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Books like Breaking Dawn

Loved Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from horror, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    It

    Stephen King · 1986 · Horror

    A group of friends face a shape-shifting evil in their home town, then again as adults; a doorstop of fear and friendship.

  2. 2

    The Shining

    Stephen King · 1977 · Horror

    A family caretakes an empty winter hotel that wants the father for itself; King's masterclass in dread.

  3. 3

    The Haunting of Hill House

    Shirley Jackson · 1959 · Horror

    Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.

  4. 4

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker · 1897 · Horror

    Letters and diaries trace a creeping invasion by an ancient predator; the novel that fixed the vampire in our imagination.

  5. 5

    From a Buick 8

    Stephen King · 2002 · Horror

    Una novela sobre una fascinación enfermiza y peligrosa. Una novela de verdadero terror. Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera para repostar. Conduce un Buick modelo 1954 pero en perfect

  6. 6

    The Power of Darkness

    Edith Nesbit · 2006 · Horror

    The book "Power of Darkness" is an edition of twenty dark, mysterious stories. Each has its significance, perhaps in love, often in human terror and solitary endurance. From the love a man bears his d

  7. 7

    Desperation

    Stephen King · 1996 · Horror

    Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China

  8. 8

    Gerald's Game

    Stephen King · 1992 · Horror

    Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic interlude. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when

  9. 9

    The Queen of the Damned

    Anne Rice · 1988 · Horror

    The third book in The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned, follows three parallel storylines. The rock star Vampire Lestat prepares for a concert in San Francisco, unaware that hundreds of vampire

  10. 10

    Misery

    Stephen King · 1987 · Horror

    A novelist is held captive by his 'number-one fan'; a claustrophobic, white-knuckle thriller.

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