Books like The Green Mile

If you liked The Green Mile by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Gunslinger

    Stephen King · 1982 · The Dark Tower #1

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: fantasy, horror, classics.

    Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.

  2. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · Sherlock Holmes #5

    Because shares tags: classics, mystery, horror.

    Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

  3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

    Because shares tags: classics, horror, mystery.

    A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.

  4. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

    Ransom Riggs · 2011 · Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, mystery, horror.

    Jacob Portman finds his grandfather dead in the woods, follows a cryptic letter to a ruined orphanage in Wales, and meets children living…

  5. The Outsider

    Stephen King · 2018

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, mystery.

    Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.

  6. 'Salem's Lot

    Stephen King · 1975

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, classics.

    A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.

  7. Pet Sematary

    Stephen King · 1983

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, classics.

    Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.

  8. The Shining

    Stephen King · 1977 · The Shining #1

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, classics.

    The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.

  9. The Raven Boys

    Maggie Stiefvater · 2012 · The Raven Cycle #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, mystery.

    Blue Sargent joins four Aglionby boys hunting a Welsh king on a Virginia ley line.

  10. The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco · 1980

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

    Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.

  11. The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

    Because shares tags: classics, fantasy.

    Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.

  12. The Horse and His Boy

    C. S. Lewis · 1954 · Chronicles of Narnia #5

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.

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