AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

A Study in Drowning

Ava Reid · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

The Scorpio Races

Maggie Stiefvater · 435 pages

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She

Slow Burn RomanceEerieAtmosphericLyrical Prose
❤️

Where the Dark Stands Still

A.B. Poranek · 336 pages

Forced ProximityGothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceAtmospheric
❤️

The Knight and the Moth

Rachel Gillig · 400 pages

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s wi

Gothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceEnemies to LoversAtmospheric
❤️

Starling House

Alix E. Harrow · 347 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick) Starling House is a gorgeous, modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of Jan

Gothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceAtmosphericEerie
❤️

These Broken Stars

Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner · 381 pages

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more t

Enemies to LoversForced ProximitySlow Burn RomanceEerie
❤️

Gothikana

Runyx

An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong? An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit,

Gothic FictionAtmosphericSlow Burn RomanceEerie
❤️

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 320 pages

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Tabo

Gothic FictionAtmosphericFeminismEerie
🙂

The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield · 424 pages

Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long.

Gothic FictionBookishAtmosphericEerie
🙂

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys · 189 pages

Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of citsion's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". A sensual and protected young woman, the narrator grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold-hearted and prideful R

Gothic FictionAtmosphericEerieFeminism
🙂

Belladonna

Adalyn Grace · 400 pages

> Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers ­– when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.

Gothic FictionSlow Burn RomanceAtmosphericEerie
🙂

The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh · 404 pages

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan

Enemies to LoversSlow Burn RomanceAtmosphericLyrical Prose
🙂

Together We Burn

Isabel Ibañez · 354 pages

Enemies to LoversForced ProximitySlow Burn RomanceAtmospheric
🙂

Sorcery of Thorns

Margaret Rogerson · 456 pages

BookishEnemies to LoversSlow Burn RomanceAtmospheric
🙂

Wisteria

Adalyn Grace · 419 pages

Gothic FictionAtmosphericLyrical ProseEerie
🙂

A River Enchanted

Rebecca Ross · 467 pages

Slow Burn RomanceEnemies to LoversAtmosphericLyrical Prose
🙂

Quicksilver

Callie Hart · 624 pages

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens

Forced ProximityEnemies to LoversSlow Burn RomanceFantasy
🙂

Infinite Shores

Pascale Lacelle · 592 pages

Slow Burn RomanceBookishLyrical ProseAtmospheric
🙂

Famine

Laura Thalassa · 512 pages

Forced ProximityEnemies to LoversSlow Burn RomanceFantasy
🙂

Katabasis

R. F. Kuang · 560 pages

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:The story of a hero’s descent to the underworldAlice L

Forced ProximityBookishFeminismAtmospheric
🙂

Hazelthorn

C.G. Drews · 358 pages

Gothic FictionAtmosphericEerieLyrical Prose
🙂

For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 437 pages

Slow Burn RomanceGothic FictionAtmosphericEerie
🙂

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V E Schwab · 544 pages

This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London

Gothic FictionFeminismLyrical ProseAtmospheric
🙂

The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling · 362 pages

Gothic FictionAtmosphericEerieSlow Burn Romance
🙂

The Angel's Game

Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 537 pages

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel's Game--a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love."The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that, when I opened those windows, its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets I could capture on p

Gothic FictionBookishEerieAtmospheric

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.