15 best-selling fantasy books like Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

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Reluctant Immortals

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.54

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes …

"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

"The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time. First it was her friends, the Texan and the laudanum-loving doctor and that odious lord I nearly married (sometimes, death is a mercy)."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

If you liked the fantasy plot in Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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2. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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3. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. 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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
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5. 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

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. 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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"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

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7. 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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. 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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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9. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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10. Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gri… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Such Sharp Teeth book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. House of Hunger

By: Alexis Henderson

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Gi… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Henderson's House of Hunger book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • gothic
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"To love is to devour"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. - Countess Lisavet Bathory"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve staked my time on it, and when you’re as busy as I am there’s no gamble so big as that."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

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12. 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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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13. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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14. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

Similar categories in Lucy A. Snyder's Sister, Maiden, Monster book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. 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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Reluctant Immortals

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.54

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes … read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • gothic
  • retellings
  • historical
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

"The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time. First it was her friends, the Texan …"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

Cover of Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1) by Liz Kerin

17. Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1)

By: Liz Kerin

3.91

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrou… read more

Similar categories in Liz Kerin's Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1) book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

18. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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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 Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Evil in Me

By: Brom

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Evil in Me is bestselling author Brom's newest novel of possession, damnation, and rock-n-roll wher… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Evil in Me book and Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal

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