9 Top fantasy books like Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson

Cover of Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson

Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New…

"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

If you liked the fantasy plot in Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie

1. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand

2. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Bridget Collins

3. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte  Wood

4. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson

5. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

Cover of Pity by Andrew McMillan

6. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blackouts by Justin Torres

7. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson

8. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

Cover of A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma by Noreen Masud

9. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

Similar categories in Noreen Masud's A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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10. Hogere machten

By: Joost de Vries

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

De jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw. James Welmoed ontmoet Elizabeth van Elzenburg. Hij is een socia… read more

Similar categories in Joost de Vries's Hogere machten book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • fiction
Cover of Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

11. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Cover of Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

12. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Poor Deer book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

Cover of In het oog by Marijke Schermer

13. In het oog

By: Marijke Schermer

3.92

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Op een dag krijgt Nicola geen geld meer voor haar bacterie-onderzoek, terwijl ze iets groots op het… read more

Similar categories in Marijke Schermer's In het oog book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • fiction
"Ik wist dat volwassen mensen dit soort gesprekken voerden, dit soort gesprekken hoorden te voeren, dat je moest praten en je gevoelens moest uiten en naar de gevoelens van de ander moest luisteren en…"

-Marijke Schermer, In het oog

"Maakt het uit, vroeg ik, maakt het iets uit of je weet waarom iemand je verlaat? Leiden gesprekken over waarom en hoe en met welke gevoelens ergens toe? Het verhaal kan immers een leugen zijn, en de …"

-Marijke Schermer, In het oog

Cover of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

14. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Zero-Sum: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

15. Zero-Sum: Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acc… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Zero-Sum: Stories book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Wrong Norma by Anne Carson

16. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Wrong Norma book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • short stories
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

Cover of The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy  Dunn

17. The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

By: Daisy Dunn

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Dunn's The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • audiobook
Cover of The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews

18. The Puzzle Wood

By: Rosie Andrews

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Puzzle Wood book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu

19. The Goth House Experiment

By: S.J. Sindu

3.56

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Tri… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor

20. The Night Alphabet

By: Joelle Taylor

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana Souhami The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Taylor's The Night Alphabet book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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Ann Leckie

4.05

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Elizabeth Hand

3.35

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The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

Bridget Collins

4.06

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

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Laura Cumming

4.19

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Lucy Jones

4.54

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