11 must-read fantasy books like The Electric by Andrew David Barker

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The Electric

By: Andrew David Barker

4.20

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

"Barker is a modern day Bradbury. The Electric is a book full of magic and nostalgia and emotion." …

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Electric by Andrew David Barker , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. The Book of Lost Things

By: John Connolly

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the book… read more

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2. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

3. Six Stories

By: Matt Wesolowski

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The novel is constructed as a series of podcasts, in which an investigative journalist describes th… read more

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4. 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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5. Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1)

By: Mira Grant

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" b… read more

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6. Into the Uncanny

By: Danny Robins

4.27

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

'A contemporary Van Helsing...' Sunday Times'King of true-life scary tales' Observer'A wonderfully … read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"the older I'd got, the more ghost had become an abstract concept, something impossibly fictional on a par with Hobbits, Jedi or getting a GP appointment"

-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny

"Science itself can be quite negative because you essentially can never really prove a theory is correct, you can only prove it's wrong, so scientists are by definition sceptical because they spend a …"

-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny

Cover of Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1) by Marina Dyachenko

7. Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

By: Marina Dyachenko

4.02

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Ukrainian novel—a br… read more

Similar categories in Marina Dyachenko's Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1) book and Andrew David Barker's The Electric

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Think of what you told me,"

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

"All girls are mad. Each in her own way."

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

"Silence . . . Silence is what, Samokhina?"

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

"This institution of higher education had no such concept as mercy."

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

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8. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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9. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

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  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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10. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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16. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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17. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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18. Once Upon a River

By: Diane Setterfield

3.95

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes pla… read more

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  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There must be more to stories than you think."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on the…"

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

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19. The Book of Accidents

By: Chuck Wendig

3.73

Format: 530 pages, Hardcover

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his fam… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

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  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Thrown

By: Sara Cox

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Becky: a single mum who prides herself on her independence. She knows from painful experience that … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

By: Ellen Datlow

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry i… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Burn the Negative

By: Josh Winning

3.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Lamb

By: Matt Hill

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘It’s inside every parent to want to carry their child’s terror. It’s the thing they never tell yo… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of You've Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life by Clark Collis

25. You've Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life

By: Clark Collis

4.40

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Softcover edition contains all-new hand-drawn cover artwork by HagCult! As featured in The New York… read more

Similar categories in Clark Collis's You've Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life book and Andrew David Barker's The Electric

  • horror
Cover of Blight by Tom Carlisle

26. Blight

By: Tom Carlisle

3.19

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliantly atmospheric horror novel about people disappearing in a small, claustrophobic village… read more

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  • historical
  • horror
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27. The Electric

By: Andrew David Barker

4.20

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

"Barker is a modern day Bradbury. The Electric is a book full of magic and nostalgia and emotion." … read more

Similar categories in Andrew David Barker's The Electric book and Andrew David Barker's The Electric

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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28. Charlie Says

By: Neil Williamson

4.62

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I don't know anyone who grew up in the 1970s who wasn't scarred by the public information safety fi… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Borrowed Hills by Scott  Preston

29. The Borrowed Hills

By: Scott Preston

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"

-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills

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30. The Nightmare House

By: Sarah Allen

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this spooky middle grade novel perfect for fans of Small Spaces , Doll Bones , and V. E. Schwab,… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Allen's The Nightmare House book and Andrew David Barker's The Electric

  • fantasy
  • horror

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The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

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Marina Dyachenko

4.02

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A Haunting on the Hill

Elizabeth Hand

3.35

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Silver Nitrate

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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