Pop Culture Mashups

Sometimes publishers and reviewers use comparisons to other books, movies, or TV shows to describe a new book. Here are some recent favorites!

Updated November 20, 2024
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The eyes are the best part
Kim, Monika
Paper Book
'I was enticed from the first line' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 'An outstanding debut' NEW YORK TIMES This feminist howl-of-a-debut is...

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer

We used to live here
Kliewer, Marcus
Paper Book
You let them back in. You shouldn't have... Young couple Charlie and Eve can't believe the killer deal they got on an old house deep in the mountains. One day, a man knocks on the door. He says he lived there years before and asks if he can show his family around.

Get Out meets Parasite

Becoming Ted
Cain, Matt
Paper Book

A Man Called Ove meets “Ru Paul’s Drag Race”

The bump
Karger, Sidney
'Sid Karger has done it again, with this beautifully-written and timely story that resonates in a universal way. The Bump is a smart, deeply funny and heartwarming novel that perfectly captures modern parenthood, family and love. What a joy to read' ANDERSON COOPER Wyatt...

Fresh mix of Little Miss Sunshine and Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Wives like us : a novel
Sykes, Plum
Paper Book
'Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque' Sunday Times Style * Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcée, three rich wives, two tycoons, and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly...

The Real Housewives meets Downton Abbey

Teddy : a novel
Dunlay, Emily
Paper Book
'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style 'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan 'Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red 'Stylish and twisting' The Times 'A wild ride and a heck of a lot of fun' iNews Teddy has earned...

Lessons in Chemistry meets Mad Men


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