Books like Penpal
12 books with a reading profile close to Penpal by Dathan Auerbach. Practical and escapist; an easy read.
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The Drowning Kind
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jaxie Brandywine returns to her family estate in Vermont after her sister, Lexie, drowns in the property’s spring-fed pool.
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The Lighthouse Witches
by C.J. Cooke
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1998, single mother Liv arrives on the remote Scottish island of Lòn Mòr with her three daughters to commission a mural inside a decommissioned lighthouse.
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The Night Sister
Also practical and escapist · 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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The September House
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Margaret refuses to leave her Victorian estate, even though every September the walls bleed and the resident ghosts become aggressive.
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5
Strange Pictures
by Uketsu
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
An occult blogger receives a series of digital files containing nine seemingly mundane illustrations, ranging from children’s sketches to architectural floor plans.
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The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1920s England, Sarah Piper, a young woman struggling to make a living, takes a job with Alistair Gellis, a paranormal investigator, who needs an assistant to help him with a haunting in a farmhouse.
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The Ice Twins
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
A year after the accidental death of their daughter Lydia, Sarah and Angus Moorcroft move to a secluded Scottish island to rebuild their lives with Lydia’s identical twin, Kirstie.
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The Silent Companions
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge moves to the decaying country estate of the Bridge, the ancestral home of her late husband.
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9
Lock Every Door
by Riley Sager
Also practical and escapist · horror, entertainment
Jules Larsen, a young woman facing financial ruin, accepts a high-paying job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, a legendary and secretive Manhattan building.
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10
A House with Good Bones
Also practical and escapist · 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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Sour Candy
Also practical and escapist · horror, entertainment
In Kealan Patrick Burke's "Sour Candy," a young boy named Paul is given a mysterious piece of sour candy by a stranger, which grants him the ability to have his deepest, darkest wishes come true.
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