Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos 1999
- What it is
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In search of a lost world or a treasure · you can't put it down
- Genre
- Thriller
- Feels
- Mysterious Adventurous Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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It grabs you with a mystery · it's hiding a secret
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You need to know how it ends · it'll scare you
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A mystery you want to solve · nothing is quite what it seems
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You need to know how it ends · the truth comes out bit by bit
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It grabs you with a mystery · properly scary
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You need to know how it ends · the truth comes out bit by bit
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It grabs you with a mystery · it's hiding a secret
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A mystery you want to solve · it'll scare you
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A mystery you want to solve · it stirs you up inside
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A mystery you want to solve · no clean hands here
The Legacy
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A mystery you want to solve · it tells it with no filter
Recursion
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A mystery you want to solve · nothing is quite what it seems
Dark Matter
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A mystery you want to solve · nothing is quite what it seems
The devotion of suspect X
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You need to know how it ends · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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Lost worlds and treasures and the plot drives it
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You can't put it down · in search of a lost world or a treasure
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In common with yours: lost worlds and treasures · a world to get lost in
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Only it grabs you with a mystery
The Blackhouse
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It grabs you with a mystery · it stays with you
4 books · Alike in just one
Only lost worlds and treasures
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Nautical Chart
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In common with yours: lost worlds and treasures · it messes with your head
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne 2007
One more chapter, then another, but in a classic
9 books · Alike in just one
Only the plot drives it
Timeline
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A reader shelved it with yours in Adventure novels that make you twelve again
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You'll finish it in two nights · fierce and defiant
First Blood
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One more chapter, then another · fierce and defiant
Die Drei Musketiere
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A reader shelved it with yours in Adventure novels that make you twelve again
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Thomas Harris 1988
It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
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You can't put it down · nobody is entirely good
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