11 must-read thriller books like What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? by Henry Farrell

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What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?

By: Henry Farrell

3.58

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Novella that was the basis for the movie, Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte

If you liked the thriller plot in What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? by Henry Farrell , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis by Kathryn Sermak, Danelle Morton

1. Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis

By: Kathryn Sermak , Danelle Morton

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her close… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

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3. Day Shift (Midnight, Texas, #2)

By: Charlaine Harris

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

In Midnight Crossroad,Charlaine Harris returns to the one-traffic-light town you see only when you'… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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4. The Good House

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sac… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. The Stepford Wives

By: Ira Levin

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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6. Desert of the Heart

By: Jane Rule

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's f… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By: Horace McCoy

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Letters from Father Christmas

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook

9. Night Shift (Midnight, Texas, #3)

By: Charlaine Harris

4.11

Format: None pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels--"the Mark Twain of th… read more

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10. Myra Breckinridge

By: Gore Vidal

3.57

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Determined to reinvent himself and explore new territory in his work, Gore Vidal published a provoc… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb."

-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

"Not only are the male students drawn to violence (at second hand), they are also quite totalitarian-minded, even for Americans, and I am convinced that any attractive television personality who wante…"

-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

"I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "…"

-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

11. Dark Water

By: Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

A haunting collection of short stories from Koji Suzuki, author of the smash thriller, Ring, which … read more

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12. Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories

By: Darcy Coates

3.19

Format: None pages,

read more

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13. Laura

By: Vera Caspary

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious… read more

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14. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

15. Breakfast at Tiffany's

By: Truman Capote

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more

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16. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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17. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

By: Heather Clark

4.58

Format: 1154 pages, ebook

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more

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  • audiobook
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

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18. We Sold Our Souls

By: Grady Hendrix

3.73

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Te… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Fight," she finally said. Just fight. Never stop."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— "Do you see where I'm going?" [ROB] — "Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass." [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— Do you see where I'm going with this? [ROB] — Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass. [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"I can't believe that after a lifetime of playing metal, it turns out the world is a shitty country song."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

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19. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • audiobook
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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20. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: Tori Bovalino

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

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21. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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22. The Hollow Dead (Gravekeeper, #4)

By: Darcy Coates

4.36

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could spe… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler

23. Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

By: Max Cutler

3.56

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on insi… read more

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  • audiobook
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24. A Good House for Children

By: Kate Collins

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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25. Another Day in the Colony

By: Chelsea Watego

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond by Geezer Butler

26. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

By: Geezer Butler

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more

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  • audiobook
"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

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27. Where You End

By: Abbott Kahler

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling nonfiction author Abbott Kahler comes a spellbinding fiction debut inspired by tru… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I had time to form one last thought before my mind emptied itself of all things: She will know how to fix me. "

-Abbott Kahler, Where You End

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28. Spitting Gold

By: Carmella Lowkis

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more

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  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Literally Dead: Tales of Halloween Hauntings by Gaby Triana

29. Literally Dead: Tales of Halloween Hauntings

By: Gaby Triana

4.00

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you love All Hallows' Eve? Ghost stories? Tales from beyond that leave you feeling unsettled whi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? by Henry Farrell

30. What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?

By: Henry Farrell

3.58

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Novella that was the basis for the movie, Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

31. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller

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3.89

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John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

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