Books like The Bone Houses
12 books with a reading profile close to The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Vespertine
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Artemisia is a young nun who serves a religious order that protects the living from the restless dead in a world where ghosts rise and linger.
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
Also practical and escapist · horror, entertainment
Cordelia lives a quiet, isolated life under the thumb of her mother, Evangeline, a woman who manipulates the world through subtle, sinister sorcery.
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3
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Five estranged friends gather at a derelict Heian-era mansion in Japan to celebrate a destination wedding.
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Servant of the Bones
by Anne Rice
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Azriel is a Hebrew servant who is made a djinn, a spirit bound to serve a master, and he narrates his long history from ancient Babylon to the present.
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5
Vampires of El Norte
by Isabel Cañas
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican-American War in the 1840s, the story follows Nena, a curandera and daughter of a ranchero, and Néstor, a vaquero driven by guilt after a childhood tragedy.
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Blood and Chocolate
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Sixteen-year-old Vivian Gandillon is a werewolf living in a secret community of shapeshifters in suburban Maryland.
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The Hollow Places
Also practical and escapist · horror, entertainment
Kara, recently divorced and living in her uncle’s museum of curiosities, discovers a hole in a drywall that leads into a concrete bunker and a landscape of endless islands amidst a dark river.
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Fairy Tale
by Stephen King
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Charlie Reade is a high school athlete who life takes a sharp turn after he saves his elderly neighbor, Howard Bowditch, from a medical emergency.
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A Dowry of Blood
by S.T. Gibson
Also practical and escapist · horror, entertainment
In this epistolary reimagining of the Dracula mythos, Constanta is rescued from the brink of death by a charismatic, ancient stranger.
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10
Later
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jamie Conklin just wants a normal childhood, but he possesses the ability to see and speak with the spirits of the recently deceased.
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Shadow of the Fox
by Julie Kagawa
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, fantasy
Yumeko is a half-kitsune, half-human girl raised in a hidden temple in a fantasy version of feudal Japan.
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