Books like The September House
12 books with a reading profile close to The September House by Carissa Orlando. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
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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2
Brother Odd
by Dean Koontz
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Odd Thomas seeks refuge from his supernatural burdens at St.
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3
Everything's Eventual
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
The book collects fourteen of Stephen King's stories, mostly from the 1990s and 2000s.
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4
Insomnia
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Set in Derry, Maine, the story follows Ralph Roberts, an elderly widower suffering from worsening sleeplessness.
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5
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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6
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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7
Penpal
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
An unnamed narrator reconstructs his childhood through a series of interconnected stories, beginning with a school project where he mailed a letter tied to a balloon.
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8
Hell Followed With Us
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Benji is a sixteen-year-old transgender boy fleeing the Angels, a fundamentalist cult that triggered a biological apocalypse to cleanse the earth.
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9
Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Chuck Tingle's novel takes place in a Christian conversion therapy camp called Camp Damascus, whose pastor claims to cure queer people.
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10
The Twisted Ones
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
After her hoarder step-grandmother dies, Melissa, known as Mouse, travels to rural North Carolina to clear out a house overflowing with refuse.
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11
The Cartographers
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Nell Young’s career as a cartographer ended after a public confrontation with her father, the legendary Dr.
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The Cloisters
by Katy Hays
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Ann Stilwell moves to New York for a summer internship at The Cloisters, a medieval museum wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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