Books like Meddling Kids
12 books with a reading profile close to Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
A House with Good Bones
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Sam Montgomery, an archaeoentomologist, returns to her childhood home in North Carolina to find her mother, Edith, behaving with uncharacteristic skittishness.
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2
In the Tall Grass
by Stephen King
Also practical and outward-looking · horror, entertainment
Siblings Cal and Becky DeMuth are driving across Kansas when they stop beside a vast field of tall grass after hearing a young boy’s cries for help.
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3
Creepshow
by Stephen King
Also practical and outward-looking · horror, entertainment
Creepshow is a comic book collection of five horror stories written by Stephen King and illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, adapted from the 1982 film.
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4
Horrorstör
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set in the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio, the story follows Amy, a retail employee struggling with debt.
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The Troop
by Nick Cutter
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
On Falstaff Island, Scoutmaster Tim Higgs leads five adolescent boys—Max, Newton, Ephraim, Shelley, and Kent—on a routine wilderness survival excursion.
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Ankle Snatcher
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Marcus grows up believing his father is a murderer who killed his mother, but his father insists a supernatural monster dragged her under the bed.
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The Night Sister
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
The narrative follows Piper and Margot, two sisters who return to their family’s decaying Vermont motel, the Tower, after their childhood friend Amy commits a gruesome triple murder-suicide.
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Spider's Web
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, mystery
Clarissa Hailsham-Brown, the imaginative wife of a diplomat, often invents dramatic stories to liven up her quiet life in the English countryside.
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9
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Symbologist Robert Langdon investigates a murder at the Louvre Museum, where a curator’s body is surrounded by complex riddles and Fibonacci sequences.
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10
THE WIDOW
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Simon Latch practices law in a quiet Virginia town until he is formally charged with a homicide he did not commit.
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11
JUDGE STONE
by Viola Davis and James Patterson
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Judge Mary Stone presides over a rural courtroom in Union Springs, Alabama, where she manages a legal case tangled in local history and conflicting ethical loyalties.
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12
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Bobby Jones, the son of a vicar, discovers a dying man at the bottom of a cliff while playing golf in Wales.
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