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Loved Crows by Anders Fager? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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  1. 1The Haunting of Hill House

    The Haunting of Hill House

    Shirley Jackson

    A classic haunted-house novel about a fragile young woman drawn into a house that seems to act on its own.

  2. 2The Little Stranger

    The Little Stranger

    Sarah Waters

    A slow, unsettling haunting in a crumbling country house, told through the eyes of a doctor who is drawn into the family's decline.

  3. 3The Turn of the Screw

    The Turn of the Screw

    Henry James

    A governess at an isolated country house becomes convinced that ghosts are threatening the children in her care, and the reader is left unsure what is real.

  4. 4We Have Always Lived in the Castle

    We Have Always Lived in the Castle

    Shirley Jackson

    A small, isolated family and their unsettling household form the center of a dark, wry novel about suspicion and belonging.

  5. 5The Secret History

    The Secret History

    Donna Tartt

    A coming-of-age story about young people at a close-knit college whose lives slide into a dark and irreversible event.

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  6. 6The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    Stephen Chbosky

    A teenager's letters trace his first friendships, his trauma and his growing up, in a coming-of-age novel told in a personal voice.

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  7. 7Mexican Gothic

    Mexican Gothic

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    A young woman arrives at a decaying family estate and finds its secrets, in a gothic novel that mixes the haunted house with social history.

  8. 8Rebecca

    Rebecca

    Daphne du Maurier

    A young woman's new home is overshadowed by the memory of its former mistress, in a gothic novel of an unsettling house and an uneasy marriage.

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