Books like Doctor Sleep
If you liked Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Shining
Because same series (The Shining #1); also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural, thriller.
The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.
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The Outsider
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural, thriller.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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Hidden Pictures
Because shares tags: horror, thriller, supernatural.
Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey.
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Under the Dome
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
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The Institute
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
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Cujo
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.
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11/22/63
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: thriller, horror.
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life…
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Pet Sematary
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
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Misery
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.
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Carrie
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Bullied Carrie White discovers telekinetic powers that turn a cruel prom prank into a night of fire.
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It
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.
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Odd Thomas
Because shares tags: thriller, supernatural.
A twenty year old fry cook who sees the dead tries to stop a mass shooting in his desert town.
