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Books like Mad Honey

12 books with a reading profile close to Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult. Balanced in tone; an easy read.

  1. 1 Where the Crawdads Sing

    Where the Crawdads Sing

    by Delia Owens

    narrative, mystery

    In late 1969, the body of Chase Andrews lies in the swampy mud of Barkley Cove, North Carolina.

  2. 2 Plain Truth

    Plain Truth

    by Jodi Picoult

    narrative, mystery

    In rural Pennsylvania, a Amish farm woman, Katie Fisher, is accused of killing her newborn baby, whose body is found in a barn.

  3. 3 Lonely Castle in the Mirror

    Lonely Castle in the Mirror

    by Mizuki Tsujimura

    narrative, mystery

    Kokoro, a thirteen-year-old in Tokyo, has stopped attending school after being bullied, and spends her days at home.

  4. 4 Marina

    Marina

    by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    narrative, mystery

    In the labyrinthine streets of Barcelona, a young boy named Oscar Drai is drawn into a mysterious world when he discovers a forbidden book.

  5. 5 The Thirteenth Tale

    The Thirteenth Tale

    by Diane Setterfield

    narrative, mystery

    Margaret Lea, a quiet antiquarian bookshop assistant, receives a summons to the decaying Angelfield estate to interview Vida Winter, a prolific novelist famous for her invented pasts.

  6. 6 Anxious People

    Anxious People

    by Fredrik Backman

    narrative, mystery

    A failed bank robber escapes into an open house apartment viewing, inadvertently taking a group of prospective buyers hostage.

  7. 7 Mary Jane

    Mary Jane

    by Jessica Anya Blau

    narrative, literary

    Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.

  8. 8 Modern Lovers

    Modern Lovers

    by Emma Straub

    narrative, literary

    Elizabeth and Andrew, and Zoe and Harry, are two couples who have been friends since their youth in a band, living in Brooklyn.

  9. 9 Elevation

    Elevation

    by Stephen King

    narrative, literary

    Scott Carey lives in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, and he has a puzzling medical problem: he is steadily losing weight, but he looks the same and weighs the same on the scale whether he is dressed or naked and c…

  10. 10 Miss Benson's Beetle

    Miss Benson's Beetle

    by Rachel Joyce

    narrative, literary

    In 1950s London, Margery Benson, a lonely domestic science teacher, abandons her stifling life to find a mythical golden beetle on the island of New Caledonia.

  11. 11 Olga Dies Dreaming

    Olga Dies Dreaming

    by Xóchitl González

    narrative, literary

    Set in 2017 New York City, the narrative follows Olga Acevedo, a high-end wedding planner for the billionaire class, and her brother Prieto, a popular congressman representing their native Brooklyn neighborhood.

  12. 12 Vanishing Acts

    Vanishing Acts

    by Jodi Picoult

    narrative, literary

    Delia Hopkins is a search-and-rescue worker in New Hampshire, raising her daughter with her fiance, Fitz.

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