7 Top gothic books like The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter

Cover of The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter

The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op…

If you liked the gothic plot in The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of A Feast of Sorrows by Angela Slatter

1. A Feast of Sorrows

By: Angela Slatter

3.83

Format: 496 pages, ebook

A Feast of Sorrows--Angela Slatter's first U.S. collection--features twelve of the World Fantasy an… read more

Similar categories in Angela Slatter's A Feast of Sorrows book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

2. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

3. 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 A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • 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 Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

4. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • gothic
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

5. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

6. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Song of the Huntress by Lucy  Holland

7. Song of the Huntress

By: Lucy Holland

3.76

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, fem… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Holland's Song of the Huntress book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) by Hannah Kaner

8. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

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9. The City of Stardust

By: Georgia Summers

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Summers's The City of Stardust book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • gothic
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

10. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

Cover of The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

11. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

12. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • gothic
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

Cover of Shadowstitch (The Language of Magic, #2) by Cari Thomas

13. Shadowstitch (The Language of Magic, #2)

By: Cari Thomas

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Anna survived the attempt to bind her magic, but Anna and her coven aren’t free from danger yet. … read more

Similar categories in Cari Thomas's Shadowstitch (The Language of Magic, #2) book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter

14. The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • gothic
  • magic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

15. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

Cover of The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

16. The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.16

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul. Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark … read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • gothic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1) by Genoveva Dimova

17. Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

By: Genoveva Dimova

3.97

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured… read more

Similar categories in Genoveva Dimova's Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1) book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every self-respecting witch had a few battle scars."

-Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

"He had the spine of a snake and the moral compass of a vulture."

-Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

18. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • magic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings by Angela Slatter

19. The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings

By: Angela Slatter

4.21

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning Angela Slatter, author of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, All Th… read more

Similar categories in Angela Slatter's The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale by Angela Slatter

20. No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale

By: Angela Slatter

4.21

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Angela Slatter’s No Good Deed is a dark fantasy tale of magic, ghosts, and marriage set in her Worl… read more

Similar categories in Angela Slatter's No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale book and A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead

  • gothic
  • magic
  • fantasy
  • horror

19 Top fiction books like The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter

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Angela Slatter

3.83

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The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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T. Kingfisher

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21 must-read fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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T. Kingfisher

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