Bluebeard's Castle
By: Anna Biller
3.22
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an…
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. 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
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- adult
"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
3. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- adult
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
4. The House That Horror Built
By: Christina Henry
3.22
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
5. 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
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- 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
6. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
7. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
8. Bluebeard's Castle
By: Anna Biller
3.22
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an… read more
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- romance
- gothic
- literary fiction
- retellings
- gothic romance
- feminism
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
9. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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- gothic
- adult
- fiction
- horror
10. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
- horror
11. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
12. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
By: Katie Gee Salisbury
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of H… read more
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- adult
13. An Education in Malice
By: S.T. Gibson
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more
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- romance
- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- adult
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
14. 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
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- gothic
- adult
- fiction
- horror
15. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- adult
16. Vagablonde
By: Anna Dorn
3.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom… read more
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- adult
- fiction
17. I Was a Teenage Slasher
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.68
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
- horror
18. Midnight Rooms
By: Donyae Coles
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of … read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
19. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
20. 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
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- romance
- mystery
- adult
- fiction
21. Kill For Love
By: Laura Picklesimer
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
