18 books like Doctor Sleep

What to read after Doctor Sleep — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

In Too Deep Jayne Ann Krentz · 1960 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The author introduces a brand new story arc that begins in a secluded coastal town in northern California. Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It is a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town attracts misfits and drifters like moths to a flame. Now someone else has… Shares: Psychics, Psychic ability, Paranormal

La casa verde Mario Vargas Llosa · 1966 · ★ 4.0 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate La novela que supuso la consagración definitiva de Mario Vargas Llosa como uno de los más grandes escritores de la literatura contemporánea en español«La casa verde es maravillosa».Julio CortázarLa historia que narra La casa verde transcurre en dos lugares muy alejados entre sí: Piura, en el desierto del litoral peruano, y Santa María de Nieva, una factoría y misión religiosa perdida en el… Shares: Bien y mal, Novela, Good and evil

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil, Horror

Hearts in Atlantis Stephen King · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 688p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are about the Baby Boomer Generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening… Shares: Psychics, Horror, Thriller

Death Unmasked · 2015 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A Houston homicide detective investigates his, and his wife's murder - in his next - lifetime. Shares: Psychic ability, Paranormal, Thriller

Wicked Gregory Maguire · 1995 · ★ 3.5 · 494p · ≈ 16h · Moderate When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about… Shares: Occult fiction, Novela, Good and evil

The September House Carissa Orlando · 2023 · ★ 3.9 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would… Shares: Paranormal, Horror, Thriller

The Hacienda Isabel Cañas · 2022 · ★ 3.9 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding… Shares: Occult fiction, Paranormal, Horror, Thriller

White Lies Jayne Ann Krentz · 1999 · ★ 4.1 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Relationships are challenging enough for most single over-thirty women. For level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster, they're a minefield. The elite few who know her secret call her a human lie detector, and any falsehood, no matter how subtle or well hidden, sets her blood racing. Over the years, Clare has come to accept that someone with her extraordinary talents is unlikely to find a suitable… Shares: Psychics, Psychic ability

Strange Weather Joe Hill · 2017 · ★ 3.9 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights,… Shares: Good and evil, Paranormal

The Mystery Women Jayne Ann Krentz · 2013 · ★ 3.0 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy only to find herself hunted by a mad scientist who would resurrect a dead lover. Shares: Psychic ability, Novela, Paranormal

Dark Slayer Christine Feehan · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate A rumor has persisted in the vampire world of a dark slayer — a woman — who travels with a wolf pack and who destroys any vampire who crosses her path. Mysterious, elusive and seemingly impossible to kill, she is the one hunter who strikes terror into the hearts of the undead. She is Ivory Malinov. Her only brethren, the wolves. Long ago betrayed by her people, abandoned by her family, and cast… Shares: Psychics, Occult fiction

The Malefactor Edward Phillips Oppenheim · 1906 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Tall and burly, with features and skin hardened by exposure to the sun and winds of many climates, he looked like a man ready to face all hardships, equal to any emergency. Already one seemed to see the clothes and habits of civilization falling away from him, the former to be replaced by the stern, unlovely outfit of the war correspondent who plays the game. They crowded round him in the club… Shares: Good and evil, Thriller

Carrion comfort Dan Simmons · 1989 · ★ 3.9 · 696p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Shares: Psychic ability, Horror

Ghost story Peter Straub · 1979 · ★ 3.9 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule. Shares: Paranormal, Horror

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov · 1777 · ★ 3.9 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores.… Shares: Middle-aged men, Novela

NOS4A2 Joe Hill · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 702p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Shares: Psychic ability, Good and evil, Thriller

Die unendliche Geschichte Michael Ende · 1979 · ★ 4.2 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Ein geheimnisvolles Buch schlägt Bastian in seinen Bann: Die unendliche Geschichte. Begeistert nimmt er teil an den wilden Abenteuern ihres Helden Atréju und an dessen gefährlichen Auftrag: Das Traumreich Phantásien und seine Herrscherin, die Kindliche Kaiserin, zu retten. Mit der Zeit jedoch spürt Bastian, dass er mehr als nur ein unbeteiligter Zuschauer ist. Bis er sich unversehens selbst in… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil

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