10 Top thriller books like House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

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House of Cotton

By: Monica Brashears

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to…

If you liked the thriller plot in House of Cotton by Monica Brashears , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Cover of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

2. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

Cover of The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

3. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • thriller
  • 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

Cover of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

5. 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 Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • 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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6. 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 Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • 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

Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

7. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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8. 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

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Lone Women book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

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

Cover of House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

9. House of Cotton

By: Monica Brashears

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to… read more

Similar categories in Monica Brashears's House of Cotton book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • southern gothic
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

10. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

Cover of Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

11. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Chlorine by Jade Song

12. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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13. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

Cover of The God of Endings by Jacqueline  Holland

14. The God of Endings

By: Jacqueline Holland

3.80

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Holland's The God of Endings book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

15. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Sisters of the Lost Nation book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

Cover of The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

16. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

Cover of Noc poślubna by Przemysław Borkowski

17. Noc poślubna

By: Przemysław Borkowski

3.23

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Obejrzał się za siebie. Nikt oprócz niego nic nie zauważył. Goście siedzieli przy stołach, dwie par… read more

Similar categories in Przemysław Borkowski's Noc poślubna book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • audiobook
Cover of Zła krew by Maciej Rożen

18. Zła krew

By: Maciej Rożen

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

TO MIASTECZKO JEST JAK PRZEDSIONEK PIEKŁA, TRUCIZNA SĄCZY SIĘ DO ŻYŁ KAŻDEGO, KTO TU MIESZKA To… read more

Similar categories in Maciej Rożen's Zła krew book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

Cover of Zjawy i mary (Historie z Etherton, #1) by Katarzyna Kujawska

19. Zjawy i mary (Historie z Etherton, #1)

By: Katarzyna Kujawska

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Niezwykła powieść, w której realizm magiczny, tajemniczość, duchy i wierzenia twórczyni serii Gołob… read more

Similar categories in Katarzyna Kujawska's Zjawy i mary (Historie z Etherton, #1) book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

Cover of Księgarnia Napojów Księżyca by Dongwon Seo

20. Księgarnia Napojów Księżyca

By: Dongwon Seo

2.93

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Podnosząca na duchu, bajkowa opowieść fantasy dla dorosłych, idealna dla fanów książek Wszystko, cz… read more

Similar categories in Dongwon Seo's Księgarnia Napojów Księżyca book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

  • audiobook
Cover of Zanim zostaliśmy potworami by Katniss Hsiao

21. Zanim zostaliśmy potworami

By: Katniss Hsiao

3.69

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Porywający thriller psychologiczny, który w wirtuozowski sposób obnaża naturę seryjnych morderców. … read more

Similar categories in Katniss Hsiao's Zanim zostaliśmy potworami book and Monica Brashears's House of Cotton

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