Books like Joker
12 books with a reading profile close to Joker by Brian Azzarello. Escapist; an easy read.
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You Will Know Me
by Megan Abbott
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Katie and Eric Knox have given everything for their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy with a chance at the Olympics.
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Cross Her Heart
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Lisa is a single mother whose entire life centers on her teenage daughter, Ava.
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4
The Beach
by Alex Garland
thriller, literary
Alex Garland’s novel follows Richard, a young British backpacker in Bangkok who acquires a hand-drawn map promising a hidden coastal paradise.
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5
Reconstructing Amelia
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Kate Baron is a litigator and single mother whose life shatters when her fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, falls to her death from the roof of her Brooklyn private school.
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6
The Other Black Girl
thriller, literary
Nella Rogers is an editorial assistant and the only Black employee at Wagner Books, a prestigious but white-dominated publishing house in New York City.
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He Said/She Said
by Erin Kelly
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Laura and Kit are a couple who spend their holidays chasing solar eclipses.
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8
Mister Magic
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
In "Mister Magic," Eliza struggles with being the only non-magical person in a family of powerful witches.
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9
The Bandit Queens
entertainment, literary
In a rural Indian village, Gehna remains an outcast because her neighbors believe she murdered her husband, Ramesh, who actually vanished years ago.
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10
The Dark Half
by Stephen King
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Thad Beaumont is a successful novelist who maintains a secret career writing violent crime fiction under the pseudonym George Stark.
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Snap
Also escapist · thriller, literary
Eleven-year-old Jack Bright is left in a broken-down car on a dark motorway to watch over his two younger sisters while his pregnant mother, Nicola, walks for help.
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12
Believe Me
by J.P. Delaney
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Claire Wright is a British actress in New York, struggling to pay her law school bills.
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