Find a (Sort of) Sequel to Your Favorite Book
Some follow-up suggestions for couldn't-put-it-down books you've already read.
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If you like Jonathan Franzen...
Follow Freedom, Jonathan Franzen's stunner about life as we know it, with Julia Glass's Three Junes, another great American novel. Or try A Small Hotel, Robert Olen Butler's shorter but no less encompassing tale of loss.
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If you like Kathryn Stockett...
Follow Kathryn Stockett's The Help, set in the 1960s South, with Ellen Feldman's The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar, about a high-born Indian lady and her maid.
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If you like Sara Gruen...
Follow Sara Gruen's big top blockbuster Water for Elephants, with John Irving's The World According to Garp, for its circus-like family. Or try Siobahn Fallon's You Know When the Men Are Gone, about life on an army base.
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If you like Stieg Larsson...
Follow Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell, who many say is the heir to the Swedish-thriller-writer throne, or Jo Nesbo's The Snowman, a gripping tale of Norwegian origin.
Published 09/06/2011