9 best-selling mystery books like Fell by Jenn Ashworth

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Fell

By: Jenn Ashworth

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and otherworldly tale of the impact on one family of a guest with seemingly magical powe…

If you liked the mystery plot in Fell by Jenn Ashworth , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Fen

By: Daisy Johnson

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familia… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Johnson's Fen book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no."

-Daisy Johnson, Fen

"Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs…"

-Daisy Johnson, Fen

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2. The Loney

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Fell

By: Jenn Ashworth

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and otherworldly tale of the impact on one family of a guest with seemingly magical powe… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Ashworth's Fell book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • contemporary
  • paranormal

4. Hot Milk

By: Deborah Levy

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Hardcover

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Hot Milk book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Notes from a Small Island

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more

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6. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

Similar categories in J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. Revolutionary Road

By: Richard Yates

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more

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8. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Antarctica book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

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9. Case Study

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more

Similar categories in Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

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10. The Miseducation of Cameron Post

By: Emily M. Danforth

4.07

Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Reli… read more

Similar categories in Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Let's rock this shit."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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11. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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12. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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13. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

Similar categories in Alan Garner's Treacle Walker book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Quinn's The Whalebone Theatre book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

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16. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • fiction
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17. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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18. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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19. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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20. Platform Seven

By: Louise Doughty

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more

Similar categories in Louise Doughty's Platform Seven book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

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21. Free Love

By: Tessa Hadley

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Hadley's Free Love book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. 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

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's The Book of Accidents book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
Cover of The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1) by Charlotte Vassell

23. The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

By: Charlotte Vassell

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You know how they live. This is how they die... Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Vassell's The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1) book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No one used the phrase "force of nature" in a positive way. It's meant for floods, and volcanoes, and hurricanes. I'm a woman, not a geographical phenomenon."

-Charlotte Vassell, The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

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24. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Cover of Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights by Tanya Kirk

25. Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights

By: Tanya Kirk

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it w… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Kirk's Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • paranormal
  • fiction
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26. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's The Perfect Golden Circle book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Burnt Sugar

By: Avni Doshi

3.26

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Uma história de obsessões e traição. Uma história de amor envenenada, cujos protagonistas, ao contr… read more

Similar categories in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"

-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

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28. Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • contemporary
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

Cover of Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy

29. Water Shall Refuse Them

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.45

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her… read more

Similar categories in Lucie McKnight Hardy's Water Shall Refuse Them book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Wished

By: Lissa Evans

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ed and his sister Roo are faced with the most boring half-term holiday in history: five days spent … read more

Similar categories in Lissa Evans's Wished book and Jenn Ashworth's Fell

  • magical realism
  • fantasy

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3.76

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3.70

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