31 must-read audiobook books like Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel

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Just Like Mother

By: Anne Heltzel

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped …

If you liked the audiobook plot in Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel , here is a list of 31 books like this:

Cover of Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

1. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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2. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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4. Just Like Mother

By: Anne Heltzel

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped … read more

Similar categories in Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • cult classics
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Hide book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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6. 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 Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Looking Glass Sound book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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8. 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 Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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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

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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 House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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11. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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12. Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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13. How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix

3.68

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—a… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"But if we weren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t choose to be friends. We’re different people with different values, and we’re also adults who can choose who we want to spend our time with…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop tho…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

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14. Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gri… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Such Sharp Teeth book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's We Spread book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

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17. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Ghost Eaters book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. My Darling Girl

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mot… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's My Darling Girl book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Children on the Hill

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.86

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, which brilliantly e… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's The Children on the Hill book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

3.80

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Sundial book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

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21. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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22. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Delicate Condition

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's Delicate Condition book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Sometimes it felt like the continuation of our species was an ongoing experiment being performed on the backs of women. Or on our wombs."

-Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

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24. 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

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Such a Pretty Smile

By: Kristi DeMeester

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-forc… read more

Similar categories in Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. The Return

By: Rachel Harrison

3.38

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An edgy and haunting debut novel about a group of friends who reunite after one of them has returne… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's The Return book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it’s"

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"It was her coping mechanism - tying ribbons over open wounds."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

Cover of Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

27. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gailey's Just Like Home book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

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28. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. 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 Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

30. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Last Housewife

By: Ashley Winstead

3.70

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's The Last Housewife book and Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother

  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She thrust a pamphlet at me. Suicide Prevention Hotline , it said. Her voice was soaked in reassurance, "No matter what you're feeling, I promise it gets better." I stared at her until she staggered …"

-Ashley Winstead, The Last Housewife

30 best-selling fiction books like Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Just Like Mother

Anne Heltzel

3.70

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20 best-selling fiction books like Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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