19 must-read audiobook books like A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

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A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood…

"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

If you liked the audiobook plot in A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.30

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You never said how you got away from him." I stiffened, the NIghtmare's wicked laugh resonating in the din. When I spoke, the low notes of my voice were slick, as if dipped in oil. "Perhaps it was he…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

"Tell them. Tell them the truth. When your children ask, do not lie- do not hide the risk of magic. Children are strongest when their eyes are clear. Only then can they make their own choices. Only th…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

Cover of Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) by Rachel Gillig

2. Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.44

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.20

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I don’t want to wake up when I’m seventy-four only to realize I haven’t lived. -Thea Attwood"

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

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4. Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The epic conclusion to the intensely romantic and beautifully written story that started in Divine … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Write me a story where there is no ending, Kitt."

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"You are capable of far more than you know. Why do you think I look at you now and marvel? Why do you think I draw close to your kind? I have sung many of you to eternal rest after death, and I have f…"

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"In all my years I have discovered that the most precious of things are often taken for granted and that we tend to let time wheel forward at such a pace that we cannot catch every detail that makes t…"

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

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5. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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6. Bride

By: Ali Hazelwood

4.04

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to si… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Bride book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Ana has been visiting,"

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

"My smell. Do I smell like…?"

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

"I was trying to check my email."

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

"That was a badass speech, Misery."

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

Cover of A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

7. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fae
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

8. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • fae
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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9. Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth #1)

By: Kristen Ciccarelli

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a deva… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Ciccarelli's Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I hate you, Gideon Sharpe. I hate you so much, it hurts. And if you don’t open this door, i"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth #1)

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10. A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

By: Stephanie Garber

4.13

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox ventured to t… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Garber's A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"My turn again."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"Being yours does not make you mine."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"You could never look awful,' he said faintly."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"His heart was racing again, and now so was hers."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

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11. Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

By: Adalyn Grace

4.16

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition features an alternate jacket and a unique hardcover case and … read more

Similar categories in Adalyn Grace's Foxglove (Belladonna, #2) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Look at me."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"You are mine."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"For as long as you’ll have me, you are mine, Signa Farrow. I will burn this world to cinders before I let anyone take you from me"

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"After all she’d overcome, boiling her choices down to Fate made her success feel unearned. Like he somehow had a hand in all her hardest decisions and her biggest triumphs."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

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12. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

Cover of A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1) by Danielle L. Jensen

13. A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

By: Danielle L. Jensen

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also … read more

Similar categories in Danielle L. Jensen's A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You are mine, Born-in-Fire. Even if only the two of us know it."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"You don't attack the strong when you're weak, Freya. You bide your time."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"I will be at your back until I cross the threshold to Valhalla, Born-in-Fire, whether you want me there or not."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"Letting go of my hand, he reached up to touch my face, thumb brushing across the line Vragi’s knife had left on my cheek. “Where is your husband?" What makes you think I’m wed?"

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

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14. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

15. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • fae
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Cover of A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

16. A Fragile Enchantment

By: Allison Saft

3.53

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Fragile Enchantment book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

Cover of Faebound (Faebound, #1) by Saara El-Arifi

17. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • fae
Cover of The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1) by Thea Guanzon

18. The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

By: Thea Guanzon

3.66

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The heart is a battlefield. All Talasyn has ever known is the Hurricane Wars. Growing up an orp… read more

Similar categories in Thea Guanzon's The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I did it,"

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

"And what, pray tell, are you still doing here?"

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

"She bristled. “You are my consort. You don’t get to order me around."

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

"Yes, he's dead, the fool," sighed Daya Odish. "What a pity, I will miss him."

-Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

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19. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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20. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

Cover of What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) by Isabel Ibañez

21. What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

By: Isabel Ibañez

3.90

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Bue… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Ibañez's What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) book and Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Is this it, Whit?"

-Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

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