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Books like Watchmen

If you liked Watchmen by Alan Moore, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco · 1980

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

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

  2. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · Sherlock Holmes #5

    Because shares tags: classics, mystery.

    Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

  3. The Green Mile

    Stephen King · 1996

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

    Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.

  4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Agatha Christie · 1920 · Hercule Poirot #1

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

    Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.

  5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Philip K. Dick · 1968

    Because shares tags: dystopia, classics.

    Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.

  6. A Study in Scarlet

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887 · Sherlock Holmes #1

    Because shares tags: classics, mystery.

    Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.

  7. The Time Machine

    H.G. Wells · 1895

    Because shares tags: classics, dystopia.

    Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

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

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

    Because shares tags: classics, mystery.

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

  9. Rebecca

    Daphne du Maurier · 1938

    Because shares tags: classics, mystery.

    A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.

  10. Murder on the Orient Express

    Agatha Christie · 1934 · Hercule Poirot #10

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

    Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.

  11. A Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess · 1962

    Because shares tags: classics, dystopia.

    Teenage Alex leads his droogs on ultraviolent nights until the state rewrites him with the Ludovico Technique.

  12. The Maze Runner

    James Dashner · 2009 · The Maze Runner #1

    Because shares tags: dystopia, mystery.

    Maze Runner retold: Thomas wakes in Glade, walls move, Grievers sting, Teresa triggers end.

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