14 Top horror books like The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer

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The House of Drought

By: Dennis Mombauer

3.13

Format: 106 pages, ebook

A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA. On the island of Sri Lanka, at a colonial mansion betwe…

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Cover of The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) by Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel Roukin

1. The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Samuel Roukin

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ringsand Ursula K. Le G… read more

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction

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

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3. The Wrong Stars

By: Tim Pratt

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A ragtag crew of humans and posthumans discover alien technology that could change the fate of huma… read more

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4. 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 Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • 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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5. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • novella
  • fiction
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6. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

7. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • novella
  • fiction
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8. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • fiction
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9. 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

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  • novella
  • 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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10. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • novella
  • fiction
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11. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

Similar categories in Naseem Jamnia's The Bruising of Qilwa book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • novella
  • fiction
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12. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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13. Arboreality

By: Rebecca Campbell

4.06

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • novella
  • fiction
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14. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
  • horror
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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15. The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

By: Terri-Lynne DeFino

3.77

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new sto… read more

Similar categories in Terri-Lynne DeFino's The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
"It was no longer today, and not yet tomorrow. It was now and she was, for once, content."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"Love is not passion, my dear. Love is sweet and good and righteous. Passion is wild and messy and dangerous."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"Alfonse gave her his words, a mad jumble that didn't sound as lovely coming from his mouth as it would have flying out of the tips of his fingers."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

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16. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Malice House (Malice Compendium, #1) by Megan Shepherd

17. Malice House (Malice Compendium, #1)

By: Megan Shepherd

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Of all the things aspiring artist Haven Marbury expected to find while clearing out her late father… read more

Similar categories in Megan Shepherd's Malice House (Malice Compendium, #1) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
"The moon's soft glow was such a beautiful gift to the night that Pinchy felt compelled to honor it. Though none of his species have ever sung, he raised his small mouth to the sky and summoned a rasp…"

-Megan Shepherd, Malice House (Malice Compendium, #1)

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18. Daphne

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Daphne book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Unconquerable Sun (The Sun Chronicles, #1)

By: Kate Elliott

3.92

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

GENDER-SWAPPED ALEXANDER THE GREAT ON AN INTERSTELLAR SCALE Princess Sun has finally come of age… read more

Similar categories in Kate Elliott's Unconquerable Sun (The Sun Chronicles, #1) book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
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20. Suburban Hell

By: Maureen Kilmer

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Chicago cul-de-sac is about to get a new neighbor...of the demonic kind. Amy Foster considers he… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Kilmer's Suburban Hell book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
  • horror
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21. 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 Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Future Library

By: Peng Shepherd

4.12

Format: 32 pages, ebook

More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth… read more

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  • fiction
"Love is not something that happens to a person, but something a person does for another person, every day, every moment."

-Peng Shepherd, The Future Library

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23. 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 Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

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

-A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

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24. The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

3.32

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Master book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • fiction
  • horror
"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

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25. They Drown Our Daughters

By: Katrina Monroe

3.48

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

"The best kind of story―one that will both break your heart and scare the hell out of you." ―Jennif… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Wasps in the Ice Cream

By: Tim McGregor

4.10

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you fall for the girl everyone hates? Summer 1987: Mark Prewitt's only priorit… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Lure

By: Tim McGregor

4.17

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

In the chapel of a forsaken fishing village on another world's shore, the seawashed bones of old go… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Lure book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. After the Dragons

By: Cynthia Zhang

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Dragons were fire and terror to the Western world, but in the East they brought life-giving rain… … read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
"But it’s not fair. You shouldn’t be the only one —"

-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons

"Five thousand years of history and this is what we have to show for it. All our ancestral animals hunted near extinction or bred into pets."

-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons

"At the temple, the monks had told stories of the first emperor, how Heaven saw his noble deeds and so turned him into a dragon on his death. For centuries, it was said the people of his nation were t…"

-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons

"That's the way with anything worth doing, isn't it? You work and work, and there's always a risk of whether it's enough or not, of whether any of this is going to make a difference or if it's just mo…"

-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons

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29. Miranda in Milan

By: Katharine Duckett

3.51

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s … read more

Similar categories in Katharine Duckett's Miranda in Milan book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • novella
  • fiction
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30. The House of Drought

By: Dennis Mombauer

3.13

Format: 106 pages, ebook

A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA. On the island of Sri Lanka, at a colonial mansion betwe… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought book and Dennis Mombauer's The House of Drought

  • gothic
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror

29 must-read fiction books like The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer

Transform Your Habits

The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

Ursula K. Le Guin , Samuel Roukin

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Spear

Nicola Griffith

4.08

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18 Best fiction books like The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) by Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel Roukin

Transform Your Habits

The Druid of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #2)

Terry Brooks

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Tomie

Junji Ito , Naomi Kokubo

3.40

Transform Your Habits

The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun #4)

Gene Wolfe

5.00

Transform Your Habits

A Stranger in Olondria

Sofia Samatar

4.14

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