Books like Brother Odd
12 books with a reading profile close to Brother Odd by Dean Koontz. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
The September House
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Margaret refuses to leave her Victorian estate, even though every September the walls bleed and the resident ghosts become aggressive.
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2
The Silent Companions
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge moves to the decaying country estate of the Bridge, the ancestral home of her late husband.
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3
Missing Joseph
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
When the vicar of a quiet Lancashire village dies from hemlock poisoning, the local constable initially treats the death as an accidental ingestion of wild herbs.
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4
The Lighthouse Witches
by C.J. Cooke
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1998, single mother Liv arrives on the remote Scottish island of Lòn Mòr with her three daughters to commission a mural inside a decommissioned lighthouse.
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5
The Cloisters
by Katy Hays
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Ann Stilwell moves to New York for a summer internship at The Cloisters, a medieval museum wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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6
Hell Followed With Us
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Benji is a sixteen-year-old transgender boy fleeing the Angels, a fundamentalist cult that triggered a biological apocalypse to cleanse the earth.
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7
Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Chuck Tingle's novel takes place in a Christian conversion therapy camp called Camp Damascus, whose pastor claims to cure queer people.
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8
The Twisted Ones
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
After her hoarder step-grandmother dies, Melissa, known as Mouse, travels to rural North Carolina to clear out a house overflowing with refuse.
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9
The Night Sister
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
The narrative follows Piper and Margot, two sisters who return to their family’s decaying Vermont motel, the Tower, after their childhood friend Amy commits a gruesome triple murder-suicide.
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10
Sign Here
by Claudia Lux
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Peyote Trip is a cubicle-bound employee in the bureaucratic landscape of Hell, specifically working in the Deals Department.
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11
The Walking Dead Vol. 7: Calm before
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his band of survivors establish a fragile domesticity within the fences of an abandoned penitentiary.
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12
The Drowning Kind
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jaxie Brandywine returns to her family estate in Vermont after her sister, Lexie, drowns in the property’s spring-fed pool.
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