12 Top fantasy books like The Cloisters by Katy Hays

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Similar categories in Alex Michaelides's The Fury book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"Character is fate"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Love is mutual respect, and constancy- and friendship"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Do not despair at being different. For that very difference, initially such a source of shame, so humiliating, and painful, will one day become a badge of honor and pride"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

Similar categories in Alice Hoffman's The Invisible Hour book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• fantasy
• fiction
• audiobook

"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• audiobook

" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• gothic
• fiction
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Michelle Min Sterling's Camp Zero book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• fiction
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

Similar categories in Katy Hays's The Cloisters book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• gothic
• mystery thriller
• art
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Life after parents is like a clean slate. [Rachel Mondray]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"...time made it possible to revisit even the hardest places. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"Era difícil no notar el peso del pasado a nuestro alrededor. Al fin de cuentas, ¿los museos no eran en realidad mausoleos?"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

Similar categories in Laurie Lico Albanese's Hester book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"The letter A is red,"

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

"Isobel, you're in my veins now--you know it, don't you? You're in my blood."

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

"...history isn't what's written or told. History is hidden away in dark corners and shadows..."

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

"But there's another kind of strength we've got...It comes from knowing the difference between who you are and who they think you are."

-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's The Golden Spoon book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"Sometimes we must do what we can to keep our mistakes a secret, don't we?"

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"It's an optimistic scene of pastel colors and light woods. One that lends itself well to the show's folksy niceness."

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"Recipes are like architecture; a combination of tested methods with personal elements is what makes a bake memorable."

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"They are all unique and lovingly constructed. There's one for a chocolate ganache tart striped with hazelnut and praline, a honey cake with orange marmalade filling, coconut cream-filled doughnuts wi…"

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• audiobook

"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2) book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler."

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"Life is cruel. Magic is real. And I’m not ready to die"

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"She was the kind of girl who was always okay. “A survivor,"

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"Stories exist in all worlds. They are immutable. Like gold."

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

Similar categories in Sarah Penner's The London Séance Society book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• art
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Similar categories in Julia Bartz's The Writing Retreat book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual."

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"Where did one's power lie in a world that stripped it from you, over and over again? How could we reclaim it when dominant forces dangled it over our heads, shouting, "only the strong survive?"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"That was the way of the world: if you were a woman, then you had a job to do, and that was to pretend to love everyone else walking all over your body, leaving imprints on your face. You were suppose…"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

Similar categories in Emma Törzs's Ink Blood Sister Scribe book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• audiobook

"Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"...the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's Spells for Forgetting book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"There are spells for breaking and spells for mending, but there are no spells for forgetting."

-Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

"There were tales that only the island knew. Ones that had never been told. I knew, because I was one of them."

-Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Villa book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• gothic
• mystery thriller
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook

"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Katy Hays's The Cloisters

• mystery thriller
• fiction
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• audiobook