18 Top adult books like Reception by Kenzie Jennings

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Reception

By: Kenzie Jennings

3.74

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

While her rehab counselor’s advice replays in her mind, Ansley Boone takes on the role of dutiful b…

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1. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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2. Full Brutal

By: Kristopher Triana

4.04

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. S… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Full Brutal book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Gothic book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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6. The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more

Similar categories in Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

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7. 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 Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. 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 Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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10. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

Cover of Benny Rose, the Cannibal King by Hailey Piper

11. Benny Rose, the Cannibal King

By: Hailey Piper

3.80

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Blackwood, Vermont has one legend to its name—Benny Rose, the Cannibal King. Every local kid knows … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's Benny Rose, the Cannibal King book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. True Crime

By: Samantha Kolesnik

3.62

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Suzy and her brother, Lim, live with their abusive mother in a town where the stars don’t shine at … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Kolesnik's True Crime book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"That will be your punishment—to see a Paradise you cannot ruin."

-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime

"I was the black sheep, the sheep with teeth, the sheep even the wolf wouldn’t eat."

-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime

"There was something gratifying about people’s hesitations and concerns when around me."

-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime

"To come in as a murderer and to murder is one thing. To come in as a friend, but to be a foe is another. Deceit is really the true crime of humanity."

-Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime

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13. Cirque Berserk

By: Jessica Guess

3.76

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

The summer of 1989 brought terror to the town of Shadows Creek, Florida in the form of a massacre a… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Guess's Cirque Berserk book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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14. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Plastic Monsters

By: Daniel J. Volpe

3.80

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

Beauty is... pain But for Pamela Rose beauty is everything. She spends every day and almost ever… read more

Similar categories in Daniel J. Volpe's Plastic Monsters book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • novella
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. To Be Devoured

By: Sara Tantlinger

3.82

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more

Similar categories in Sara Tantlinger's To Be Devoured book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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18. 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 Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Wasps in the Ice Cream

By: Tim McGregor

4.10

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you fall for the girl everyone hates? Summer 1987: Mark Prewitt's only priorit… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Wasps in the Ice Cream book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

20. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Reception by Kenzie Jennings

21. Reception

By: Kenzie Jennings

3.74

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

While her rehab counselor’s advice replays in her mind, Ansley Boone takes on the role of dutiful b… read more

Similar categories in Kenzie Jennings's Reception book and Kenzie Jennings's Reception

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

7 best-selling novella books like Reception by Kenzie Jennings

Transform Your Habits

The Laws of the Skies

Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Transform Your Habits

Benny Rose, the Cannibal King

Hailey Piper

3.80

Transform Your Habits

True Crime

Samantha Kolesnik

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Cirque Berserk

Jessica Guess

3.76

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20 best-selling fiction books like Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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