16 Best fiction books like Appalachian Book of the Dead by Dale Neal

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Appalachian Book of the Dead

By: Dale Neal

3.46

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Angel Garcia Jones left a trail of murders before disappearing into the deep woods of Yonah, North …

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Cover of The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1) by Michael Crichton

1. The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

By: Michael Crichton

3.91

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: cu… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves."

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

"A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ign…"

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

2. Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Be careful what you wish for... Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who h… read more

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  • fiction

3. Gods in Alabama

By: Joshilyn Jackson

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now. When… read more

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4. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

By: Agatha Christie

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile th… read more

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  • fiction
"Put that in your mustache and smoke it."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

"You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

"Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

"Nobody would ever get anything done nowadays if they weren't in a hurry."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

5. Nightwoods

By: Charles Frazier

4.23

Format: 400 pages,

The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moonsreturns with a dazzling new novel of su… read more

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6. Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now mag… read more

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7. Bloodroot

By: Amy Greene

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a … read more

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8. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

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  • fiction
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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9. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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10. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • fiction
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11. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Thistlefoot

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

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13. The Book of Longings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ru… read more

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  • fiction
"Bless the largeness inside me, no matter how I fear it."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"What most sets you apart is the spirit in you that rebels and persists."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"When I tell you all shall be well, I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

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14. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch by Mary McMyne

16. The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch

By: Mary McMyne

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put h… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

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  • fiction
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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18. A Ladder to the Sky

By: John Boyne

4.21

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—b… read more

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  • fiction
"I had told the truth, or a version of it, anyway."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"I think Maurice is whatever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be it. He's an operator, that's for sure."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"I've known a lot of whores in my life," added Gore, [...]. "Both men and women. And in general, I've always found them to be good company, with a highly evolved sense of honor. A whore will never che…"

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

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19. Ecstasy

By: Mary Sharratt

3.77

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman’s life would define and… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim             Morris

20. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

By: Jim Morris

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more

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Cover of Appalachian Book of the Dead by Dale Neal

21. Appalachian Book of the Dead

By: Dale Neal

3.46

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Angel Garcia Jones left a trail of murders before disappearing into the deep woods of Yonah, North … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

Michael Crichton

3.91

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Lone Women

Victor LaValle

3.72

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Thistlefoot

GennaRose Nethercott

3.96

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Paul Tremblay

3.45

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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William Kent Krueger

4.29

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