9 best-selling thriller books like Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie

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Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest…

If you liked the thriller plot in Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley

1. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Starve Acre book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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2. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Cover of Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie

3. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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5. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Simard's The Country Will Bring Us No Peace book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

6. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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8. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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9. 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

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. Swanna in Love

By: Jennifer Belle

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Belle's Swanna in Love book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig

11. A Devil Comes to Town

By: Paolo Maurensig

3.53

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Supplication

By: Nour Abi-Nakhoul

2.67

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a change… read more

Similar categories in Nour Abi-Nakhoul's Supplication book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Dead Relatives

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.92

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The L… read more

Similar categories in Lucie McKnight Hardy's Dead Relatives book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy

14. Water Shall Refuse Them

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.45

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her… read more

Similar categories in Lucie McKnight Hardy's Water Shall Refuse Them book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

Similar categories in Amy Twigg's Spoilt Creatures book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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16. Lamb

By: Matt Hill

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘It’s inside every parent to want to carry their child’s terror. It’s the thing they never tell yo… read more

Similar categories in Matt Hill's Lamb book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Absorbed

By: Kylie Whitehead

3.73

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Allison has been with Owen since university. She's given up on writing her novel and is working a d… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Whitehead's Absorbed book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
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18. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho yeeun

19. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

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20. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us by Anna Bogutskaya

21. Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

By: Anna Bogutskaya

4.18

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Ho… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bogutskaya's Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us book and Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden

  • horror

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3.70

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