If You Liked That, Try This

At Pegasus, we love to recommend books to other readers. It’s part of our job, true, but we also genuinely enjoy it if we can find someone their next favourite book. And one of the best ways to do that is to know what books someone has enjoyed previously.

So now we’ve taken five best sellers and recommended you some of our books that we think you’ll just adore!

If you liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, try Chain Reaction by Wendy Goult

In The Lovely Bones, we saw heaven through the eyes of a  murdered child, and the life she left behind through the eyes of her friends and family.

In Chain Reaction, Kate Maple is an adult who arrives in the afterlife with no recollection of how this has happened, or of who has killed her. She is able to watch her friends and family, and the twists and turns of the police investigation as they work to find her killer.

This is no sugary, endless fields of flowers, birds and butterflies tale but draws the reader into a story of illicit love and secrecy, a love betrayed and a rage that takes away all reason but which ultimately leads the reader into a sense of wellbeing.

If you liked the Twilight series by Stephanie Myer, try The Mistry Trilogy by Claire Merchant

Love, vampires, shape shifters, this trilogy has all of the hallmarks of a great paranormal romance for young adults, but with a unique twist. And all set in Australia!

After a year in Europe, Taylor Mistry returns to South Coast a changed woman inside and out.

While some people barely recognise the person they have known for years, similarly Taylor doesn’t recognise herself, finding it difficult to fit back into her old life.

The once overweight young woman who felt invisible to everyone is suddenly getting attention from all sides: an old infatuation and a mysterious stranger are vying for her attention, while the handsome man who quickly stole her heart back in Italy is still in her thoughts.

Life seems more complicated than ever, but Taylor is soon to find out that it’s worse than even she realises. Her life is in danger but she’s not sure why. Are her suitors more than they appear? And does it all have something to do with an act of kindness towards an injured wolf?

If you liked the Maze Runner series by James Dashner, try The Luminous Illusion by Stephanie Dougan

Just like the boys waking up in the maze, Emma has no memory of her life before. As far as she’s concerned, she’s always worked for The Organisation. She has a job, a home and a direction in life. She should be happy. If only it weren’t for the dreams, which feel more like memories.

After a dramatic confrontation, Emma is rescued by the Resistance, and begins to realise the life she thought she knew is not the real one. But even this new life with Tyler, the literal boy of her dreams, might not be the whole truth.

If you liked Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, try Emily’s Journal by Sarah Fermi

Sarah Fermi takes a closer look at one of Britain’s most well-known female authors.

Why did Emily Brontë write Wuthering Heights? Was it purely the product of her juvenile imagination? Or did she experience a profound and tragic relationship in her adolescent years which coloured the rest of her life and was the emotional source for both her one novel and her heartfelt poetry?

Written as if in her own words, Emily's Journal explores in minute detail the possibility that Wuthering Heights was not entirely 'invented'.

If you liked Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs, try Deathcat Sally by P.S. Brooks

The second instalment in Riggs’ Peculiar series, Hollow City, sees the time-travelling group of peculiar children enter a new loop. Here they meet Addison, the talking bulldog, among various other odd creatures as their adventure continues.

If you are were a fan of the peculiar children, or dark stories tinged with lofty adventure, talking animals and time travel, Deathcat Sally is the book for you.

After seventeen-year-old Sally Rancher knocks over a cat named Zachary, it’s only the start of her nightmare. Trying to help, Sally is hit by a truck. Waking from a coma, she sees that half of Zachary’s spirit is fused to her shoulder and he can talk.

Able to communicate with animals, Sally finds when she falls asleep or becomes unconscious, both Zachary and her are pulled into No Man’s Land a dark, spine-chilling realm filled with vengeful animal spirits.

As No Man’s Land becomes ever more twisted and terrifying, Sally and Zachary become pivotal in solving a mystery that concerns not only them, but all life on the planet. If only Zachary could keep his mouth shut for more than five seconds, they might have some chance.

Who… or what… is responsible?