iHCPL Books, Readers and Beyond: #52 What to Read Exercise 3

A customer tells you that he's read every book written by Dean Koontz and asks you to find an author who writes similar books. Using two of the sites listed above, find three new authors to recommend to your customer. Post the sites you used and the results in your blog.

From NoveList Plus Author Read-alikes I went to Joyce Saricks’s bibliographic essay on Dean R. Koontz. Among the authors she lists as read-alikes are:

Dan Simmons
John Saul
Charles Grant




I went to Library Booklists and Bibliographies and used its search feature. I entered the search term , "Dean Koontz," which directed me to a list of read-alikes including the Wake County Public Libraries, which had one entitled If You Like Dean Koontz, which listed these authors:

Greg Bear
Stephen King
Peter Straub

A bonus of the Wake County List was that it included annotations of specific titles by the authors.