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12 books with a reading profile close to White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson. Escapist; an easy read.

1

The September House

by Carissa Orlando

Also escapist · horror, entertainment

Margaret refuses to leave her Victorian estate, even though every September the walls bleed and the resident ghosts become aggressive.
2

The Silent Companions

by Laura Purcell

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.
3

Brother Odd

by Dean Koontz

Also escapist · horror, entertainment

Odd Thomas seeks refuge from his supernatural burdens at St.
4

The Drowning Kind

by Jennifer McMahon

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.
5

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.
6

Insomnia

by Stephen King

Also escapist · horror, entertainment

Set in Derry, Maine, the story follows Ralph Roberts, an elderly widower suffering from worsening sleeplessness.
7

Hell Followed With Us

by Andrew Joseph White

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.
8

The Fisherman

by John Langan

Also escapist · horror, entertainment

Widowers Abe and Dan attempt to manage their grief through marathon fishing trips in upstate New York.
9

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.
10

The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1

by Mokumokuren

Also escapist · horror, entertainment

Yoshiki and Hikaru are best friends in a small, isolated village in rural Japan.
11

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.
12

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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