17 must-read gothic books like The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea

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The Glass Woman

By: Caroline Lea

3.69

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

1686, ICELAND. AN ISOLATED, WINDSWEPT LAND HAUNTED BY WITCH TRIALS AND STEEPED IN THE ANCIENT SAGAS…

"Love opens us, as an earthquake opens the earth."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"In love, every one of us is a cross, every one of us a Christ."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"She is a woman capable of violence. She is a woman who did what was necessary. She is a woman who has survived."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"We were but a step away from the vagrants and exiles who are left to beg by the roads until they were murdered by the cold and buried by the snow."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

If you liked the gothic plot in The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis

1. The Butcher's Hook

By: Janet Ellis

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Georgian London. Summer 1763. Anne Jaccob is coming of age, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Whe… read more

Similar categories in Janet Ellis's The Butcher's Hook book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley

2. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Familiars by Stacey Halls

3. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Familiars book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

Cover of The Household by Stacey Halls

4. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

5. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

6. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

Similar categories in Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The Square of Sevens book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

Cover of The Whispering Muse by Laura  Purcell

7. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Fyneshade by Kate   Griffin

8. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

Similar categories in Kate Griffin's Fyneshade book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman

9. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

Similar categories in Anya Bergman's The Witches of Vardø book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Corset by Laura  Purcell

10. The Corset

By: Laura Purcell

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Corset book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

Cover of Bone China by Laura  Purcell

11. Bone China

By: Laura Purcell

3.65

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's Bone China book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

12. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quickening by Rhiannon Ward

13. The Quickening

By: Rhiannon Ward

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Feminist gothic fiction set between the late 19th century and the early 20th century - an era of bu… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Ward's The Quickening book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
Cover of The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola

14. The Clockwork Girl

By: Anna Mazzola

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A intoxicating and darkly immersive story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, from the… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Clockwork Girl book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea

15. The Glass Woman

By: Caroline Lea

3.69

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

1686, ICELAND. AN ISOLATED, WINDSWEPT LAND HAUNTED BY WITCH TRIALS AND STEEPED IN THE ANCIENT SAGAS… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Love opens us, as an earthquake opens the earth."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"In love, every one of us is a cross, every one of us a Christ."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"She is a woman capable of violence. She is a woman who did what was necessary. She is a woman who has survived."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

"We were but a step away from the vagrants and exiles who are left to beg by the roads until they were murdered by the cold and buried by the snow."

-Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

Cover of The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

16. The Shadow Key

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or… read more

Similar categories in Susan Stokes-Chapman's The Shadow Key book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Company by J.M. Varese

17. The Company

By: J.M. Varese

3.46

Format: 320 pages, ebook

London, 1870. Lucy Braithwhite lives a privileged existence as the heir to the fortune of Braith… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Varese's The Company book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of The Shadowing by Rhiannon Ward

18. The Shadowing

By: Rhiannon Ward

4.04

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

When well-to-do Hester learns of her sister Mercy's death at a Nottinghamshire workhouse, she trave… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Ward's The Shadowing book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Nightingale's Castle by Sonia Velton

19. The Nightingale's Castle

By: Sonia Velton

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe—with a touch of Dracula—a propul… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Velton's The Nightingale's Castle book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Poisoner's Tale by Cathryn Kemp

20. A Poisoner's Tale

By: Cathryn Kemp

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In 17th-century Rome, men are falling like flies and nobody knows why...Hidden within the alleys an… read more

Similar categories in Cathryn Kemp's A Poisoner's Tale book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah  Underwood

21. Gentlest of Wild Things

By: Sarah Underwood

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

On the island of Zakynthos, nothing is more powerful than Desire―love itself, bottled and sold to t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Underwood's Gentlest of Wild Things book and Caroline Lea's The Glass Woman

  • fiction

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