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A tender, blood-soaked road trip through the lonely landscape of adolescence and monstrous hunger. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Bones & All.
- lonely
- eerie
- bittersweet
- desolate
- 01
The Book Eaters
Sunyi Dean
A dark, visceral fairy tale about the terrifying lengths a mother will go to protect her monstrous child.
- 02
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
A delightfully repulsive plunge into the mind of a deeply unhappy woman waiting for a spark to ignite her suffocating life.
- 03
The reapers are the angels
Alden Bell
A lyrical, Southern Gothic road trip through a ruined America, where beauty and brutality walk hand in hand.
- 04
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers
A decadent, blood-soaked feast of a novel that savors the darkest extremes of female appetite.
- 05
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
A blood-soaked love letter to slasher films wrapped around a raw, beating heart of teenage trauma.
- 06
Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
A darkly pragmatic fairy tale where a reluctant heroine and her misfit companions dismantle a happily-ever-after gone wrong.
- 07
Just Like Home
Sarah Gailey
A claustrophobic, dread-soaked exploration of the terrifying, unconditional love between a daughter and her monster.
- 08
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
A deeply unsettling descent into backwoods terror, anchored by a fiercely relatable narrator and her very good dog.
- 09
Down among the sticks and bones
Seanan McGuire
A dark, lyrical fairy tale about the monstrous expectations placed on little girls and the terrifying, beautiful worlds they escape to.
- 10
The Seas
Samantha Hunt
A surreal, modern gothic exploration of grief where the boundaries between land, sea, and sanity wash away.
- 11
Not Even Bones
Rebecca Schaeffer
A bloody, unapologetic thriller that asks what pieces of your humanity you are willing to carve away to survive.
- 12
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
A surreal, razor-sharp fever dream that maps the violence and desire inscribed upon women's bodies.
