Biblio File
New York Times Read Alikes: October 18, 2015
A story about a house with a horrific past and the follow up to wildly popular Me Before You join the top 5 this week.
#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Martian by Andy Weir, more survival stories:
Annihilation by Jeff Vadermeer
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro
Lock In by John Scalzi
#2 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Murder House by James Patterson and David Ellis, more creepy houses:
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Shining by Stephen King (technically a hotel)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
#3 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed After You by Jojo Moyes, more character-driven romance:
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
One Day by David Nicholls
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
#4 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Make Me by Lee Child, more cool “Reacheresque” characters:
Jim Lasiter from Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage
Parker in Richard Stark’s The Hunter
The Gunslinger in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
#5 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz, more Swedish crime fiction:
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
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