collection)

Author

Dan Chaon

All teenagers come of age. But in this spellbinding story by the bestselling author of Ill Will, one girl’s awakening requires something special. Something strange. Then it can all work like a charm.Ever since they were orphaned, Tyler has kept close tabs on his sister, Shannon. He has to, considering...

The Best Girls (Disorder collection)

Author

Min Jin Lee

Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko explores the meaning of patriarchy and the cost of female silence through the eyes of a dutiful young girl.An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed...

Loam (Disorder collection)

Author

Scott Heim

When three siblings return to their hometown for their estranged father’s funeral, burying the ghosts of the past proves to be impossible in this chilling story by the author of Mysterious Skin.Forty years ago, triplets Miriam, Louise, and Edward were swept up in a case of rural mass hysteria. Coerced...

Will Williams (Disorder collection)

Author

Namwali Serpell

In the modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson' by the author of 'The Old drift,' a young black man's paranoia escalates as he is followed, challenged, and terrorized by a doppelgänger bent on sabotaging his life.

Ever since high school, somebody's been playing the echo game...