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Mystery, cozy                                    
If you like M. C. Beaton,
you might like:
Lillian Jackson Braun
Catherine Aird
Agatha Christie
Elly Griffiths
Rhys Bowen
A. C. Bradley
Simon Brett
Richard Osman

Mystery, forensic
If you like Patricia Cornwell, you might like:
Tess Gerritsen
Kathy Reichs
Catherine Coulter
Lisa Gardner
Jonathan Kellerman
Michael Connelly
Anne Perry
Robert Crais
Denis Lehane
Laura Lippman

Mystery, one detective
If you like Louise Penny, you might like:
P. D. James
Charles Todd
Peter Robinson
Val McDermid
Charles Finch
Sue Grafton
Robert Parker

Mystery, Scandinavian Noir,
If you like Stieg Larsson, you might like:
Helene Tursten
Joe Nesbø
Henning Mankell
Karin Fossum
Lars Kepler
Camilla Lackberg
Arnoldur Indridason

General Fiction
If you like Kristin Hannah, you might like:
Jennifer Chiaverini
Jodi Picoult
Sue Miller
Anita Shreve
Ann Hood
Ann Patchett
Fredrik Backman

If you like thrillers like John Grisham, you may like:
David Baldacci
James E. Burke
John Sandford
Stuart Woods
James Grippando
James Patterson
Clive Cussler
Harlen Coben

If you like Character-Driven  Fiction, like Elizabeth Strout
Kate Atkinson
Isabel Allende
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Marra
Louise Erdrich
Barbara Kingsolver
Anne Tyler
Paulette Jiles
Rachel Cusk
Michael Ondaatje
Richard Russo
Tessa Hadley

If you like romance, you might like
Dorothea Benton Frank
Jennifer Ryan
Nicholas Sparks
Maeve Binchy
Joanna Trollope

If you like western fiction,
you might like:
C. J. Box
Tony Hillerman
Anne Hillerman
Larry McMurtry

If you like contemporary issues fictionalized, you might like:
James McBride
Colson Whitehead
John Edgar Wideman
Jennifer Egan

If you like local or YPL authors:
Elin Hilderbrand
Nany Thayer
Jeannette deBeauvoir
Anne Ierardi
Richard Gifford
Marge Piercy
Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Theroux
Maddie Day
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Robert Finch
Henry Beston
Lisa Franco
Claire Messud
Mary Higgins Clark

If you like espionage like John LeCarré, you might like
Daniel Silva
Nelson DeMille
Alan Furst
Martin Cruz Smith
Vince Flynn

If you like historical fiction like Marie Benedict, you might like:
Geraldine Brooks
Sally Gunning
Melanie Benjamin
Paula McLain
Pam Jenoff
Jacqueline Winspear
Christina Baker Kline
Kate Quinn
Fiona Davis
Jennifer Ryan
Irene Nemirovsky

Authors by Genre

Mystery:
Beaton, M.C.
Bowen, Rhys
Box, C.J.
Burke, James Lee
Christie, Agatha
Cornwell, Patricia
Gardner, Lisa   
Mayor, Archer
Parker, Robert B.
Penny, Louise
Perry, Anne
Todd, Charles

Historical Fiction:
Benedict, Marie
Benjamin, Melanie
Davis, Fiona
Follett, Ken
Hannah, Kristin
Kline, Christina Baker
Ruthurford, Edward
Ryan, Jennifer

Fiction
Allende, Isabel
Bachman, Fredrik
Binchy, Maeve
Bohjalian, Chris
Doerr, Anthyony
Erdich, Louise
Kingsolver, Barbara
Lehane, Dennis
McBride, James
Moriarty, Liane
Scottoline, Lisa
Tyler, Anne

Thrillers/Espionage
Baldacci, David
Berry, Steve
Brown, Dan
Clancy, Tom
Coben, Harlen
Connelly, Michael
Coulter, Catherine
Cussler, Clive
DeMille, Nelson
Flynn, Vince
Greaney, Mark
Grisham, John
Grippando, James
LeCarre, John
Patterson, James
Silva, Daniel

Beach Read
Colgan, Jenny
Frank, Dorothea Benton
Hilderbrand, Elin
Monroe, Mary Alice
Thayer, Nancy

Western
Jiles, Paulette
Kelton, Elmer
L’Amour, Louis
McMurtry, Larry

Cape Cod/New England Authors
deBeauvoir, Jeannette
Gunning, Sally
Hilderbrand, Elin
Philbrick, Nathaniel
Quinn,  Spencer
Thayer, Nancy

Fantasy
Gabaldon, Diana
Hoffman, Alice
Tolkien, J.R.R.
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