10 must-read gothic books like The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

Cover of The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

The Hacienda

By: Isabel Cañas

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the…

"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

If you liked the gothic plot in The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

1. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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

2. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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)

Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

3. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The September House by Carissa Orlando

4. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • 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 A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

5. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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 Black Sheep by Rachel   Harrison

6. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

7. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • 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 Lone Women by Victor LaValle

8. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Lone Women book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

Cover of House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

9. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • 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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10. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

11. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

Cover of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

12. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.57

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Daughter of Doctor Moreau book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We all have a animal double, Englishman."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Cover of The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

13. The Hacienda

By: Isabel Cañas

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

"Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle.…"

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

Cover of White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

14. White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more

Similar categories in Erika T. Wurth's White Horse book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

15. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

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

16. 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 Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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 The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

17. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

Cover of Sign Here by Claudia  Lux

18. Sign Here

By: Claudia Lux

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Lux's Sign Here book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"To breathe is miraculous."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Does it count as staying if leaving is always on the mind? How much lying does a marriage need to survive?"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"It was the greatest irony of her life: how much she hated her body and how much she lived for the attention it garnered."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Love is one of these things humans experience, twist to fit their cage of mortality, and then claim to have invented. I'm not blaming you, far from it. Love was made to be coveted, and humans are not…"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

Cover of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

19. Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a m… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Wood and glass and a roof do not constitute a world."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"So I’ll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"She wondered if he kept a pair of calipers to measure his guests' skulls."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Seventh Veil of Salome book and Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

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Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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3.89

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