Books like Carrie
12 books with a reading profile close to Carrie by Stephen King. Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
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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2
The Fisherman
by John Langan
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Widowers Abe and Dan attempt to manage their grief through marathon fishing trips in upstate New York.
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3
Everything's Eventual
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
The book collects fourteen of Stephen King's stories, mostly from the 1990s and 2000s.
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4
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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5
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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6
Insomnia
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Set in Derry, Maine, the story follows Ralph Roberts, an elderly widower suffering from worsening sleeplessness.
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7
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
by Mokumokuren
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Yoshiki and Hikaru are best friends in a small, isolated village in rural Japan.
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8
Sign Here
by Claudia Lux
Also clear-cut and escapist · 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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9
We Sold Our Souls
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Kris Pulaski was the lead guitarist for Dürt Würk, a heavy metal band on the verge of stardom in the 1990s until their lead singer, Terry Hunt, betrayed the group for a solo contract.
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10
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his group of survivors attempt to secure a permanent life within the walls of an abandoned prison, but their isolation ends when a helicopter crash leads them to the town of Woodbury.
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11
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1846, the Donner Party wilderness trek toward California falters as a series of unexplained disappearances and grisly deaths plague the wagon trail.
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12
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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