16 must-read fantasy books like A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens by Raul Palma

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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

By: Raul Palma

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the w…

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1. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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2. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

Similar categories in Shubnum Khan's The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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4. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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5. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
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6. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

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7. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Cañas's Vampires of El Norte book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
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8. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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9. Knock Knock, Open Wide

By: Neil Sharpson

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Knock Knock, Open Wide weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural … read more

Similar categories in Neil Sharpson's Knock Knock, Open Wide book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

By: Raul Palma

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the w… read more

Similar categories in Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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11. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

By: Edel Rodriguez

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more

Similar categories in Edel Rodriguez's Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

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12. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Indian Burial Ground book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery thriller
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

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13. West Heart Kill

By: Dann McDorman

3.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the West Heart country club. Where the drinks are neat but behind closed doors . . . thi… read more

Similar categories in Dann McDorman's West Heart Kill book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"You're a private detective."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"People hunger for epiphany, you think, they clamor for it, but given a chance, who among us would actually recognize it? Or, having seen it, would choose to act?"

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"This is, you reflect, one of the consolations of the genre: any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth–however skillfully camouflaged by lies–accessible to all."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

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14. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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15. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Las Madres

By: Esmeralda Santiago

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more

Similar categories in Esmeralda Santiago's Las Madres book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Stockholm

By: Noa Yedlin

3.27

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

An ingeniously plotted dark comedy about aging and friendship following a tight-knit circle of seni… read more

Similar categories in Noa Yedlin's Stockholm book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Edenville

By: Sam Rebelein

3.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror … read more

Similar categories in Sam Rebelein's Edenville book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • horror
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20. Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more

Similar categories in Jennine Capó Crucet's Say Hello to My Little Friend book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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21. The Stars Turned Inside Out

By: Nova Jacobs

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merg… read more

Similar categories in Nova Jacobs's The Stars Turned Inside Out book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) by Cadwell Turnbull

22. We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turn… read more

Similar categories in Cadwell Turnbull's We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative … read more

Similar categories in Yeji Y. Ham's The Invisible Hotel book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
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25. Before the Devil Knows You're Here

By: Autumn Krause

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously dark folk horror for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig, blending the tall tale… read more

Similar categories in Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Curses could be broken, yes, but they left scars. Not simply the sort made from dead flesh, but the sort formed over a nerve so that an ache is always there, just beneath the skin."

-Autumn Krause, Before the Devil Knows You're Here

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26. Blood in the Cut

By: Alejandro Nodarse

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Nodarse's Blood in the Cut book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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28. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
Cover of Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez

30. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

31. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Seventh Veil of Salome book and Raul Palma's A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction

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