18 books like The Lovely Bones

What to read after The Lovely Bones — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Gone Girl Gillian Flynn · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Gone Girl is a 2012 crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel became popular and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether or not Nick Dunne is involved in the disappearance of his wife Amy. ---------- Also contained in: Les apparences suvi de la novella Nous… Shares: Crimes against

Carolina Moon Nora Roberts · 2000 · ★ 4.1 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Tory Bodeen grew up in South Carolina, in a small run-down house, where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt--and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child. After young Hope's brutal murder, unsolved to this… Shares: Bereavement, Murder victims' families, Murder

Doomed Chuck Palahniuk · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"-- Shares: Dead, Ghost Stories

Cell Stephen King · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 477p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Een 53-jarige vrouw zit in een midlife-crisis en blikt terug op de tijd dat ze als 19-jarige trouwde met een weduwnaar met drie dochters, een groot huis en een bedrijf. Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Ficción

The Power Naomi Alderman · 1998 · ★ 3.8 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate ix, 340 pages : 20 cm Shares: Muchachas adolescentes, Teenage Girls

The Woods Harlan Coben · 1849 · ★ 4.1 · 433p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again.For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known,… Shares: Murder victims' families, Dead

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith · 1943 · ★ 4.3 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Challenging The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has… Shares: Muchachas adolescentes, Teenage Girls

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 662p · ≈ 22h · Moderate More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal... Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Ficción

Преступление и наказание Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1866 · ★ 4.3 · 562p · ≈ 18h · Challenging From wikipedia: Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: \[prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə\]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.1 It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's… Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Murder

Absolute Friends John le Carré · 2003 · ★ 3.7 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in the shining-new Republic of Pakistan, is friends with Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass world of Cold War espionage and in today's world of terror. Originally published. Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

No Time for Goodbye Linwood Barclay · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 474p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge wakes up one morning to find her entire family gone. Twenty-five years later, their unexplained disappearance still haunts her. She agrees to appear on the reenactment show Deadline, hoping the TV exposure might provide her with some answers, although her husband, English teacher Terry Archer, is considerably more skeptical. Indeed, not long after the show airs,… Shares: Familias, Ficción

Tell No One Harlan Coben · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered. For the next eight years Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon, he receives an anonymous e-mail telling him to log on to a certain web-site at a certain time, using a code that only he and his wife knew. The screen opens… Shares: Murder victims' families, Murder

Desperation Stephen King · 1996 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China Pit have accidentally broken into another dimension and released a horrific creature known as Tak, who takes human form by hijacking some of the town's residents. The forces of good orchestrate a… Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

Memory Man David Baldacci · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Amos Decker's life changed forever-- twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect -- he can never forget… Shares: Murder victims' families, Murder

Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her legSince she left town eight years… Shares: Crimes against, Ficción, Murder

The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain · 1934 · ★ 3.6 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Frank Chambers, un trotamundos sin empleo, narra en primera persona la atracción que siente por Cora Papadakis, la esposa de un emigrante de origen griego propietario de una taberna en California, y cómo se vuelven amantes unidos por el ardor y la ambición. Pero no será tan fácil librarse del viejo marido. Y habrá que contar, además, con el inescrutable destino: ese cartero que siempre llama dos… Shares: Novela psicológica, Ficción

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman · 2008 · ★ 4.4 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the… Shares: Dead, Ghost Stories

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