16 Best adult books like Ruby by Nina Allan

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Ruby

By: Nina Allan

3.47

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

The story of Ruby Castle is told in snapshots and fleeting glimpses and secret histories, in tales …

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1. A Face Like Glass

By: Frances Hardinge

4.18

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Caverna, lies are an art — and everyone's an artist... In the underground city of Caverna the… read more

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's A Face Like Glass book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Neverfell shepherded her herd of frightened, woolly suspicions."

-Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

"I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity."

-Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

"The only sane option was to retreat back out into the corridor. Fortunately sanity had never really slowed Neverfell down."

-Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

"I can't think straight. But why am I trying to do that anyway? Everybody else thinks straight. That's why nobody expects me to think zigzag-hop."

-Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

2. The Beauty

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more

Similar categories in Aliya Whiteley's The Beauty book and Nina Allan's Ruby

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3. The Dance Tree

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Dance Tree book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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4. Dead Eleven

By: Jimmy Juliano

3.72

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Juliano's Dead Eleven book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Echo

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt

3.47

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered. Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Greve… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Olde Heuvelt's Echo book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"A good horror story didn't end with death, but with something worse."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Echo

"But in this particular, untouched moment, all the things I suspected in his involvement in didn't matter, because only Nick and I existed, and I loved him as I had loved him ever since that improbabl…"

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Echo

"You know I enjoy our juxtapositions, our squabbles and edges, the fact that at first sight, our worlds seem so incompatible. If there's anything you can point to as to why we love each other, then it…"

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Echo

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6. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Whistling book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. 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 Nina Allan's Ruby

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Sagas's Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
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10. The Nesting

By: C.J. Cooke

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller. … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Nesting book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Far from the Light of Heaven

By: Tade Thompson

3.51

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousan… read more

Similar categories in Tade Thompson's Far from the Light of Heaven book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Nobody like everybody," says Fin. "Some people are shitty." She sucks her teeth. "Some people are just more difficult to accept than others, and you shouldn't dislike someone because of their weaknes…"

-Tade Thompson, Far from the Light of Heaven

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12. Near the Bone

By: Christina Henry

3.72

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducin… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's Near the Bone book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"They were all willing to believe in the existence of an animal they'd never seen before but they weren't willing to believe it could think and reason."

-Christina Henry, Near the Bone

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13. Cursed

By: Marie O'Regan

3.55

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Twenty curses, old and new, from bestselling fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler,… read more

Similar categories in Marie O'Regan's Cursed book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. Let Him In

By: William Friend

3.36

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

William Friend’s haunting debut Let Him In is a creeping, gothic psychological suspense about a you… read more

Similar categories in William Friend's Let Him In book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts."

-William Friend, Let Him In

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15. The Marigold

By: Andrew F. Sullivan

3.32

Format: 360 pages, ebook

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environm… read more

Similar categories in Andrew F. Sullivan's The Marigold book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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16. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Silence Factory book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Path of Thorns

By: A.G. Slatter

4.00

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess t… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Path of Thorns book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I shake myself, feel the past cascade from my shoulders."

-A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

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18. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

By: R.F. Kuang

3.68

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"

-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

Cover of The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons

19. The Regrets

By: Amy Bonnaffons

3.19

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's dazzling, darkly playful debut novel about a love aff… read more

Similar categories in Amy Bonnaffons's The Regrets book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Eye of the Sh*t Storm (The Frost Files, #3) by Jackson Ford

20. Eye of the Sh*t Storm (The Frost Files, #3)

By: Jackson Ford

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Teagan Frost might be getting better at moving sh*t with her mind – but her job working as a teleki… read more

Similar categories in Jackson Ford's Eye of the Sh*t Storm (The Frost Files, #3) book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Ruby by Nina Allan

21. Ruby

By: Nina Allan

3.47

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

The story of Ruby Castle is told in snapshots and fleeting glimpses and secret histories, in tales … read more

Similar categories in Nina Allan's Ruby book and Nina Allan's Ruby

  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

20 best-selling fiction books like Ruby by Nina Allan

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A Face Like Glass

Frances Hardinge

4.18

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The Dance Tree

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

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Dead Eleven

Jimmy Juliano

3.72

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Echo

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

3.47

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21 must-read fiction books like Cursed by Marie O'Regan

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Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

Christina Henry

3.84

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Kitty Saves the World (Kitty Norville, #14)

Carrie Vaughn

3.72

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Troll Bridge

Neil Gaiman

3.96

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Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Christina Henry

4.04

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