20 best-selling thriller books like The Companion by Katie Alender

Cover of The Companion by Katie Alender

The Companion

By: Katie Alender

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her famil…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Companion by Katie Alender , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

1. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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2. The Quiet Tenant

By: Clémence Michallon

3.85

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New Yo… read more

Similar categories in Clémence Michallon's The Quiet Tenant book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I’m sorry,"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

"This is the story I tell myself. No one’s around to tell me it doesn’t make sense. It starts out as a tribute and ends in selfishness. It isn’t about her. Not really. It’s about me and the parts of m…"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

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3. The Companion

By: Katie Alender

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her famil… read more

Similar categories in Katie Alender's The Companion book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • gothic
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

4. Rules for Vanishing

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"What happened in the dark?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"I cannot tell if I am lying."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"What do you wear when you go to meet a ghost?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"Do you want to know where Lucy went? She went to play the game. You can play, too. Find a partner. Find a key. Find the road. You have two days."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

5. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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6. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

Cover of Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall

7. Our Last Echoes

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.56

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

A supernatural thriller about one girl's hunt for the truth about her mother's disappearance. So… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Our Last Echoes book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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9. Harrow Lake

By: Kat Ellis

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The daughter of a horror film director is not afraid of anything--until she gets to Harrow Lake. … read more

Similar categories in Kat Ellis's Harrow Lake book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"They stop looking. Everyone stops looking."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"When you're alone in the dark, impossible things grow bones and flesh."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"It was a very meta way to die — Optimal, even: to become a story while making one."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"My mother believed in monsters. At least, I think she did. But what do I know about my mother really?"

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

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10. The Haunting

By: Natasha Preston

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another pulse-pound… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Haunting book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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11. Theme Music

By: T. Marie Vandelly

3.76

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

An utterly propulsive and unpredictable psychological thriller from stunning new talent T. Marie Va… read more

Similar categories in T. Marie Vandelly's Theme Music book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. The Island

By: Natasha Preston

3.47

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, another pulse-pounding re… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Island book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky

13. The Mary Shelley Club

By: Goldy Moldavsky

3.92

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few sch… read more

Similar categories in Goldy Moldavsky's The Mary Shelley Club book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"Fear is where the truth lies."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"He's the Stu to my Billy Loomis"

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"If you want this to be over, just make sure she screams."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"We were staked out at the playground across the street, an optimal vantage for us to watch the house, and for me to watch Bram watch his girlfriend get scared."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

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14. Horrid

By: Katrina Leno

3.56

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores theme… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Horrid book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary, as far as Jane was concerned."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"... her ears were overcome by the sound of her own blood sloshing angrily through her veins, the sound of crashing waves, persistent and loud."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"Her head was on fire, pounding. She felt like she was on a boat like the bed was gently rocking back and forth, tossed among huge rolling waves."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

Cover of These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

15. These Fleeting Shadows

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, ca… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's These Fleeting Shadows book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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16. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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17. That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

4.12

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and … read more

Similar categories in Megan Lally's That's Not My Name book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

18. Don't Tell a Soul

By: Kirsten Miller

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her. … read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"You sure you won’t get lost?"

-Kirsten Miller, Don't Tell a Soul

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19. The Girls Are Never Gone

By: Sarah Glenn Marsh

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. Privately, she’s a supernatural skeptic. But publicly, she… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Glenn Marsh's The Girls Are Never Gone book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
"I wonder whether Atheleen or Scarlett used to stay up late into the night, listening for the scrape of something unseen against their walls, or wake up breathless from nightmares about this place - t…"

-Sarah Glenn Marsh, The Girls Are Never Gone

Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

20. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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21. Eventide

By: Sarah Goodman

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

MADNESS, SECRETS, AND LIES Wheeler, Arkansas, 1907 When their father descends into madness af… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Goodman's Eventide book and Katie Alender's The Companion

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror

20 Top fiction books like The Companion by Katie Alender

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Quiet Tenant

Clémence Michallon

3.85

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The Companion

Katie Alender

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Rules for Vanishing

Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

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Transform Your Habits

The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand

3.67

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