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Books like Cujo

12 books with a reading profile close to Cujo by Stephen King. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

Thinner

by Richard Bachman

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Billy Halleck, an overweight lawyer, accidentally kills a Romani woman with his car but escapes legal consequences through his connections with a local judge and a police chief.
2

Murder Road

by Simone St. James

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

In 1995, newlyweds July and April are driving to a remote honeymoon cabin when they encounter a bleeding woman on a deserted Michigan road.
3

The Burning Girls

by C.J. Tudor

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Reverend Jack Brooks moves to the rural village of Chapel Croft with teenage daughter Flo, hoping for a fresh start after a tragedy in their previous parish.
4

What Lies in the Woods

by Kate Alice Marshall

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Twenty-two years ago, Naomi Shaw and her two best friends survived a brutal stabbing in the woods.
5

Cold Fire

by Dean Koontz

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, horror

Jim Ironheart lives under the command of a persistent internal voice that compels him to travel across the country to prevent specific, imminent tragedies.
6

Home Before Dark

by Riley Sager

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Maggie Holt grew up in the shadow of House of Horrors, a non-fiction book written by her father about their twenty days living in Baneberry Hall.
7

There's Someone Inside Your House

by Stephanie Perkins

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Makani Young moves from Hawaii to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, hoping to hide a traumatic incident from her past.
8

Firestarter

by Stephen King

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

In 1969, Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a secret government experiment involving a low-grade hallucinogen called Lot Six.
9

We Used to Live Here

by Marcus Kliewer

Also practical and escapist · thriller, horror

Charlie and Eve are flipping a dilapidated house when a stranger knocks on the door, claiming he grew up in the residence and asking to show his family inside.
10

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

by Stephen King

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland wanders off a trail in the Maine-New Hampshire woods during a family hiking trip to escape her mother and brother’s constant bickering.
11

The Ruins

by Scott Smith

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

In the sweltering heat of the Yucatan Peninsula, four American tourists—Jeff, Amy, Eric, and Stacy—join a Greek traveler and a German man named Mathias to locate a missing brother at a remote archaeological dig site.
12

Intensity

by Dean Koontz

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Chyna Shepherd, a young woman shaped by a traumatic childhood, survives a massacre at a remote farmhouse committed by a sociopathic killer named Edgler Vess.

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