11 Top horror books like Bread and Milk and Salt by Sarah Gailey

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Bread and Milk and Salt

By: Sarah Gailey

4.01

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Not all things are built to obey… Tor.com reprint of “Bread and Milk and Salt,” originally publi…

If you liked the horror plot in Bread and Milk and Salt by Sarah Gailey , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers

By: Alyssa Wong

3.71

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah and Melanie: sisters, apart and together. Weather workers. Time benders. When two people so … read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Wong's A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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2. The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

By: Louis Sachar

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Louis Sachar, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for HOLES, com… read more

Similar categories in Louis Sachar's The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fiction
"I once had a teacher who told me I'd be twice as smart if I was half as smart as I thought I was. I'm still trying to figure that one out."

-Louis Sachar, The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

"I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll mak…"

-Louis Sachar, The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

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3. The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for … read more

Similar categories in Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Nimona

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically accl… read more

Similar categories in None's Nimona book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fantasy
  • fiction

5. Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage

By: Alix E. Harrow

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

Original Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Novelette || Oona's blood is a river delta blending east and… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

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6. The Ghost Bride

By: Yangsze Choo

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infuse… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Ghost Bride book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better"."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful"."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"I don't keep mistresses; it's far too much trouble. I'm offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was …"

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

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7. Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1

By: Kamome Shirahama

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A TOUCH OF MAGIC In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for grant… read more

Similar categories in Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fairy tales
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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9. Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.03

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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11. Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Little Eve book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

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12. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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14. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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15. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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17. Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gri… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Such Sharp Teeth book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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19. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

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20. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Fox Wife book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

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21. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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22. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which include… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • dark fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"This heavy, grass-loving dog,"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"He who leaps at the moon Into cowshyte falls. Glory unto cowshyte!"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"Funny how an attack by a sea monster makes everyone less interested in a duel."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

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24. How to Excavate a Heart

By: Jake Maia Arlow

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicu… read more

Similar categories in Jake Maia Arlow's How to Excavate a Heart book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fiction
"I didn't use the word lesbian to describe myself until this year, though, which is when I chopped off all my hair and flirted with veganism"

-Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

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25. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

Similar categories in Josiah Bancroft's The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

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26. The Dark House

By: A.C. Wise

3.20

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Dark House book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. A Pilgrimage of Swords (The Seven Swords, #1)

By: Anthony Ryan

4.01

Format: 128 pages, ebook

It is two hundred years since the deity known as the Absolved went mad and destroyed the Kingdom of… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Ryan's A Pilgrimage of Swords (The Seven Swords, #1) book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • dark fantasy
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Shades don't care what you believe or how fiercely you believe it. Your name gives them purchase on your soul and thence your body."

-Anthony Ryan, A Pilgrimage of Swords (The Seven Swords, #1)

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28. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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29. All That Consumes Us

By: Erica Waters

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the hum… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fantasy
  • horror
"We are like a mockery to the dead-so young and so alive, our blood beating hot and excited in our veins. If the roles were reversed and it were me who lay beneath the earth, beneath this thoughtless …"

-Erica Waters, All That Consumes Us

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30. Old Media

By: Annalee Newitz

3.38

Format: 25 pages, ebook

The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love … read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's Old Media book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
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31. Bread and Milk and Salt

By: Sarah Gailey

4.01

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Not all things are built to obey… Tor.com reprint of “Bread and Milk and Salt,” originally publi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt book and Sarah Gailey's Bread and Milk and Salt

  • fairy tales
  • dark fantasy
  • fairies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • dark
  • adult
  • fantasy

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