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Books like Jim Rook: 9 series to read next

Jim Rook is horror, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Jim Rook is 8 books, 1996–2012.

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Exorcist
Hellraiser
Rosemary Reilly
The Shining
Jerusalem's Lot
Desperation/Regulators
John Cleaver
Necroscope
Jack Nightingale

ExorcistSeries

seriesWilliam Peter Blatty & Steven Piziks6 books1971

Horror, dark in tone, about demons, set in contemporary and north america.

“Other Exorcist books are tie-in and franchise material rather than further novels by Blatty himself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Exorcist →

HellraiserSeries

seriesClive Barker, Mark Alan Miller, Paul Kane & Peter Atkins5 books1991

Horror and dark fantasy, dark in tone, about demons, set in contemporary.

“Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart introduces the puzzle box that summons the Cenobites and the domestic horror story around it, later adapted into the Hellraiser film series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Hellbound Heart →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

About parenthood.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Rosemary's Baby →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About addiction.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Shining →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in small town.

“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
from the catalogue description

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About madness, set in small town.

“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Desperation →

John CleaverSeries

seriesDan Wells8 books2009

About madness.

Start with I Am Not a Serial Killer →

NecroscopeSeries

seriesBrian Lumley26 books1982

About vampires and undead.

“Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Necroscope →

Jack NightingaleSeries

seriesStephen Leather, Alex Shaw, Andrew Fusek Peters, Conrad Jones, Lynne Waterman, Matt Hilton & Robert Waterman39 books2010

Set in contemporary.

“Stephen Leather's series follows Nightingale as people around him start dying in increasingly inexplicable ways, forcing a skeptic into treating the occult threat as real.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Nightfall →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Jim Rook?: Exorcist — the closest match to Jim Rook on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Jim Rook?: Rook. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Jim Rook.
How big is Jim Rook?: Jim Rook is 8 books, 1996–2012.

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