5 Top fantasy books like Where I Can't Follow by Ashley Blooms

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Where I Can't Follow

By: Ashley Blooms

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Walk through the door and leave all your problems behind…but you don’t know what’s on the other sid…

"I wasn't sure I would recognize Joy if I saw it in an empty room. We were strangers at best, though most days it felt like we were mortal enemies. I could rely on Doubt and Worry and even Grief. I inhaled Stress and exhaled Obligation. Joy was something different, though. Something strange and feral and bright, and Carver wore it so well."

-Ashley Blooms, Where I Can't Follow

"I wasn't sure I would recognize Joy if I saw it in an empty room. We were strangers at best, though most days it felt like we were mortal enemies. I could rely on Doubt and Worry and even Grief. I inhaled Stress and exhaled Obligation. Joy was something different, though. Something strange and feral and bright, and Carver wore it so well."

-Ashley Blooms, Where I Can't Follow

"I wasn't sure I would recognize Joy if I saw it in an empty room. We were strangers at best, though most days it felt like we were mortal enemies. I could rely on Doubt and Worry and even Grief. I inhaled Stress and exhaled Obligation. Joy was something different, though. Something strange and feral and bright, and Carver wore it so well."

-Ashley Blooms, Where I Can't Follow

"I can't keep going on like this," Julie said, "I've tried everything I can think of. I tried doing it the Reverend's way my whole life. The doctors' ways. I tried it without therapy, without meds. I joined a bunch of online groups. All these people preaching love and light and how you can just manifest money and happiness, but you can't manifest your way out of this. It's bullshit. And I'm just so tired."

-Ashley Blooms, Where I Can't Follow

If you liked the fantasy plot in Where I Can't Follow by Ashley Blooms , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Kitty Cornered: How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home

By: Bob Tarte

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have l… read more

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2. Don't Try to Find Me

By: Holly Brown

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

When a 14-year-old runs away, her parents turn to social media to find her-launching a public campa… read more

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3. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Elegy for the Undead

By: Matthew Vesely

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a diseas… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Briardark (Briardark, #1)

By: S.A. Harian

3.80

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Harian's Briardark (Briardark, #1) book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
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6. Promise

By: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Promise book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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7. Chorus

By: Rebecca Kauffman

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Our little hearts can carry only so much in one lifetime, after all."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

"And he knew that this beautiful world had a forked tongue. And he knew that everything he thought and felt and feared was real."

-Rebecca Kauffman, Chorus

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8. Knife River

By: Justine Champine

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

When Jess was thirteen her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister Liz… read more

Similar categories in Justine Champine's Knife River book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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9. Magdalene: Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more

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  • fiction
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

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10. The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird

By: Louisa Morgan

4.02

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ability to see ghosts draws her into a journey of redemption and unexpected friendship in… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Morgan's The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
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11. A Parchment of Leaves

By: Silas House

4.22

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this nationally bestselling novel, A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House produced an iconic story o… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
"I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?"

-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

"Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branc…"

-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

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12. Do I Know You?

By: Sarah Strohmeyer

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For readers of Lisa Jewell, Liv Constantine, and Megan Miranda, a lightning-paced psychological thr… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Strohmeyer's Do I Know You? book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • adult
  • fiction
"Anyone who pledges a new start out of love deserves a second chance."

-Sarah Strohmeyer, Do I Know You?

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13. Till Death Do Us Part

By: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here returns with a thriller set in the vineyards of Napa V… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's Till Death Do Us Part book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Spaceship Next Door (Sorrow Falls, #1)

By: Gene Doucette

3.99

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only… read more

Similar categories in Gene Doucette's The Spaceship Next Door (Sorrow Falls, #1) book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Kissing Games of the World

By: Sandi Kahn Shelton

3.95

Format: 467 pages, Kindle Edition

Warmhearted, insightful, funny and poignant, bestselling author, Maddie Dawson, takes the unfathoma… read more

Similar categories in Sandi Kahn Shelton's Kissing Games of the World book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Where I Can't Follow

By: Ashley Blooms

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Walk through the door and leave all your problems behind…but you don’t know what’s on the other sid… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • urban fantasy
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"I wasn't sure I would recognize Joy if I saw it in an empty room. We were strangers at best, though most days it felt like we were mortal enemies. I could rely on Doubt and Worry and even Grief. I in…"

-Ashley Blooms, Where I Can't Follow

"I can't keep going on like this," Julie said, "I've tried everything I can think of. I tried doing it the Reverend's way my whole life. The doctors' ways. I tried it without therapy, without meds. I …"

-Ashley Blooms, Where I Can't Follow

"For most of my life there was a part of me that believed I didn't belong here -- in Blackdamp, in Granny's house. in this world. And that part of me ached at the sight of my door, at the thought of h…"

-Ashley Blooms, Where I Can't Follow

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17. The Father She Went to Find

By: Carter Wilson

3.81

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

A road trip to find closure… or a reckless chase that could turn deadly? Penny has never met an… read more

Similar categories in Carter Wilson's The Father She Went to Find book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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18. The Speed of Mercy

By: ChristyAnn Conlin

3.46

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“Dark family secrets, the lore of the sea, and a tender, protective friendship between women all co… read more

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  • fiction
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19. The Night the River Wept

By: Lo Patrick

3.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Everybody's got good and bad in them. In the end, it just depends which side wins out. Arlene h… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2)

By: Fiona Barton

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who in… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Where the Forest Meets the River (Dalton, Maine, #2)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America. … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Bowring's Where the Forest Meets the River (Dalton, Maine, #2) book and Ashley Blooms's Where I Can't Follow

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

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