Books like Conclave
12 books with a reading profile close to Conclave by Robert Harris. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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1
The Force
by Don Winslow
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Sergeant Denny Malone leads the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an elite NYPD unit authorized to operate with autonomy to disrupt gang violence and drug trafficking.
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2
Before the Fall
by Noah Hawley
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
On a foggy night, a private jet carrying two influential families and a struggling painter named Scott Burroughs crashes into the Atlantic Ocean.
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3
Small Mercies
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Set in South Boston during the 1974 desegregation busing crisis, the story follows Mary Pat Fennessy, a hardened resident of the Commonwealth housing projects.
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4
All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia, confronts a crisis when a school shooting leads to the death of a beloved teacher and the shooter himself.
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5
Genuine Fraud
by E. Lockhart
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Jule West is a young woman with a gift for becoming other people.
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6
A Nearly Normal Family
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Stella is an eighteen-year-old girl in Lund, Sweden, who is accused of the murder of a man in his thirties, whom she had been seeing.
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7
The Girls in the Garden
by Lisa Jewell
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
When Clare moves her two daughters, Grace and Pip, into a communal garden square in London, she seeks a safe haven to recover from a domestic crisis.
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8
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Lydia Smith is a clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore in Denver, a sanctuary for "BookFrogs"—the shop’s eccentric, marginalized regulars.
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9
Ace of Spades
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo are the only Black students at Niveus Private Academy, and both have just been selected as senior prefects.
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10
Sunburn
thriller, narrative
Polly is a woman who leaves her husband and child and settles in a small Delaware town, Belleville, where she meets Adam, a man with his own secrets.
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11
Vanishing Girls
thriller, narrative
Nick and Dara are sisters, once close, now estranged after a car accident that scarred Nick's face and left her with guilt.
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12
What the Dead Know
thriller, narrative
In 1975, two sisters, Heather and Sunny Bethany, disappear from a shopping mall in Bethesda, Maryland, and are never found.
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