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If you loved Cape Fear

Books like Cape Fear

If you loved Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Manchurian Candidate (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Richard Condon

No. 2

Marathon Man

William Goldman

No. 3

The Bad Seed

William March, Elaine Showalter

No. 4

Six Days of the Condor

James Grady

No. 5

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Steven Spielberg

No. 6

The Omen

David Seltzer

No. 7

The Boys from Brazil

Ira Levin

No. 8

Psycho

Robert Bloch

No. 9

Alien

Alan Dean Foster

No. 10

The Howling

Gary Brandner

No. 11

Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining

Stephen King

No. 12

Braveheart

Randall Wallace

No. 13

The Other

Thomas Tryon

No. 14

Dances with Wolves (Dances with Wolves, #1)

Michael Blake

No. 15

Jaws

Peter Benchley

No. 16

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney

No. 17

Audrey Rose

Frank De Felitta

No. 18

The Odessa File

Frederick Forsyth

No. 19

Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)

Martin Cruz Smith

No. 20

Pay It Forward

Catherine Ryan Hyde

No. 21

The Amityville Horror

Jay Anson

No. 22

The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

Len Deighton

No. 23

Beaches

Iris Rainer Dart

No. 24

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty