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Books like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

12 books with a reading profile close to The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

The Final Girl Support Group

by Grady Hendrix

Also escapist · thriller, horror

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life survivor of a seasonal massacre, one of several women who outlived mass killers in the 1980s and 90s.
2

Home Before Dark

by Riley Sager

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Maggie Holt grew up in the shadow of House of Horrors, a non-fiction book written by her father about their twenty days living in Baneberry Hall.
3

We Used to Live Here

by Marcus Kliewer

Also practical and escapist · thriller, horror

Charlie and Eve are flipping a dilapidated house when a stranger knocks on the door, claiming he grew up in the residence and asking to show his family inside.
4

Thinner

by Richard Bachman

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Billy Halleck, an overweight lawyer, accidentally kills a Romani woman with his car but escapes legal consequences through his connections with a local judge and a police chief.
5

Cujo

by Stephen King

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

In Castle Rock, Maine, a massive St.
6

Murder Road

by Simone St. James

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

In 1995, newlyweds July and April are driving to a remote honeymoon cabin when they encounter a bleeding woman on a deserted Michigan road.
7

The Burning Girls

by C.J. Tudor

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Reverend Jack Brooks moves to the rural village of Chapel Croft with teenage daughter Flo, hoping for a fresh start after a tragedy in their previous parish.
8

What Lies in the Woods

by Kate Alice Marshall

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Twenty-two years ago, Naomi Shaw and her two best friends survived a brutal stabbing in the woods.
9

There's Someone Inside Your House

by Stephanie Perkins

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

Makani Young moves from Hawaii to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, hoping to hide a traumatic incident from her past.
10

Cold Fire

by Dean Koontz

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, horror

Jim Ironheart lives under the command of a persistent internal voice that compels him to travel across the country to prevent specific, imminent tragedies.
11

The Grownup

by Gillian Flynn

Also practical and escapist · thriller, horror

A cynical young woman earns a living by faking psychic auras and performing hand jobs in the back of a storefront spiritual shop.
12

The Ruins

by Scott Smith

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, horror

In the sweltering heat of the Yucatan Peninsula, four American tourists—Jeff, Amy, Eric, and Stacy—join a Greek traveler and a German man named Mathias to locate a missing brother at a remote archaeological dig site.

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