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Books like Drawing Blood

12 books with a reading profile close to Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    by Stephen Graham Jones

    horror, narrative

    Set against the late nineteenth-century decline of the American bison, the narrative follows an Indigenous protagonist tasked with tracking a predatory figure who targets commercial hide hunters.

  2. 2 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

    Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

    by Shane Hawk

    horror, narrative

    Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C.

  3. 3 Plain Bad Heroines

    Plain Bad Heroines

    by Emily M. Danforth

    horror, narrative

    Emily M.

  4. 4 The Gargoyle

    The Gargoyle

    by Andrew Davidson

    romance, narrative

    A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.

  5. 5 Here on Earth

    Here on Earth

    by Alice Hoffman

    romance, narrative

    March Murray returns with her teenage daughter Gwen to her childhood home in a coastal Massachusetts town after a death in the family.

  6. 6 Tipping the Velvet

    Tipping the Velvet

    by Sarah Waters

    romance, narrative

    In 1890s Whitstable, Nancy Astley lives a quiet life shucking oysters until she becomes obsessed with Kitty Butler, a male impersonator performing at a local music hall.

  7. 7 You Like It Darker

    You Like It Darker

    by Stephen King

    horror, narrative

    This collection has twelve stories by Stephen King, in which ordinary people encounter the strange or the supernatural.

  8. 8 The Museum of Extraordinary Things

    The Museum of Extraordinary Things

    by Alice Hoffman

    romance, narrative

    Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.

  9. 9 Pride

    Pride

    by Ibi Zoboi

    romance, narrative

    In this contemporary remix of Pride and Prejudice, Zuri Benitez lives in a Bushwick apartment with her four sisters while their Brooklyn neighborhood undergoes rapid gentrification.

  10. 10 Her Fearful Symmetry

    Her Fearful Symmetry

    by Audrey Niffenegger

    romance, horror

    Identical twins Julia and Valentina Poole inherit a flat in London bordering Highgate Cemetery from their estranged aunt, Elspeth Noblin.

  11. 11 The Other Bennet Sister

    The Other Bennet Sister

    by Janice Hadlow

    romance, narrative

    Mary Bennet occupies the margins of the Longbourn household, dismissed by her mother for her plainness and overlooked by her sisters.

  12. 12 Talking at Night

    Talking at Night

    by Claire Daverley

    romance, narrative

    Will and Rosie are classmates who belong to different social circles but form a secret bond through late-night conversations.

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