20 Best fiction books like Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman

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Saturnalia

By: Stephanie Feldman

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia’s elite Saturn C…

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1. The Witnesses Are Gone

By: Joel Lane , Conrad Williams

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the underworld in all the wrong pl… read more

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2. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

3. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

4. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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5. 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 Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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6. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Looking Glass Sound book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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7. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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8. Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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9. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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10. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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11. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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12. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • gothic
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

13. Our Hideous Progeny

By: C.E. McGill

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more

Similar categories in C.E. McGill's Our Hideous Progeny book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

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14. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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15. Lute

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.62

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Wicker Man meets Final Destination in Jennifer Thorne's atmospheric, unsettling folk horror novel a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Lute book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris

16. Green Fuse Burning

By: Tiffany Morris

3.88

Format: 107 pages, ebook

The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars. After the death … read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Morris's Green Fuse Burning book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Mothtown

By: Caroline Hardaker

3.33

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

David is growing up in a world where something is very badly wrong but everyone is protecting David… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Hardaker's Mothtown book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman

18. Saturnalia

By: Stephanie Feldman

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia’s elite Saturn C… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • gothic
  • adult
  • magic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

19. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Merry Dredgers by Jeremy C. Shipp

20. The Merry Dredgers

By: Jeremy C. Shipp

3.63

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma af… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho yeeun

21. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

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3.89

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3.95

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Emily Carroll

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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A Botanical Daughter

Noah Medlock

3.72

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Johanna van Veen

3.89

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