9 must-read fantasy books like Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus

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Bent Heavens

By: Daniel Kraus

3.35

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Liv Fleming's father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been a…

"Writing, he'd said, is the most dangerous thing there is. Because when you write, you're only creating half the ideas. The reader brings the other half. And when you have two people involved in a plot, what's that called? Her answer: boring . His response: a conspiracy."

-Daniel Kraus, Bent Heavens

"Writing, he'd said, is the most dangerous thing there is. Because when you write, you're only creating half the ideas. The reader brings the other half. And when you have two people involved in a plot, what's that called? Her answer: boring . His response: a conspiracy."

-Daniel Kraus, Bent Heavens

If you liked the fantasy plot in Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Floating Staircase

By: Ronald Malfi

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Soon after Travis and his wife move into their new house by the lake, he becomes convinced the hous… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Floating Staircase book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

2. The Hatching (The Hatching #1)

By: Ezekiel Boone

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an Amer… read more

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3. December Park

By: Ronald Malfi

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

In the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the … read more

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4. Zero Day (The Hatching, #3)

By: Ezekiel Boone

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the thrilling, nerve-wracking finale of Ezekiel Boone's "hair-raising" (Parade) Hatching series,… read more

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5. Snow

By: Ronald Malfi

3.62

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Todd Curry wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with his son. But when a brutal snowstorm can… read more

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6. Skitter (The Hatching #2)

By: Ezekiel Boone

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Tens of millions of people around the world are dead. Half of China is a nuclear wasteland. Mysteri… read more

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7. 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 Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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9. 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 Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Gathering book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. The Babysitter Lives

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.62

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

Only on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Babysitter Lives book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. Aurora

By: David Koepp

3.79

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace a… read more

Similar categories in David Koepp's Aurora book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"on September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison would turn on the generators at Pearl Street Station, in Lower Manhattan, activating America's first power grid. Human beings were on the path to total electrical …"

-David Koepp, Aurora

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14. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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15. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

Similar categories in Lucy A. Snyder's Sister, Maiden, Monster book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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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 Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Don't Tell a Soul

By: Kirsten Miller

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her. … read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"You sure you won’t get lost?"

-Kirsten Miller, Don't Tell a Soul

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18. Evil in Me

By: Brom

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Evil in Me is bestselling author Brom's newest novel of possession, damnation, and rock-n-roll wher… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Evil in Me book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Bent Heavens

By: Daniel Kraus

3.35

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Liv Fleming's father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been a… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • horror
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • aliens
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Writing, he'd said, is the most dangerous thing there is. Because when you write, you're only creating half the ideas. The reader brings the other half. And when you have two people involved in a plo…"

-Daniel Kraus, Bent Heavens

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20. We Speak in Storms

By: Natalie Lund

3.78

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and haunting debut novel about friendship, acceptance, and learning to let go as the bal… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lund's We Speak in Storms book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Cursed Cruise (Horror Hotel, #2) by Victoria Fulton

21. Cursed Cruise (Horror Hotel, #2)

By: Victoria Fulton

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the authors of Horror Hotel , called "fast-paced and freaky" by #1 NYT bestselling author Kend… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Fulton's Cursed Cruise (Horror Hotel, #2) book and Daniel Kraus's Bent Heavens

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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Ginny Myers Sain

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