Biblio File
New York Times Read Alikes: August 9, 2015
Finished Go Set a Watchman this weekend? Or The Girl On the Train? Looking for more? Here are this week's read alikes. Enjoy!
#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, more Southern gothic:
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
#2 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, more suspense novels told from multiple perspectives:
And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Son by Jo Nesbø
#3 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Grey by E.L. James, more novels about sexual dominance and submission:
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Henry and June by Anais Nin
The Key by Junʼichirō Tanizaki
#4 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Good Girl by Mary Kubica, more novels about amnesia:
Terms & Conditions by Robert Glancy
Bank of the Black Sheep by Robert Lewis
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
#5 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, more titles with blind protagonists.
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
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