Books like Neverworld Wake
12 books with a reading profile close to Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by Edward Radcliffe arrives at Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Thames.
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2
The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is approached by a filmmaker documenting a high-society tragedy from 1924.
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3
The Girls in the Garden
by Lisa Jewell
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
When Clare moves her two daughters, Grace and Pip, into a communal garden square in London, she seeks a safe haven to recover from a domestic crisis.
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4
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Lydia Smith is a clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore in Denver, a sanctuary for "BookFrogs"—the shop’s eccentric, marginalized regulars.
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5
Big Lies in a Small Town
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
In 2018, Morgan Christopher is released from a North Carolina prison on the condition that she restores a massive, crumbling mural in the quiet town of Edenton.
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6
Ace of Spades
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo are the only Black students at Niveus Private Academy, and both have just been selected as senior prefects.
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7
A Nearly Normal Family
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Stella is an eighteen-year-old girl in Lund, Sweden, who is accused of the murder of a man in his thirties, whom she had been seeing.
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8
Sister
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Beatrice flies home to London from New York after her younger sister Tess goes missing.
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9
The Cloisters
by Katy Hays
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Ann Stilwell moves to New York for a summer internship at The Cloisters, a medieval museum wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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10
The Magnolia Palace
by Fiona Davis
narrative, mystery
Set within the Upper East Side’s historic Frick mansion, the narrative weaves together two timelines centered on the building’s evolution from private residence to public gallery.
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11
The Address
by Fiona Davis
narrative, mystery
The Address follows two women connected by the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan across different centuries.
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12
The Violin Conspiracy
narrative, mystery
Rayquan "Ray" McMillian is a gifted Black classical violinist who discovers that his family’s weathered fiddle is actually a priceless 1711 Stradivarius.
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