18 must-read thriller books like The Garden by Clare Beams

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The Garden

By: Clare Beams

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Garden by Clare Beams , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

1. 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 Clare Beams's The Garden

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

2. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

Cover of The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

3. 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 Clare Beams's The Garden

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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4. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Butcher book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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5. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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6. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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7. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

Similar categories in Alina Grabowski's Women and Children First book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
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9. 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 Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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10. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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11. 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 Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"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

Cover of The Garden by Clare Beams

12. The Garden

By: Clare Beams

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more

Similar categories in Clare Beams's The Garden book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • gothic
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

13. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

14. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman

15. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

Cover of The Witches of Bellinas by J. Nicole Jones

16. The Witches of Bellinas

By: J. Nicole Jones

3.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her m… read more

Similar categories in J. Nicole Jones's The Witches of Bellinas book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
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17. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

18. 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 Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood

19. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Whoever You Are, Honey book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

20. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Clare Beams's The Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

21. 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 Clare Beams's The Garden

  • gothic
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy

21 must-read fiction books like The Garden by Clare Beams

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

Transform Your Habits

Butcher

Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

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21 Top fiction books like Bear by Julia Phillips

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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