Books like Under the Dome

If you liked Under the Dome by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Cujo

    Stephen King · 1981

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller, small town.

    A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.

  2. The Institute

    Stephen King · 2019

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, science fiction, thriller.

    A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.

  3. Doctor Sleep

    Stephen King · 2013 · The Shining #2

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

    Grown Dan Torrance gets sober in New Hampshire and helps gifted Abra Stone face the True Knot.

  4. The Outsider

    Stephen King · 2018

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

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

  5. 11/22/63

    Stephen King · 2011

    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…

  6. 'Salem's Lot

    Stephen King · 1975

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

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

  7. The Stand

    Stephen King · 1978

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

    A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.

  8. Misery

    Stephen King · 1987

    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.

  9. The Shining

    Stephen King · 1977 · The Shining #1

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

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

  10. The War of the Worlds

    H.G. Wells · 1898

    Because shares tags: science fiction, survival.

    A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.

  11. The Fifth Season

    N.K. Jemisin · 2015 · The Broken Earth #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, survival.

    A hiding orogene hunts her missing daughter across a breaking continent while three lives turn out to be one.

  12. Odd Thomas

    Dean Koontz · 2003 · Odd Thomas #1

    Because shares tags: thriller, small town.

    A twenty year old fry cook who sees the dead tries to stop a mass shooting in his desert town.

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