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Books like The Bourbon Kid: 9 series to read next

The Bourbon Kid is horror and thriller & suspense, set in contemporary and our world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Bourbon Kid is 3 books, 2007–2010.

“The first book in the series was initially written with the intent to make it a Western novel, with the author choosing to move the series to the present day partway through the book.”
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Jerusalem's Lot
The Shining
Finders Keepers (Stephen King)
Anita Blake
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
The Indian Lake Trilogy
Necroscope
Effective Engineering Solutions
Desperation/Regulators

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Eerie in tone, about grief and loss.

“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.”
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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About psychic powers and addiction.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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Start with The Shining →

Finders Keepers (Stephen King)Series

seriesStephen King7 books2014

Thriller & suspense and mystery & detective, tense in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and north america.

“The mix of true-crime procedural instincts and creeping horror is a hallmark of King's later work with the character.”
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Start with The Outsider →

Anita BlakeSeries

seriesLaurell K. Hamilton & Jonathon Green42 books1993

Urban fantasy.

“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
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Start with Guilty Pleasures →

Little Tall Island / In the Path of the EclipseSeries

seriesStephen King4 books1989

Psychological thriller, about survival.

“The first two novels share a real total solar eclipse as a pivotal, connecting event despite having otherwise unrelated plots and characters.”
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Start with Home Delivery →

The Indian Lake TrilogySeries

seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021

About survival.

“Don't Fear the Reaper and The Angel of Indian Lake complete the trilogy's three-book arc, published through 2024.”
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Start with My Heart Is a Chainsaw →

NecroscopeSeries

seriesBrian Lumley26 books1982

About 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.”
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Start with Necroscope →

Effective Engineering SolutionsSeries

seriesDouglas Preston & Lincoln Child37 books1995

Thriller & suspense and mystery & detective, tense in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and north america.

“Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child wrote it as a standalone techno-thriller in 2000; it later fed into their separate Gideon Crew series rather than getting a direct sequel of its own.”
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Start with The Ice Limit →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About survival and madness.

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

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 The Bourbon Kid?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to The Bourbon Kid on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Bourbon Kid?: The Book with No Name. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Bourbon Kid.
How big is The Bourbon Kid?: The Bourbon Kid is 3 books, 2007–2010.

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