If you liked Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, Check these Books Out
by Mary Kay McBrayer
If seven episodes weren’t enough… if you binged the whole show in a matter of hours… if you loved Baby Reindeer and you must have more… then these six read-alike books might be what you should tackle next.
This novel followed the Puerto Rican Ramirez family of Staten Island. The middle child, Ruthy, went missing after track practice when she was twelve, and she’s been gone for years without a trace. That is, until one day twelve years later, the eldest daughter is watching a reality TV show called Catfight and a woman who looks exactly like Ruthy is one of the participants. She goes by Ruby, but her sisters know better. Now they’re determined to bring her back into the fold and find out just what happened to her.
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In this harrowing multigenerational saga, each member of the large Catholic Larkin family seeks a different path toward the American dream… all while dealing with the consistent presence of violence. In 1951, thirteen-year-old Myra Larkin meets a young man she’s convinced is Mickey Mantle. She’s obsessed with him, until later that night, there’s a triple homicide just down the street. Later, Myra serves as a prison nurse. Alec the former altar boy is banished from the family home. And the matriarch receives threatening postcards. All of these seemingly unrelated situations must amount to something. Something awful.
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This memoir is about Caleb Carr, a child who grew up in a home with the founding members of the Beat Generation. As such, his best friends were cats. And although this book seems like it’d be an autobiography of Caleb, it’s actually more of a biography of his longest-standing feline friend, Masha. She is his protector. His steadiest companion for seventeen years.
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In this memoir, journalist Annabelle Tometich receives a phone call from an inmate at Lee County Jail. She’s surprised to hear her mother on the other end, but it’s easy to explain to her siblings: “Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes.” But explaining it to her newspaper is not as simple. This book is about growing up as a mixed-race Filipina “nobody” in Florida, tracing her family history in both directions, one way toward her mother’s islands of origin, and the other direction to her father’s death in a Fort Myers motel.
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You might know his name from his book Big Fish, and this memoir/biography is a similar portrait of a man that Daniel Wallace loved and maybe idealized, his brother-in-law William Nealy. He was the coolest—an outdoorsman, author, and friend… but after William completed suicide at forty-eight, Daniel dove into the secrets of William’s past. This book is him coming to terms with the act that feels like betrayal.
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Carrie Sheffield’s dad was a street musician who believed he was a modern Mormon prophet. She and her seven siblings traveled across the country as vagabonds in sheds, tents, and motorhomes. Child protective services were always waiting in the wings, but Carrie was the first to escape the fundamentalism of their childhood—even that was after her father was excommunicated by the LDS church. This memoir follows her own resilient struggles with mental illness through her conversion to Christianity and pursuit of education.
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