21 Top fiction books like Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari

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Dark Things I Adore

By: Katie Lattari

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Careful and sinewy plotting, which reveals in chilling detail who gets to make art, and who gets s…

"How bizarre to be here once again. The scene conjures itself before me like a terrible magic trick, a palimpsest. There had been fewer cars. The lot wasn't paved then. The supermarket had been smaller, less modern, and named something else. But the general angles, the spatial arrangements, the site at the top of the hill: yes. Déjà vu ripples through me like a bad lunch beginning to announce itself hours before the final disaster. My stomach twists, and I feel an unease settle. I never thought I would return. I told myself I never would."

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

"She didn't appear much at all during her first semester. I began noticing her at parties and soirees in the spring of her first year. She was a mirage: you would see her, but it was hard to get close. She'd disappear. I would feel her eyes on me during these shindigs. And she would continue to look, even after our gazes met. She was not cowed. Her confidence and her silence reminded me of myself when I was younger. She seemed to show up to these events primarily to drink deeply of the unfolding scene and its improbable people and its hyperbolic talk and then retreat to her own inner world, as if the whole thing was an exercise in reconnaissance."

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

"<spoiler> It's 3:56 a.m. ...The house is silent. My room and the hallway outside are dark. It's been over an hour since Max hanged himself. I was smart enough to do some research on his computer in the lead-up to this, asking the internet how long it would take to die by hanging. I'd erased his search history each time I trespassed over the past year of course, lest he might see somehow what had been searched. But the police would look at his hard drive if they got any weird feelings about it at all. And there the key strokes would be. My hard drive would have keystrokes about autumn recipes and best gifts for a thesis advisor . My computer would show that I was looking toward a celebration with my mentor. His show computer would show he wasn't looking toward any of future. </spoiler>"

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

"...grand oaks, maples, and chestnuts muscle in on one another, flared in their autumn robes; a motley conflagration under the dazzling mid-October sun. We are in the middle of a beautiful nowhere, digging into sprawling hinterlands, into territories of wild earth. The rolling, winding roads away from Bangor took us through towns with names like Charleston, Dover-Foxcroft, Monson, and Shirley, all with their own quaint, beautifully cinematic set dressing. It was like each was curated from grange hall flea markets and movie sets rife with small-town Americana. Stoic stone war memorials. American flags. Whitewashed, chipping town hall buildings from other centuries. Church bell towers in the actual process of tolling, gonging, calling. To me, the sound was ominous in a remote sort of way, unnamable."

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

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1. The Only One Left

By: Riley Sager

4.14

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Ho… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're never alone when there's a book,' she used to say. 'Never ever."

-Riley Sager, The Only One Left

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2. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. What Lies in the Woods

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.96

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy an… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nothing good comes from digging up old trouble."

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"But why should she be able to leave the woods, when I never had?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"Don't worry. She does this. She likes to go out to the woods to think."

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"When it comes to relationships, if you could take it or leave it, leaving is always the right choice"

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

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6. And There He Kept Her

By: Joshua Moehling

3.73

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

"A dark and complex mystery that will consume you."—Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Family Plot

By: Megan Collins

3.44

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch, horrifying secrets are expo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But what I didn’t understand, never paused for a moment to consider, is that cocoons are inherently temporary, too tight a space in which to grow."

-Megan Collins, The Family Plot

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8. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The It Girl

By: Ruth Ware

3.85

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasion… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The usual. Soft focus, syrupy memories of April and her potential. Sad-faced pictures of h to add a prurient kick to the piece-a hint of scandal, maybe. A student rivalry. A sniff of drugs, or promis…"

-Ruth Ware, The It Girl

"The usual. Soft focus, syrupy memories of April and her potential. Sad-faced pictures of her friends and family pondering all they've lost. Anecdotes about punting and May balls and bright futures. A…"

-Ruth Ware, The It Girl

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10. Dark Things I Adore

By: Katie Lattari

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Careful and sinewy plotting, which reveals in chilling detail who gets to make art, and who gets s… read more

Similar categories in Katie Lattari's Dark Things I Adore book and Katie Lattari's Dark Things I Adore

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • dark
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How bizarre to be here once again. The scene conjures itself before me like a terrible magic trick, a palimpsest. There had been fewer cars. The lot wasn't paved then. The supermarket had been smalle…"

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

"She didn't appear much at all during her first semester. I began noticing her at parties and soirees in the spring of her first year. She was a mirage: you would see her, but it was hard to get close…"

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

"<spoiler> It's 3:56 a.m. ...The house is silent. My room and the hallway outside are dark. It's been over an hour since Max hanged himself. I was smart enough to do some research on his computer in t…"

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

"...grand oaks, maples, and chestnuts muscle in on one another, flared in their autumn robes; a motley conflagration under the dazzling mid-October sun. We are in the middle of a beautiful nowhere, di…"

-Katie Lattari, Dark Things I Adore

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11. Midnight Is the Darkest Hour

By: Ashley Winstead

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the dark. You might like what you find... Ruth Collier has always felt like an outside… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's Midnight Is the Darkest Hour book and Katie Lattari's Dark Things I Adore

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nature doesn't know good or evil. All nature knows is survival."

-Ashley Winstead, Midnight Is the Darkest Hour

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12. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

By: Lisa Unger

3.45

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling lo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal."

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"...there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certa…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"Privilege. A word that suddenly inspired jealousy, resentment, rage. Some people were born with it, that beautiful ease, that aura of never worrying about making it, surviving. Some stood on the othe…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

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14. Sleepless

By: Romy Hausmann

3.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released from prison,… read more

Similar categories in Romy Hausmann's Sleepless book and Katie Lattari's Dark Things I Adore

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. 56 Days

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.75

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Howard's 56 Days book and Katie Lattari's Dark Things I Adore

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Dividing people into good and evil is just lazy."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"Secrets are a different thing. They're destructive."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"None of us know what we're capable of, if the circumstances were right. Or wrong."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"Our robot overlords are coming regardless, but I'm not going to hold the door open for them."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

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16. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. This Is How We End Things

By: R.J. Jacobs

3.49

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by RJ Jacobs, foll… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Hidden

By: Melanie Golding

3.67

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

When a small child is found wandering alone, the local shopkeepers call the authorities immediately… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Where the Dead Sleep (Ben Packard #2)

By: Joshua Moehling

3.96

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

A small town's dark secrets turn deadly... When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. Where the Truth Lies

By: Anna Bailey

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the community’s most devastating… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There are still people out there to whom we are not merely the sum of the bad things that have happened to us."

-Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

"How do you do this?" she'd asked a man at the bar, who'd told her he was leaving his wife. "How do you decide which parts of your life you want to keep and which parts you want to leave behind foreve…"

-Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

"Night is made for unspeakable longings. Night is made for not speaking at all, but for furtive glances under streetlamps on dusty back roads, for the scent of a lover's hair, for fingers brushing pas…"

-Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

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21. Gull Island

By: Anna Porter

2.37

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A haunting psychological suspense novel about a young woman who visits her remote family cottage se… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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