Books like Good Me, Bad Me
12 books with a reading profile close to Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land. Inward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Girl A
by Abigail Dean
Also inward-looking and escapist · thriller, narrative
Lexie Gracewell, once known to the media as Girl A, escaped from her parents’ house of horrors where she and her siblings were starved and shackled.
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The Whispers
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, narrative
On a quiet suburban street, the pressure of perfect motherhood shatters when ten-year-old Xavier falls from his bedroom window into a coma.
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3
Whalefall
by Daniel Kraus
thriller, entertainment
Jay Gardiner is a teenager diving off the coast of Monastery Beach to recover his late father’s remains when a massive sperm whale accidentally swallows him whole.
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4
Still Missing
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Annie Sullivan is a thirty-two-year-old real estate agent whose life changes when a stranger abducts her during an open house.
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5
Dear Child
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Lena Beck disappeared fourteen years ago, leaving her family in a state of permanent grief.
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Never Saw Me Coming
by Vera Kurian
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Chloe Sevre is a freshman at Adams University who belongs to a secret clinical study involving diagnosed sociopaths.
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Yetiskin
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Gillian Flynn’s novella, known as The Grownup in English, follows a narrator who provides fraudulent spiritual readings and manual hand jobs to earn a living.
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8
Misery
by Stephen King
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Paul Sheldon, a successful author of historical romance, crashes his car on a remote Colorado road during a blizzard.
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9
Razorblade Tears
by S.A. Cosby
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee are two ex-convicts—one Black, one white—joined by the murder of their sons, Isiah and Derek.
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10
The Echo Wife
by Sarah Gailey
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Evelyn Caldwell is a renowned geneticist whose husband, Nathan, uses her stolen research to create Martine, a genetically engineered clone of Evelyn herself.
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Into the Darkest Corner
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
The narrative follows Catherine Bailey across two distinct timelines, contrasting her past as a vibrant socialite with her present life as a survivor struggling with severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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The Lies I Tell
by Julie Clark
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Meg Williams is a professional con artist who changes her identity and backstory to infiltrate the lives of wealthy social climbers.
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