21 Top fiction books like Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister

Cover of Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister

Desert Creatures

By: Kay Chronister

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. …

If you liked the fiction plot in Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of They Lurk by Ronald Malfi

1. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

2. 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 Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Black Sheep by Rachel   Harrison

3. 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 Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

4. 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 Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of All Hallows by Christopher Golden

5. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's All Hallows book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

6. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

Cover of A Brief History of Living Forever by Jaroslav Kalfar

7. A Brief History of Living Forever

By: Jaroslav Kalfar

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a nativist near-future America obsessed with eternal life and under the increasing threat of tec… read more

Similar categories in Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino

8. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

Cover of Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

9. Liar, Dreamer, Thief

By: Maria Dong

3.59

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a sta… read more

Similar categories in Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Red River Seven by A.J.   Ryan

10. Red River Seven

By: A.J. Ryan

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Seven strangers. One mission. Infinite horror. A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of w… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Ryan's Red River Seven book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

11. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

Cover of The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

12. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's The Pale House Devil book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Good House for Children by Kate   Collins

13. 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 Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman

14. What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's What Kind of Mother book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds

15. Schrader's Chord

By: Scott Leeds

4.06

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debu… read more

Similar categories in Scott Leeds's Schrader's Chord book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Also ..." He nodded to the lone restaurant surrounded by trees. "... that looks like the s-sort of place that has pie." "And hot coffee," Ana added, closing her eyes and purring. Raymond smiled. "May…"

-Scott Leeds, Schrader's Chord

Cover of My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

16. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

17. 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 Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper

18. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's A Light Most Hateful book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister

19. Desert Creatures

By: Kay Chronister

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • post apocalyptic
  • westerns
  • weird fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles

20. Midnight Rooms

By: Donyae Coles

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of … read more

Similar categories in Donyae Coles's Midnight Rooms book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Myrrh by Polly Hall

21. Myrrh

By: Polly Hall

3.18

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman searching for her birth-parents unlocks the secrets of her horrific past, as she tries to s… read more

Similar categories in Polly Hall's Myrrh book and Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

18 best-selling adult books like Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Black Sheep

Rachel Harrison

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Salt Grows Heavy

Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Transform Your Habits

All Hallows

Christopher Golden

3.55

View all the books

21 Top fiction books like A Good House for Children by Kate Collins

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Looking Glass Sound

Catriona Ward

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The September House

Carissa Orlando

3.92

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.