Books like Let the Right One In
12 books with a reading profile close to Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Cabin at the End of the World
thriller, horror
Seven-year-old Wen and her fathers, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote New Hampshire cabin when four strangers armed with specialized tools surround the house.
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2
Full Dark, No Stars
by Stephen King
thriller, horror
Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four long stories centered on the capacity for violence within ordinary people.
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3
The Long Walk
thriller, horror
In a dystopian America, one hundred teenage boys compete in an annual endurance contest organized by a military regime.
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4
Different Seasons
by Stephen King
thriller, horror
This collection contains four novellas, each corresponding to a different season.
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5
The Devil All the Time
thriller, horror
Set in the rural backwoods of Ohio and West Virginia between World War II and the 1960s, the narrative follows Arvin Russell, a young man haunted by his father’s traumatizing religious sacrifices.
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6
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
thriller, horror
Kenji is a young man in Tokyo who offers nightlife tours to foreign visitors through the sex clubs and bars of Kabukicho.
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
horror, narrative
Set against the late nineteenth-century decline of the American bison, the narrative follows an Indigenous protagonist tasked with tracking a predatory figure who targets commercial hide hunters.
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9
A Certain Hunger
thriller, horror
Dorothy Daniels is a high-profile food critic in New York whose sophisticated palate demands absolute sensory fulfillment.
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10
Notes on an Execution
thriller, narrative
Ansel Packer sits on Texas death row with twelve hours left before his lethal injection.
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11
The Beach
by Alex Garland
thriller, narrative
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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12
The Other Black Girl
thriller, narrative
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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