Books like Winter's Bone
12 books with a reading profile close to Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin
narrative, mystery
In a small Mississippi town, two boys grew up on opposite sides of a divide: Larry Ott, a white loner whose father owned a garage, and Silas Jones, a Black boy who became friends with him.
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2
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
narrative, mystery
Set in the smog-laden streets of Victorian London, the story follows Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among a family of petty thieves and fences.
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3
Motherless Brooklyn
narrative, mystery
Lionel Essrog has Tourette's syndrome, which makes him blurt, count and tap compulsively.
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4
The Lie Tree
narrative, mystery
Faith Sunderly is a fourteen-year-old girl in Victorian England whose family moves to a small island after a scandal involving her father, Reverend Sunderly, a respected naturalist who is suspected of fraud.
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5
I Have Some Questions for You
narrative, mystery
Bodie Kane, a successful film scholar and podcaster, returns to Granby School, the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four uncomfortable years.
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6
The Book of Speculation
by Erika Swyler
narrative, mystery
Simon Watson, a young librarian in a small New York town, receives a package from an antiquarian bookseller: a fragile, water-damaged ledger from the 1700s, which appears to be a record kept by a traveling circus.
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7
Ordinary Grace
narrative, mystery
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.
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8
The Muse
narrative, mystery
In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.
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9
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
narrative, mystery
In 1996, restless teenagers Frankie Budge and Zeke create a cryptic poster featuring a drawing of a person holding a severed head and a mysterious sentence about a "coal child." They secretly photocopy and distribute th…
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10
Happiness Falls
by Angie Kim
narrative, mystery
When Mia Parkson’s father disappears during a morning hike in Virginia, the only witness is her younger brother, Eugene, who has autism and a rare genetic condition called Angelman syndrome.
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11
The Wonder
narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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12
The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
narrative, mystery
Cameron Bright is found dead from heat exhaustion at the Stockman’s Grave, a remote landmark in the brutal Australian outback.
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