12 best-selling thriller books like Ariadne, I Love You by J. Ashley-Smith

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Ariadne, I Love You

By: J. Ashley-Smith

4.06

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Jude is dragged out of Alt Country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and…

If you liked the thriller plot in Ariadne, I Love You by J. Ashley-Smith , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Deep

By: Nick Cutter

3.42

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I co… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Deep book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"What are you so afraid of? said that same voice inside Luke’s head. Everything, another voice answered."

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at mysel…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, wa…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

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2. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Dread Nation

By: Justina Ireland

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Cha… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Dread Nation book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Ritual book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

5. Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a des… read more

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6. Stolen Tongues

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: None pages,

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7. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

Similar categories in Jay Anson's The Amityville Horror book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more

Similar categories in Gus Moreno's This Thing Between Us book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."

-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

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9. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. 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 J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • 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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12. Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.99

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

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13. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Patient

By: Jasper DeWitt

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his j… read more

Similar categories in Jasper DeWitt's The Patient book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"it is not possible to show the reality for people who suffer from delusions"

-Jasper DeWitt, The Patient

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15. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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16. 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 J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

17. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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18. Jackal

By: Erin E. Adams

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the fi… read more

Similar categories in Erin E. Adams's Jackal book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"When your name is in other people's mouths, they twist it up. They make you into something you are not. When people take you outside yourself, that is when trouble comes."

-Erin E. Adams, Jackal

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19. The Possession of Natalie Glasgow

By: Hailey Piper

3.69

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Margaret Willow has never met an eleven-year-old as dangerous as Natalie Glasgow. Natalie spends he… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ariadne, I Love You by J. Ashley-Smith

20. Ariadne, I Love You

By: J. Ashley-Smith

4.06

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Jude is dragged out of Alt Country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and… read more

Similar categories in J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts

By: Aaron Dries

4.43

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved o… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Dries's Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts book and J. Ashley-Smith's Ariadne, I Love You

  • horror

18 must-read fiction books like Ariadne, I Love You by J. Ashley-Smith

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Nick Cutter

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Dread Nation

Justina Ireland

3.78

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The Ritual

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

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19 must-read fiction books like The Ritual by Adam L.G. Nevill

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Nick Cutter

3.42

Little Heaven

Nick Cutter

3.85

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A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

3.79

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The Ruins

Scott Smith

3.68

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