7 best-selling novella books like The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

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The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o…

"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, an attachment, an obsession that Oceane had never called, nor would ever call `love'."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

If you liked the novella plot in The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Penpal

By: Dathan Auerbach

3.86

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Befo… read more

Similar categories in Dathan Auerbach's Penpal book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Our loved ones pass away or simply leave our lives forever too soon, and we think to ourselves, “I wasn’t ready for you to leave. It just wasn’t time,"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

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2. The Deep

By: Nick Cutter

3.42

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I co… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Deep book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What are you so afraid of? said that same voice inside Luke’s head. Everything, another voice answered."

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at mysel…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, wa…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

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3. Suffer the Children

By: Craig DiLouie

3.96

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

From an acclaimed horror writer, a chilling tale of blood-hungry children who rise from the dead in… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Suffer the Children book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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5. Seed

By: Ania Ahlborn

4.25

Format: 127 pages, ebook

Fans of Stephen King, Jack Kilborn, and Blake Crouch... prepare to meet the Devil. In the vine-twis… read more

Similar categories in Ania Ahlborn's Seed book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

6. Exquisite Corpse

By: Poppy Z. Brite

4.00

Format: 208 pages,

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own de… read more

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7. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Troop book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

8. The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)

By: Ryan C. Thomas

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

So much screaming. When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his b… read more

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9. Brother

By: Ania Ahlborn

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling horror author of Within These Wallsand The Bird Eater comes a brand-new novel … read more

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10. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • dark
  • horror
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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11. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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13. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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14. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • novella
  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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15. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

16. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Crossroads book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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17. The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more

Similar categories in Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • novella
  • dark
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

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18. Maggie's Grave

By: David Sodergren

4.06

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Maggie's Grave book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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19. Any Man

By: Amber Tamblyn

3.86

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startlin… read more

Similar categories in Amber Tamblyn's Any Man book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek."

-Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

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20. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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21. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Dathan Auerbach

3.86

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3.42

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Craig DiLouie

3.96

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3.77

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Jon Athan

3.95

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L.M. Kaplin

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