20 best-selling fiction books like Sundial by Catriona Ward

Cover of Sundial by Catriona Ward

Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

3.80

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling…

"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

If you liked the fiction plot in Sundial by Catriona Ward , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

1. 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 Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • 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

Cover of Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi

2. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

Cover of Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

3. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • 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

Cover of Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel

5. Just Like Mother

By: Anne Heltzel

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped … read more

Similar categories in Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hide by Kiersten White

6. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Hide book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

7. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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8. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

Cover of Mister Magic by Kiersten White

10. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

Cover of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

11. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

Cover of This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

12. 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 Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Sheep by Rachel   Harrison

13. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

Cover of How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

14. How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix

3.68

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—a… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"But if we weren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t choose to be friends. We’re different people with different values, and we’re also adults who can choose who we want to spend our time with…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop tho…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

Cover of The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

15. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Sundial by Catriona Ward

16. Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

3.80

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Sundial book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • dark
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

Cover of Mary by Nat Cassidy

17. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • dark
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

18. 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

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

19. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gailey's Just Like Home book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

Cover of We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

20. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Catriona Ward's Sundial

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

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 Catriona Ward's Sundial

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

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4.18

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3.53

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Nat Cassidy

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