#readalikes

[brightbeautifulthings]

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black & Sunshine by Robin McKinley

WHY:

Strong female characters

Vampires as villains

Romantic subplots

Unique world-building

#the coldest girl in coldtown #holly black #sunshine #robin mckinley #vampire fiction #readalikes #growing out of ya #young adult fiction #adult fiction #paranormal

[rockislandadultreads]

Book Recommendations: For Fans of… Knives Out 

Did you enjoy the newest Knives Out mystery, Glass Onion? Here are some read-alikes you may enjoy!

Secrets of the Nile by Tasha Alexander 

Lord Bertram Deeley, a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities is entertaining his closest friends at a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor when he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast, a victim of the lethal poison cyanide. Who amongst this group of his nearest and dearest would want to kill their generous host: an archeologist whose dig Deeley was funding until he suddenly withdrew support? A powerful politician whose career Deeley had secretly destroyed? A dyspeptic aristocratic English spinster whose hired travelling companion seems determined to protect her employer? Or even the formidable Mrs. Hargreaves, Lady Emily’s mother-in-law, who may have spurned the advances of Lord Deeley when they were both younger? A key clue may lie with several ancient ushabtis, exquisite three-thousand-year-old sculptures that played a role in yet another murder in Ancient Egypt, a crime with a very real link to Lord Deeley’s death. Lady Emily and Colin gather their suspects together to reveal the identity of a killer whose motive is as shocking as it is brilliant.

This is the 16th volume in the “Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries” series. 

The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith 

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult - the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division. These are their stories.

The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perpetrate such a crime and why? Next: a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. But how on earth do you search for someone who doesn't exist? And in the final investigation: eerie secrets that are revealed under a full moon may not seem so supernatural in the light of day. No case is too unusual, too complicated, or too, well insignificant for this squad to solve.

The team: Ulf “the Wolf” Varg, the top dog, thoughtful and diligent; Anna Bengsdotter, who's in love with Varg's car (and possibly Varg too); Carl Holgersson, who likes nothing more than filling out paperwork; and Erik Nykvist, who is deeply committed to fly fishing.

This is the first volume in the “Detective Varg” series.

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray 

The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances - characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it’s clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they’re all shocked when Wickham turns up murdered - except, of course, for the killer hidden in their midst.

Nearly everyone at the house party is a suspect, so it falls to the party’s two youngest guests to solve the mystery: Juliet Tilney, the smart and resourceful daughter of Catherine and Henry, eager for adventure beyond Northanger Abbey; and Jonathan Darcy, the Darcys’ eldest son, whose adherence to propriety makes his father seem almost relaxed. The unlikely pair must put aside their own poor first impressions and uncover the guilty party - before an innocent person is sentenced to hang.

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz 

Alan Conway is a bestselling crime writer. His editor, Susan Ryeland, has worked with him for years, and she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. Alan's traditional formula pays homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. It's proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.

When Susan receives Alan's latest manuscript, in which Atticus Pünd investigates a murder at Pye Hall, an English manor house, she has no reason to think it will be any different from the others. There will be dead bodies, a cast of intriguing suspects, and plenty of red herrings and clues. But the more Susan reads, the more she’s realizes that there's another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript - one of ambition, jealousy, and greed - and that soon it will lead to murder.

This is the first volume in the “Susan Ryeland” series. 

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands - the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.

Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.

The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. Now one of them is dead... and another of them did it. Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?

#mysteries #murder mystery #fiction #knives out #readalikes #book recommendations #book recs #reading recommendations #reading recs #library books #to read #TBR pile #tbr #booklr #book tumblr #book blog

[cheshirelibrary]

6 Vengeful Books Like John Wick

[via Book Riot]

Hollywood’s favorite revenge franchise, John Wick, continues with John Wick: Chapter 4 this month. Full of over-the-top violence, great fight choreography, and he’s-so-wholesome-we-don’t-deserve-him Keanu Reaves, this franchise is huge. But when the credits roll, what if you want more vengeful tales? Why, there are books like John Wick, of course.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

Three Assassins by Kōtarō Isaka

When the Reckoning Comes by Latanya McQueen

Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz

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#cheshire library #if you like #john wick #readalikes #revenge fiction

[signal-failure]

Suspense Readalikes: The Luckiest Girl Alive and Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

In The Luckiest Girl Alive, by Jessica Knoll,  TifAni never speaks about the awful secrets in her past. She’s rebranded herself as upscale Ani, with a high-powered magazine job, an eating disorder, and blue-blood fiancé. But a new movie about the horrific school attack she survived years ago threatens to unearth all her secrets. In Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead, by Jenny Hollander, Charlie…

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#Jenny Hollander #Jessica Knoll #Nickname Fakeout #readalikes

[fated-mates]

Today we start one of our new features for Season Five: If You Liked…Read This! We begin with Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis, a book that took romance and BookTok by storm last year when it burst onto the NYT best seller list and hung out there for nearly a year, bringing so many new readers (and Reylos!) to romance.

This one is full of tropes romance loves, and we take them topic by topic, recommending read alikes for everything from grumpy/sunshine, to academic romance, to STEM heroines, to that spicy sex scene that was a delightfully unexpected surprise! That, and we’ve got a bunch of Reylo fic recommended from Ali herself (check the end of show notes)!

S05.04: What to Read If You Liked The Love Hypothesis...

#ali hazelwood #the love hypothesis #readalikes #reylo #reylo fic #stem heroine #Youtube

[novelistra]

Swashbucklers and fans of #OurFlagMeansDeath! These books feature appeals such as pirates, chosen family, opposites-attract romance, reimagined history, or a cheerful "be gay, do crime" attitude. Search UI 453488 in NoveList. Flyer made in LibraryAware https://libraryaware.com/2HZ3H2

#our flag meets death #readalikes #forfansof

[cupofteajones]

Books of 2023: "The Stranded" by @sarahdanielsbooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 WOW... just WOW! This was such an amazing ride. I never read a dystopian like this one! I was turned off from the genre after reading "The Hunger Games." But after reading this "The Stranded," if they turn out to be like this, I will be reading more of the genre. It was so well written and filled with everything that will have a reader on the edge of your seat: action, amazing world building, and great character development. All great aspects that make it one of my favorites of 2023. Don't know if I can wait for the second book in the summer but I'll try! 😊 The second picture was the first try of taking the picture... a certain feline wanted to join the fun! Remember you can watch the recording of my wonderful chat with @sarahdanielsbooks by visiting the link in my bio! @sourcebooksfire #bookreview #bookblogger #books2023 #ukyabooks #UKYA #dystopianfiction #dystopianya #yabooks #cupofteabooksof2023 #2023debuts #bestbooksof2023 #books #bookstagram #readalikes https://www.instagram.com/p/CosjBQmPn18/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bookreview #bookblogger #books2023 #ukyabooks #ukya #dystopianfiction #dystopianya #yabooks #cupofteabooksof2023 #2023debuts #bestbooksof2023 #books #bookstagram #readalikes

[teencenterspl]

Our Instagram will be on a little break the rest of the week, so we wanted to make sure we got you all prepped for this Friday when Hocus Pocus 2 is released! Check out our readalikes and get excited for spooky season!

#smithpubliclibrary #wideawakewylie #wylietx #readalikes #readingrecommendations #currentlyreading #yalit #teenlit #halloween #witchyreads #hocuspocus #hocuspocus2

[urne-buriall]

Hii! Do you have any book recommendations for people who liked your time has come today series or generally a favourite books list that you don’t mind sharing?

you ask the million-dollar question. I read a lot and love making comparisons, but it's easier with my other works than with "time has come today", specifically

there's what I know it is (adventurous, emotional, romantic, self-reflective) and what I hope it is (compelling, original, occasionally profound). it features a classic hero's journey, detailed character study of our favourite repressed bisexual man, all my thoughts and feelings about the tragedy of time travel - alongside my damned constant sense of hope. it was basically written because I wanted it and didn't have anything else like it

for time travel with romantic threads you might enjoy This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. the writer I find most similar to my style in terms of being funny and spooky is T. Kingfisher (Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, and more). she has this merrily macabre sensibility, very fresh fantasy concepts, believable and awesome side characters, and an underlying belief that virtue and courtesy aren't outdated concepts or that hard work is worth doing

indirect inspirations would be something like The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, for when you're a boy mishandling your hurt and trauma mostly through arrogant denial, or True Grit by Charles Portis for a very solid adventure story with a fantastic lead character, and which I see as a lesson in plot-focus (tell a story that matters intensely to the characters involved, even if it has no grand scope or effect in the larger world, and you've told a story worth reading)

other authors I generally love: Shirley Jackson, Victor LaValle, Julian Barnes, Susanna Clarke, Helen Oyeyemi, Umberto Eco, Donna Tartt, & so many more

#ask #time has come today #I love this ask and love talking about books but this is the one I find the hardest #if others have readalikes please share!! #there are also lots of classics that remain my bread and butter as well as some of the less Rational philosophy #some other stunners I read recently were The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill and Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

[mercymornsimpathizer]

ngl I love recommending books if any of u ever want book recs hit me up

#want to add another book rec directory to my neocities but the only book that i seek out readalikes for is the secret history #and well. almost all tsh readalikes are bad. lol. #but fr i read almost all genres if u want anything other than romance recs i got u

[mermaidsirennikita]

saw a review comparing When He Was Wicked and The Earl Takes All, and I gotta say, we really need to put more thought into comparisons because while I like WHWW quite a bit actually, there is NO. COMPARISON between Michael “oh my cousin died and I’m in love with his wife so I’m gonna run away to Exotic India for years and when I come back I’ll sorta wait until I realize she’s into me and then I’ll chase her to Scotland” Stirling

and

Edward (Gorilla Twin) “well my identical twin died so I’m just gonna pretend to be him for a few short months for the TOTAL BENEFIT of his pregnant wife I have a thing for, and if she jacks me off in the bath then what is a man to do other than fingerblast her in return I’m only a gentleman and hey why not just continue pretending to be him for the rest of my life she and I get along GREAT and I wanna have so much sex with her it’s love we’re good how could this POSSIBLY go wrong” Whatever The Fuck His Last Name Is

#romance novel blogging #francesca getting hot and bothered and splitting to scotland #is not the same as julia running down the halls like pussy freshly eaten screaming #when he was wicked is really good! best JQ book i’ve read! #but i would not recommend one of these books as a “readalike” to the other lmao be srs

[brightbeautifulthings]

The VVitch (2015) & In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt

WHY:

Puritanism + witchcraft

Historical settings

Isolated woods

Ambiguous messages

#readalikes #the witch #the vvitch #in the house in the dark of the woods #laird hunt #horror #horror film #horror fiction #adult fiction

[rockislandadultreads]

Read-Alike Recommendations: The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk

Join us this Thursday, January 12th, at 5pm for our inaugural 150th Book Club meeting where we will be discussing The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk!

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets - an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

This is the first volume in “The Cemetery of Forgotten Books” series. 

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues - a bee, a key, and a sword - that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. 

What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians - it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose - in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence.

Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.

As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war.

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

What is the purpose of a map?

Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field and Nell’s personal hero. But she hasn’t seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap gas station highway map.

But when Dr. Young is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library, with the very same seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, Nell can’t resist investigating. To her surprise, she soon discovers that the map is incredibly valuable and exceedingly rare. In fact, she may now have the only copy left in existence... because a mysterious collector has been hunting down and destroying every last one - along with anyone who gets in the way.

But why? To answer that question, Nell embarks on a dangerous journey to reveal a dark family secret and discovers the true power that lies in maps...

#readalikes #mystery #mysteries #fiction #books about libraries #books about books #library books #book recommendations #book recs #reading recommendations #reading recs #TBR pile #tbr #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog

[cheshirelibrary]

7 Gothic Novels for Fans of ‘Rebecca’ 

[via BookBub Blog]

Like du Maurier’s classic Rebecca, these clever tales feature creepy, atmospheric settings and characters with dark, twisted secrets. If you loved Rebecca, you are sure to find a few more books to add to your to-be-read pile with this list.

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

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#cheshire library #book list #if you like #gothic novels #readalikes

[childlikegoblinqueen]

Book Rec!

Hey all! If you’re following me because of my TOH fanfics and/or other content of mine, consider reading Juno Dawson’s Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series!

I generally read horror/suspense… and while this series has a few elements of both, it’s a really great refreshingly complex series that’s a direct answer to certain TERF-y attitudes of a certain author who will not be named.

I think Luz, Eda and all the other weirdos would devour it!

I’m currently reading book 2!

#new books #queer books #witchythings #toh readalikes #book recommendations

[phaedraismyusername]

If I can convince anyone to read only one thing this month then this is The One

Natural Beauty is a sad girl in her 20s book about assimilation and acceptance while being a scathing commentary on beauty and wellness culture and it is handsdown my favourite thing I've read recently.

Tl;dr - If you love Bunny and hate Goop then it is 100% worth a try

DNI if body horror is too much for you ❤️

#2nd times a charm #natural beauty #ling ling huang #booklr #book recs #this is genuinely so good #i inhaled it in one sitting #its only 250ish pages #and its a debut! #readalike #bunny #mona awad #oh and fuck goop #and all its like #cant believe they marked this as mature content the first time #ITS AN ARMPIT #and theyve done it again 💀💀💀 #this is so dumb #whatever #i quit lol