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12 books with a reading profile close to Summerwater by Sarah Moss. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Disappearing Earth

    Disappearing Earth

    by Julia Phillips

    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.

  2. 2 De Laatste Afspraak

    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.

  3. 3 The Wonder

    The Wonder

    by Emma Donoghue

    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.

  4. 4 The Glass Hotel

    The Glass Hotel

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    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.

  5. 5 I Have Some Questions for You

    I Have Some Questions for You

    by Rebecca Makkai

    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.

  6. 6 Deacon King Kong

    Deacon King Kong

    by James McBride

    narrative, mystery

    Set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969, the story begins when Sportcoat, an aging, hard-drinking church deacon, shoots a young drug dealer named Deems Clemens in broad daylight.

  7. 7 The Lie Tree

    The Lie Tree

    by Frances Hardinge

    narrative, mystery

    Faith Sunderly is a fourteen-year-old girl in Victorian England whose family moves to a small island after a scandal involving her father, Reverend Sunderly, a respected naturalist who is suspected of fraud.

  8. 8 Now Is Not the Time to Panic

    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…

  9. 9 Winter's Bone

    Winter's Bone

    by Daniel Woodrell

    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.

  10. 10 The Muse

    The Muse

    by Jessie Burton

    narrative, mystery

    In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.

  11. 11 Ordinary Grace

    Ordinary Grace

    by William Kent Krueger

    narrative, mystery

    In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.

  12. 12 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

    The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

    by Shehan Karunatilaka

    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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