8 Best mystery books like The Ash Family by Molly Dektar

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The Ash Family

By: Molly Dektar

3.23

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

When a young woman leaves her family to join a secret off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic…

"The more knowledge you have, the more you can love," he said. "Love comes from understanding, not from ignorance."

-Molly Dektar, The Ash Family

"I grounded myself by breathing into my scarf. Memories darted around the brown trees, thousands of them edging up on me. The past for me was 100 percent sad, the way that sometimes weather sites say it's 100 percent humidity outside, but it's still not raining."

-Molly Dektar, The Ash Family

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1. Geek Love

By: Katherine Dunn

3.95

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"You must have wished a million times to be normal."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

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2. The Girls

By: Emma Cline

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Girls book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

3. The Ghost Notebooks

By: Ben Dolnick

3.92

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more

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4. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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5. The Abstinence Teacher

By: Tom Perrotta

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids. It's got the proverbial good schools, solid v… read more

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6. The Answers

By: Catherine Lacey

3.59

Format: 32 pages,

An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more

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7. The Chosen One

By: Carol Lynch Williams

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has thr… read more

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8. My Husband

By: Maud Ventura

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's My Husband book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"

-Maud Ventura, My Husband

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9. 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 Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Paper Cage

By: Tom Baragwanath

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride… read more

Similar categories in Tom Baragwanath's Paper Cage book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. A Good House for Children

By: Kate Collins

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more

Similar categories in Kate Collins's A Good House for Children book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Fractured Tide

By: Leslie Lutz

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Lost meets Stranger Things in this eerie, immersive YA thriller, thrusting seventeen-year-old Sia i… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You told me once the mind is an ocean, and most of us live on the surface. But the currents beneath, that’s what moves everything around. The currents make the boats shift position in the night, push…"

-Leslie Lutz, Fractured Tide

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13. But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

By: Paige Layle

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to … read more

Similar categories in Paige Layle's But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • adult
  • audiobook
"We remain hidden, tucked away behind corporations aiming to change us, pushing supplements and instant cures into the hands of desperate parents looking to make our lives better. We're hidden behind …"

-Paige Layle, But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

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14. The Farm

By: Joanne Ramos

3.49

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Ramos's The Farm book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong."

-Joanne Ramos, The Farm

"And suddenly she is exhausted. And sad. A sadness so vast she feels like she is drowning in it... Because nothing is going to change."

-Joanne Ramos, The Farm

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15. Edenville

By: Sam Rebelein

3.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror … read more

Similar categories in Sam Rebelein's Edenville book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ash Family by Molly Dektar

16. The Ash Family

By: Molly Dektar

3.23

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

When a young woman leaves her family to join a secret off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic… read more

Similar categories in Molly Dektar's The Ash Family book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • literary fiction
  • cults
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"The more knowledge you have, the more you can love," he said. "Love comes from understanding, not from ignorance."

-Molly Dektar, The Ash Family

"I grounded myself by breathing into my scarf. Memories darted around the brown trees, thousands of them edging up on me. The past for me was 100 percent sad, the way that sometimes weather sites say …"

-Molly Dektar, The Ash Family

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17. Thin Girls

By: Diana Clarke

3.87

Format: None pages, None

A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and que… read more

Similar categories in Diana Clarke's Thin Girls book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."

-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

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18. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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19. Dear Hanna

By: Zoje Stage

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more

Similar categories in Zoje Stage's Dear Hanna book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. A Funny Kind of Paradise

By: Jo Owens

4.10

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she w… read more

Similar categories in Jo Owens's A Funny Kind of Paradise book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Fierce Little Thing

By: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

3.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“A Secret History -esque tale...All the ingredients for the perfect summer read.” ―The Millions “Ca… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Beverly-Whittemore's Fierce Little Thing book and Molly Dektar's The Ash Family

  • cults
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • cult classics
  • adult
  • audiobook

15 Best fiction books like The Ash Family by Molly Dektar

Transform Your Habits

Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

3.95

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The Girls

Emma Cline

3.48

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My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

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Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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