21 must-read fiction books like Family Solstice by Kate Maruyama

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Family Solstice

By: Kate Maruyama

4.48

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

The Massey family loves their house. It’s been in the family for generations, and the land on which…

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1. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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2. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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3. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Hide book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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4. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's All Hallows book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Run Time

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Th… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Howard's Run Time book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I had really begun to understand why people overeat. It isn't what they eat, it's why they eat it: because when you feel literally full from food, it's a brief respite from feeling figuratively empty…"

-Catherine Ryan Howard, Run Time

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7. The Violence

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generati… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's The Violence book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Whalefall book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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9. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Ghost Eaters book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Bad Dolls

By: Rachel Harrison

3.73

Format: 132 pages, ebook

In this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explor… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Bad Dolls book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

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12. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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13. The Island

By: Adrian McKinty

3.77

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't k… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist."

-Adrian McKinty, The Island

Cover of Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

14. Such a Pretty Smile

By: Kristi DeMeester

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-forc… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Old Country

By: Matt Query

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this terrifyingly twisted thriller, a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Man, Fuck This House

By: Brian Asman

3.36

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved into their dream home, a gorgeous Craftsman in the r… read more

Similar categories in Brian Asman's Man, Fuck This House book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Mr. Cables by Ronald Malfi

18. Mr. Cables

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 99 pages, ebook

For bestselling horror novelist Wilson Paventeau, the scariest novel of his career is one he didn’t… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Mr. Cables book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. 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 Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • 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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20. The Last Housewife

By: Ashley Winstead

3.70

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's The Last Housewife book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • adult
  • fiction
"She thrust a pamphlet at me. Suicide Prevention Hotline , it said. Her voice was soaked in reassurance, "No matter what you're feeling, I promise it gets better." I stared at her until she staggered …"

-Ashley Winstead, The Last Housewife

Cover of Family Solstice by Kate Maruyama

21. Family Solstice

By: Kate Maruyama

4.48

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

The Massey family loves their house. It’s been in the family for generations, and the land on which… read more

Similar categories in Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice book and Kate Maruyama's Family Solstice

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

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Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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Hide

Kiersten White

3.33

Transform Your Habits

All Hallows

Christopher Golden

3.55

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21 Best fiction books like The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

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Where Monsters Lie

Kyle Starks

3.71

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Basketful of Heads

Joe Hill

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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Tom King

4.35

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3.94

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