Books like This Is Where It Ends
12 books with a reading profile close to This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
Whisper Network
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Ames Garrett is positioned to become the next CEO of Truviv, a high-growth athletics company in Dallas.
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2
American Dirt
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Lydia Quixano Pérez, a bookstore owner in Acapulco, survives a mass shooting that kills sixteen members of her family, including her journalist husband.
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3
Grown
thriller, narrative
Enchanted Jones is a teenager with aspirations of becoming a professional singer.
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4
The Reckoning
by John Grisham
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Pete Banning, a decorated war hero and prominent farmer in Clanton, Mississippi, walks into his pastor’s office in 1946 and shoots him dead.
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5
Luckiest Girl Alive
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Ani FaNelli is a successful editor at a prestigious women's magazine who has meticulously engineered a glamorous life in New York City.
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Big Little Lies
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
In the coastal town of Pirriwee, three mothers find their lives entangled through their children’s kindergarten class.
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7
Razorblade Tears
by S.A. Cosby
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee are two ex-convicts—one Black, one white—joined by the murder of their sons, Isiah and Derek.
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Bright Young Women
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
In 1978, a sorority president named Pamela Schumacher survives a brutal assault on her Florida State University campus house, witnessing a brief glimpse of the killer.
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9
The Grace Year
by Kim Liggett
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
In Garner County, sixteen-year-old girls are banished to the wilderness for their grace year, a period where they must release their supposed magic before entering marriage or labor.
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10
Yellowface
by R.F. Kuang
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
When June Hayward witnesses the accidental death of her more successful rival, Athena Liu, she steals Athena’s unfinished manuscript about Chinese laborers in World War I.
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11
Allegedly
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Mary Addison was convicted of killing a white infant when she was only nine years old.
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12
The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
thriller, narrative
In 1940, three women from vastly different social circles converge at Bletchley Park to join the secret British codebreaking operation.
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