Read-Alikes
Read-alikes are suggestions for readers who enjoy the works of a particular author and would like to have recommendations of other authors that write in a similar style or genre. Remember that individual judgments of writing styles will differ among readers and that these suggestions are selective.
Click on an author's name to view a suggestion of authors:
If you like David Baldacci, then try
William Bernhardt
Stephen J. Cannell
Linda Fairstein
Vince Flynn
James Grippando
John Grisham
Brad Meltzer
Kyle Mills
Robert Tanenbaum
Stuart Woods (Will Lee Series)
If you like Sandra Brown, then try
If you like Lee Child, then try
James Lee Burke
Harlen Coben
Michael Connelly
Robert Crais
Peter T. Deutermann
Barry Eisler
Stephen Hunter
George Pelecanos
If you like Tom Clancy, then try
If you like Mary Higgins Clark, then try
If you like Harlan Coben, then try
Edna Buchanan
Stephen J. Cannell
Lee Child
Robert Crais
Lisa Gardner
Greg Iles
Andrew Klavan
Rick Riordan
Don Winslow
Stuart Woods
If you like Michael Connelly, then try
James Lee Burke
Lee Child
James Ellroy
J. A. Jance
Faye Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson (Boldt & Matthews Series)
John Sandford
Joseph Wambaugh
If you like Robin Cook, then try
Patricia Cornwell
Michael Crichton
Tess Gerritsen
Chuck Hogan
John J. Nance
Michael Palmer
Kathy Reichs
F. Paul Wilson
If you like Patricia Cornwell, then try
If you like Catherine Coulter, then try
Catherine Anderson
Tami Hoag
Kay Hooper
Elizabeth Lowell
Debbie Macomber
Judith McNaught
Luanne Rice
Karen Robards
Nora Roberts
Danielle Steel
If you like Barbara Delinsky, then try
Jude Deveraux
Anita Diamant
Patricia Gaffney
Julie Garwood
Kristin Hannah
Fern Michaels
Belva Plain
Luanne Rice
LaVyrle Spencer
Danielle Steel
If you like Janet Evanovich, then try
Nancy Bartholomew
Anthony Bruno
Jan Burke
Jennifer Crusie
G. M. Ford
Carl Hiaasen
Susan Isaacs
Sarah Shankman
Sarah Strohmeyer
If you like Julie Garwood, then try
Victoria Alexander
Catherine Coulter
Jude Deveraux
Johanna Lindsey
Elizabeth Lowell
Judith McNaught
Rebecca Paisley
Amanda Quick
Kathleen Woodiwiss
If you like Tess Gerritsen, then try
Peter Clement
Robin Cook
Michael Crichton
Patricia Cornwell
Thomas Harris
Iris Johansen
Robert Preston
Kathy Reichs
Karin Slaughter
If you like Sue Grafton, then try
If you like John Grisham, then try
If you like Linda Howard, then try
Elizabeth Adler
Suzanne Brockmann
Sandra Brown
Catherine Coulter
Julie Garwood
Kay Hooper
Iris Johansen
Elizabeth Lowell
Nora Roberts
If you like Greg Iles, then try
Dan Brown
Lee Child
Mary Higgins Clark
James Grippando
John Grisham
William Lashner
David Lindsey
James Patterson
Karin Slaughter
Mike Stewart
If you like Iris Johansen, then try
Sandra Brown
Catherine Coulter
Joy Fielding
Kay Hooper
Tami Hoag
Linda Howard
Barbara Michaels
Karen Robards
Mary Stewart
Phyllis Whitney
If you like Jan Karon, then try
Carrie Brown
Richard Paul Evans
Joseph Girzone
Elizabeth Goudge
Philip Gulley
Joan Medlicott
Rosamunde Pilcher
Miss Read
Ann B. Ross
Katherine Valentine
If you like Jonathan Kellerman, then try
Keith Ablow
Mary Higgins Clark
Michael Connelly
Robin Cook
Thomas Cook
Patricia Cornwell
Jeffrey Deaver
Nicci French
Lisa Gardner
Kay Hooper
Greg Iles
Faye Kellerman
Patricia MacDonald
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Thomas Perry
Ruth Rendell
Lawrence Sanders
Stephen White
If you like Stephen King, then try
If you like Dean Koontz, then try
V. C. Andrews
Piers Anthony
Clive Barker
Douglas Clegg
Jeffrey Deaver
Thomas Harris
James Herbert
Stephen King
Richard Laymon
Robert McCammon
John Saul
Dan Simmons
Peter Straub
Stuart Woods
If you like Jane Ann Krentz, then try
Mary Higgins Clark
Catherine Coulter
Barbara Delinsky
Julie Garwood
Heather Graham
Iris Johansen
Stephanie Laurens
Elizabeth Lowell
Judith McNaught
Barbara Michaels
Fern Michaels
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Nora Roberts
If you like Steve Martini, then try
Michael Connelly
Robert Crais
Philip Friedman
John Grisham
Paul Levine
Phillip Margolin
Lisa Scottoline
Robert Tanenbaum
Scot Turow
If you like Fern Michaels, then try
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Jude Devereaux
Jayne Anne Krentz
Debbie Macomber
Judith Michael
Linda Lael Miller
Karen Robards
Nora Roberts
LaVyrle Spencer
If you like Robert B. Parker, then try
Lawrence Block
Stephen Cannell
Raymond Chandler
Robert Crais
Dennis Lehane
Elmore Leonard
Sara Paretsky
Donald Westlake
If you like James Patterson, then try
If you like Jodi Picoult, then try
Elizabeth Berg
Christopher Bohjalian
Louise Erdrich
Jane Hamilton
Alice Hoffman
Sue Miller
Alice Munro
Luanne Rice
Anita Shreve
Anne Tyler
If you like Kathy Reichs, then try
Sarah Andrews
Beverly Connor
Patricia Cornwell
Tess Gerritsen
Carol O’Connell
Sara Paretsky
Lisa Scottoline
Karin Slaughter
Dana Stabenow
If you like J. D. Robb, then try
Sandra Brown
Suzanne Chazin
Catherine Coulter
Tess Gerritsen
Charlaine Harris (Lily Bard Series)
Tami Hoag
Jayne Ann Krentz
Carol O’Connell
Matthew Reilly
If you like Nora Roberts, then try
Susan Anderson
Maeve Binchy
Sandra Brown
Janet Dailey
Barbara Delinsky
Heather Graham
Tami Hoag
Linda Howard
Iris Johansen
Jayne Ann Krentz
Elizabeth Lowell
Judith McNaught
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
LaVryle Spencer
If you like John Sandford, then try
James Lee Burke
Michael Connelly
Jeffrey Deaver
Sue Grafton
Tony Hillerman
J. A. Jance
Stuart Kaminsky
John Katzenbauch
David Lindsey
Ed McBain
Walter Mosley
Robert B. Parker
James Patterson
If you like Lisa Scottoline, then try
Sandra Brown
Mary Higgins Clark
Janet Evanovich
Linda Fairstein
Julie Garwood
John Grisham
Steve Martini
Perri O’Shaughnessey
Sheldon Siegel
Scott Turow
If you like Nicholas Sparks, then try
Mitch Albom
Maeve Binchy
Nicolas Evans
Richard Paul Evans
Emily Grayson
J. Lynn Hinton
K. C. McKinnon
James Michael Pratt
Anne River Siddons
Robert James Waller
If you like Danielle Steel, then try
Elizabeth Adler
Maeve Binchy
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Catherine Cookson
Janet Dailey
Barbara Delinsky
Julie Ellis
Cynthia Freeman
Susan Howatch
Susan Isaacs
Judith Michael
Fern Michaels
Rosamunde Pilcher
Belva Plain
Luanne Rice
LaVyrle Spencer
If you like Stuart Woods, then try
David Baldacci
Lawrence Block
Mary Higgins Clark
Michael Connelly
Dominick Dunne
Janet Evanovich
John Grisham
Elmore Leonard
Brad Meltzer
Robert B. Parker
Lawrence Sanders
John Sandford
Scott Turow
