Biblio File
New York Times Read Alikes: August 1, 2016
Everything old is new again this week, as a 2003 Nicholas Sparks book regains a spot in the top five.
#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Black Widow by Daniel Silva, more juicy spy series:
The John Corey series, starting with Plum Island, by Nelson DeMille
The Stone Barrington series, starting with New York Dead, by Stuart Woods
The John Wells series, starting with The Faithful Spy, by Alex Berenson
#2 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, more stories told from multiple perspectives:
And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff
#3 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, more British love stories:
Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope
One Day by David Nicholls
The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
#4 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Before the Fall by Noah Hawley, more intricately plotted suspense:
The Whites by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
#5 Recommendations for readers who enjoyedThe Guardian by Nicholas Sparks, more romance with a suspenseful twist:
Mean Streak by Sandra Brown
Into the Fire by Suzanne Brockmann
Prey by Linda Howard
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