Book List: Recent Reads and Read-alikes

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Recent Reads and Read-alikes:

I love it when I’m engrossed in a fantastic book or short story and it evokes shades of another I’ve read previously. Making these connections feels like kismet, brings me joy, and deepens my reading experience. Here are some books/stories I enjoyed that brought to mind others I also enjoyed, and why!

On the horror fiction front:

The Agony of Her by Cassandra L. Thompson (review here) → Ghost Mother by Kelly Dwyer (review here)

Immersive Gothic tales where marital strife, motherhood, female rage, and toxic masculinity take center stage, along with haunted houses and paranormal elements

On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield (review here) → Blackwater by Michael McDowell

Phenomenal Southern Gothics where food and daily routine act as soothing agents amid unimaginable horrors

Night Shift by Stephen King (review here)

• “The Mangler” → The Amulet by Michael McDowel (review here)

Gory, gruesome, macabre, and captivating accounts of possessed objects wreaking havoc with key industrial setting scenes

• “The Boogeyman” → Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (review here)

Malevolent, bone-chilling, terrifying, and appalling chronicles of closet-dwelling monsters and the humans they target

On the literary fiction front:

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash → The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

Poignant, offbeat stories surrounding heavy topics dealt with in humorous, lighthearted manners

Good People by Patmeena Sabit (review here) → Good Girl by Aria Aber

Complex and riveting novels that examine Afghan cultural conventions and communities via refugee families and their public/private struggles

Have any read-alikes popped into your head recently?

🖤Amanda

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