Books like When No One Is Watching
12 books with a reading profile close to When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
Blacktop Wasteland
by S.A. Cosby
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a mechanic in rural Virginia struggling to keep his family business afloat while facing mounting household debts.
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2
Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
thriller, narrative
Will Chen, a senior at Harvard, is recruited by a shadow corporation to spearhead a heist reclaiming five looted zodiac fountainheads from European museums.
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3
White Ivy
by Susie Yang
thriller, narrative
Ivy Lin grew up in Chinese immigrant poverty in suburban America, raised by a mother who steals and a grandmother who pushes her to succeed.
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4
The Beach
by Alex Garland
thriller, narrative
Alex Garland’s novel follows Richard, a young British backpacker in Bangkok who acquires a hand-drawn map promising a hidden coastal paradise.
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5
The River
by Peter Heller
thriller, narrative
College friends Wynn and Jack embark on a canoe expedition down the Maskwa River in northern Canada, seeking a wilderness escape before returning to society.
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6
The Other Black Girl
thriller, narrative
Nella Rogers is an editorial assistant and the only Black employee at Wagner Books, a prestigious but white-dominated publishing house in New York City.
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7
The Female of the Species
thriller, narrative
Alex Craft is a high school student who functions as a vigilante in her small town, three years after the rape and murder of her older sister.
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8
Sadie
thriller, narrative
Nineteen-year-old Sadie Hunter disappears from her small town following the brutal murder of her younger sister, Mattie.
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9
A Ladder to the Sky
by John Boyne
thriller, narrative
Maurice Swift is a young waiter with immense literary ambition but zero original ideas.
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10
Notes on an Execution
thriller, narrative
Ansel Packer sits on Texas death row with twelve hours left before his lethal injection.
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11
A Burning
thriller, narrative
Set in contemporary Kolkata, the story begins when Jivan, a young Muslim woman living in the slums, posts a comment on Facebook questioning the government’s response to a deadly terrorist attack on a train.
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12
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
thriller, narrative
In 1859, Patrick Sumner, a disgraced former army surgeon from the Indian Mutiny, signs on as medic aboard the whaling ship Volunteer, bound for the Arctic.
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