20 Top fiction books like Devil by the Sea by Nina Bawden

Cover of Devil by the Sea by Nina Bawden

Devil by the Sea

By: Nina Bawden

3.90

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

A headstrong nine-year-old girl is pursued by an old man who she believes is the Devil.

If you liked the fiction plot in Devil by the Sea by Nina Bawden , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Bloody Baudelaire by R.B. Russell

1. Bloody Baudelaire

By: R.B. Russell

3.89

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

When young Lucian Miller visits the house of a friend it is everything he had long fantasized about… read more

Similar categories in R.B. Russell's Bloody Baudelaire book and Nina Bawden's Devil by the Sea

  • horror
  • fiction
  • british literature
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2. A Dark Corner

By: Celia Dale

3.68

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

A Dark Corner is a chilling depiction of domestic horror. First published in 1971 it tells the stor… read more

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  • horror
  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H.G. Wells , Orson Scott Card

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the adva… read more

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  • fiction
"There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

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4. Tomie

By: Junji Ito , Naomi Kokubo

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Tomie book and Nina Bawden's Devil by the Sea

  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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  • fiction
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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6. Amy and Isabelle

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her stunning first novel Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from … read more

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  • fiction
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7. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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  • fiction

8. The Complete Fairy Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more

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9. Anything Is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.20

Format: None pages,

Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more

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10. Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more

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11. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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12. Canto yo y la montaña baila

By: Irene Solà

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more

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  • fiction
"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

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13. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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14. The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

By: Micaiah Johnson

3.94

Format: 336 pages, None

An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fr… read more

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  • fiction
"Of course, humanity couldn't just look. We had to enter. We had to touch and taste and take."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"„An angel fallen from the sky, with my name on her back so I would know the gift was meant for me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"I confused routine for reliability and reliability for safety. I had no idea the chaos I was capable of holding inside me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

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15. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2) book and Nina Bawden's Devil by the Sea

  • fiction
"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

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16. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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  • fiction
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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17. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

By: Kikuko Tsumura

3.60

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more

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  • fiction
"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."

-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

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18. Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Chouette book and Nina Bawden's Devil by the Sea

  • fiction
  • horror
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

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19. Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

3.80

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

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20. The Leviathan

By: Rosie Andrews

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Leviathan book and Nina Bawden's Devil by the Sea

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"

-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan

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21. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

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22. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Bezill

By: John Symonds

3.22

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Geoffrey Pellerin travels to a remote English mansion, Bezill Tower, to serve as tutor to the boy o… read more

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  • gothic
  • horror
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Devil by the Sea by Nina Bawden

24. Devil by the Sea

By: Nina Bawden

3.90

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

A headstrong nine-year-old girl is pursued by an old man who she believes is the Devil. read more

Similar categories in Nina Bawden's Devil by the Sea book and Nina Bawden's Devil by the Sea

  • gothic
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • abuse
  • thriller
  • horror

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