Books like We Used to Live Here
12 books with a reading profile close to We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer. Practical and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Home Before Dark
by Riley Sager
Also practical and escapist · 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.
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The Burning Girls
by C.J. Tudor
Also practical and escapist · 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.
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3
What Lies in the Woods
Also practical and escapist · thriller, horror
Twenty-two years ago, Naomi Shaw and her two best friends survived a brutal stabbing in the woods.
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4
The Grownup
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.
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5
Thinner
Also practical and escapist · 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.
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6
Murder Road
Also practical and escapist · 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.
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7
Cujo
by Stephen King
Also practical and escapist · thriller, horror
In Castle Rock, Maine, a massive St.
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
Also practical and escapist · thriller, horror
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland wanders off a trail in the Maine-New Hampshire woods during a family hiking trip to escape her mother and brother’s constant bickering.
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9
There's Someone Inside Your House
Also practical and escapist · thriller, horror
Makani Young moves from Hawaii to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, hoping to hide a traumatic incident from her past.
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10
The Final Girl Support Group
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.
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11
Cold Fire
by Dean Koontz
Also 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.
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12
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Also practical and escapist · 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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