Books like Penance
12 books with a reading profile close to Penance by Kanae Minato. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
narrative, mystery
In 1996, restless teenagers Frankie Budge and Zeke create a cryptic poster featuring a drawing of a person holding a severed head and a mysterious sentence about a "coal child." They secretly photocopy and distribute th…
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2
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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3
Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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4
I Have Some Questions for You
narrative, mystery
Bodie Kane, a successful film scholar and podcaster, returns to Granby School, the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four uncomfortable years.
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5
The Wonder
narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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6
Winter's Bone
narrative, mystery
Ree Dolly is a sixteen-year-old girl living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, taking care of her two younger brothers and her mentally ill mother.
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7
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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8
The Muse
narrative, mystery
In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.
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9
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin
narrative, mystery
In a small Mississippi town, two boys grew up on opposite sides of a divide: Larry Ott, a white loner whose father owned a garage, and Silas Jones, a Black boy who became friends with him.
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10
Ordinary Grace
narrative, mystery
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.
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11
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by A.S. King
narrative, mystery
Vera Dietz is a high school senior balancing a full-time job at a pizza parlor with the weight of a secret involving her former best friend, Charlie Kahn.
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12
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in a visa office in the afterlife with no idea how he died.
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