1. The next book in the series is The Lunatic Cafe.
2. I would suggest Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last. It has a similar writing style with a complex character and an intensifying pace.
3. You may enjoy The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery, or possibly Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. These are historical novels set in Japan.
4. Well-Schooled in Murder is actually number 3 in the Thomas Lynley mystery series. You might want to start with the first one, A Great Deliverance. Or another series that is similar is the Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny. The first one is titled Still Life.
5. For zombie apocalypse fans I would suggest reading Black Out by Mira Grant, or The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach next. The Zombie Autopsies by Steven C. Schlozman may interest him as well.
I picked all of these books using Novelist Plus. Some of them I felt I could have done better and quicker using Fantastic Fiction, or Amazon. Both of these sites, along with Good Reads, are how I pick most things for myself and my family. I like the suggestions given by Amazon and the lists on Good Reads. I use Fantastic Fiction mainly for quickly finding the next book in a series or another book by the same author. I like using Novelist for questions involving similar appeal terms, however. It is much quicker and more accurate for those types of questions than browsing reviews on Amazon (which may or may not be written by a sane person).
It's interesting to see what books other people are recommending for the same scenarios. We both suggested Memoirs of a Geisha and Still Life, which makes me feel like I'm on the right track!
ReplyDeleteI'm very envious your library has novelist plus, I would even settle for regular novelist!
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