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New York Times Read Alikes: September 6, 2015
A couple of popular suspense series enter the top five this week with new additions, including a Jack Reacher short story by Lee Child.
#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Friction by Sandra Brown, some enduring legal thrillers:
The Firm by John Grisham
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
#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 Nesbo
#3 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
#4 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
#5 Recommendations for readers who like Jack Reacher (Small Wars by Lee Child), you may also enjoy:
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
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New York Times Read Alikes: September 6, 2015
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