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Whether you're looking for romance, horror, adventure, or mystery, this list has books similar to some of our favorite movies.
If you liked The Mummy (1999)....
Empire of the Shadows
Jacquelyn Benson
Like The Mummy, this book features a swoon-worthy adversaries-to-lovers romance, villains out to get them, and ancient artifacts that may have magical origins.
When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication. A ruthless villain wants it, and Ellie is all that stands in his way. To race him to the ruins—and avoid being violently disposed of—she needs the help of maverick surveyor Adam Bates, a snake-wrangling rogue who can’t seem to keep his dratted shirt on. But there’s more than Ellie’s scholarly reputation (and life) on the line. Her enemies aren’t just looters. They’re after an arcane secret rumored to lie in the heart of the ruins, a mythical artifact with a power that could shake the world.
If you liked Your Name (2016)...
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Brandon Sanderson
Like Your Name, this book features two strangers living completely different lives, suddenly swapping bodies back and forth. They must work together to solve the mystery of why this is happening and find a way to stop it.
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other’s communities from certain disaster?
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones
Like Sinners, this is a historical vampire story. Sinners is set in 1932 in the Mississippi River Delta, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter takes place in 1912 in Montana. Both deal with race, the power of memories, and the history they hold.
This is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet man named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall in 2012. What is unveiled is a slow massacre, a nearly forgotten chain of events that goes back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow, told in the transcribed interviews with Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar and unnaturally long life over a series of confessional visits.
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Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
Lex Croucher
Like A Knight's Tale, this book takes place in a re-imagined medieval period with someone pretending to be a highborn Knight, arranged marriages, and forbidden romance.
It’s been hundreds of years since King Arthur’s reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They’re forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials. Within 24 hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy, and Arthur has gone digging for Gwen's childhood diary and found confessions about her crush on the kingdom's only lady knight, Bridget Leclair. Realizing they might make better allies than enemies, Gwen and Art make a reluctant pact to cover for each other as things heat up at the annual royal tournament.
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Bunny
Mona Awad
Like Heathers, this book begins with an outsider getting invited into the group of popular mean girls. What starts as curiosity and a way out of obscurity soon turns deadly.
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one. Everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.
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About the Author
Jacqueline is a Circulation Clerk in the Adult Library who started in 2024. She enjoys reading epic fantasy books and cozy rom-coms; and believes the best way to read is with the physical book and the audiobook together. When she’s not reading she also loves going to the movies.
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