17 Top fiction books like The Boy in the Canvas by Christopher Sweet

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The Boy in the Canvas

By: Christopher Sweet

4.44

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

“You’ve gotta listen to me a second,” she said, her face suddenly serious. “If you can do what I do…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Boy in the Canvas by Christopher Sweet , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. How to Survive a Horror Movie

By: Seth Grahame-Smith , Wes Craven

3.71

Format: 498 pages,

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic hill… read more

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2. Harold and the Purple Crayon

By: Crockett Johnson

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

"One night, after thinking it over for some time, Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight.… read more

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3. Claws! (Goosebumps: Hall Of Horrors, #1)

By: R.L. Stine

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Hall of Horrors is open. Step into the nightmare! Mickey is put in charge of his vacationing ne… read more

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4. Coming Home

By: Kennedy Ryan

3.88

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

They got everything they wanted...but never had each other. Touré Wallace and Niomi Spencer were… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • fiction
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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6. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • fiction
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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7. Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more

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  • fiction
"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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8. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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9. The Couple in the Cabin

By: Daniel Hurst

3.89

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

They’ll do anything to get out. She’ll do anything to keep them in. When happily married Grace c… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Break Shot: My First 21 Years

By: James Taylor

3.96

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

James Taylor presenting and narrating the first twenty-one years of his life. read more

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12. The Innocents

By: Michael Crummey

3.78

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more

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  • fiction
"A body must bear what can't be helped."

-Michael Crummey, The Innocents

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13. We Don't Swim Here

By: Vincent Tirado

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fa… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Junie

By: Chelene Knight

3.78

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more

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  • fiction
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15. SpookyBoo's Night Frights

By: Celina Myers

3.83

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

This program contains mature themes and listener discretion is advised. There is graphic imagery an… read more

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  • horror
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16. The Wren in the Holly Library

By: K.A. Linde

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can you love the dark when you know what it hides? Some things aren’t supposed to exist outside … read more

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  • fiction
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17. Earth Spells Are Easy (Grimoires of a Middle-aged Witch, #1)

By: Renee George

4.20

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

As a forty-three-year-old, newly divorced, single mom, I know two things for certain: starting over… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Claw Resurgence (Claw #2)

By: Katie Berry

4.22

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sequel to Katie Berry's Award-winning Novel, CLAW: A Canadian Thriller is Here! Their shatte… read more

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  • horror
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19. Claw (Claw #1)

By: Katie Berry

3.76

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

Lawless, British Columbia is on edge after a powerful earthquake jolts the region, quickly followed… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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20. William

By: Mason Coile

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Tired Alien

By: Google

3.96

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Meet Ray, an alien from solerius, a planet with two suns that shine so bright he just can't get any… read more

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22. Somewhere There's Music

By: Sean Bedell

4.40

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In this stark and unsparing coming-of-age story, the shy and intelligent Joel watches helplessly as… read more

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23. The Book of Witching

By: C.J. Cooke

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and reve… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Sons of Brutality

By: Daniel Jeudy

3.90

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

When Detective Addison Mowbray begins investigating the murders of two young women in the Hollywood… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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25. The Boy in the Canvas

By: Christopher Sweet

4.44

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

“You’ve gotta listen to me a second,” she said, her face suddenly serious. “If you can do what I do… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Sweet's The Boy in the Canvas book and Christopher Sweet's The Boy in the Canvas

  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Sea Stars Christmas: A Stella Mare Story

By: Annie M. Ballard

3.88

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Mackenzie and Declan need a miracle. A Christmas miracle.Mackenzie wants to belong – to Declan, her… read more

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27. Monsters In The Fog: Atlantic Canadian Stories by Atlantic Canadian Authors

By: Various

4.38

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Monsters are in the Maritimes, and they found their way into this book… The beasts inside come in s… read more

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28. Memories in the Fog: Saint John Stories by Saint John Authors

By: Collaboration

4.82

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Step back to snippets in time with this collection of stories and poems by Saint John authors. Eac… read more

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29. Houses in the Fog (In the Fog #1)

By: Sandra O'Driscoll

4.67

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

In a city as old as Saint John, every house has a tale or two to tell. In this collection of stori… read more

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30. My Beautiful Ghosts: A Woman's Journey of Healing After Losing Her Beloved Dog Sled Team

By: E Whelly

4.33

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

"Everyone has been there - fighting the low points of life and the challenges to recover. The autho… read more

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31. Lights In The Fog: Atlantic Canadian Stories by Atlantic Canadian Authors

By: Various

4.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Exiting from the darkness, Atlantic Canadian writers cast lights on a colourful variety of genres i… read more

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Bad Cree

Jessica Johns

3.92

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We Don't Swim Here

Vincent Tirado

3.45

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SpookyBoo's Night Frights

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3.83

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4.22

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Marcus Kliewer

3.84

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Josh Winning

3.69

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J.H. Markert

4.11

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