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12 books with a reading profile close to Girl A by Abigail Dean. Inward-looking and escapist; an easy read.

1

The Whispers

by Ashley Audrain

Also inward-looking and escapist · thriller, narrative

On a quiet suburban street, the pressure of perfect motherhood shatters when ten-year-old Xavier falls from his bedroom window into a coma.
2

Yetiskin

by Gillian Flynn

Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative

Gillian Flynn’s novella, known as The Grownup in English, follows a narrator who provides fraudulent spiritual readings and manual hand jobs to earn a living.
3

Good Me, Bad Me

by Ali Land

Also inward-looking and escapist · thriller, narrative

Annie’s mother is a serial killer who targeted children in their family home.
4

The Echo Wife

by Sarah Gailey

Also escapist · thriller, narrative

Evelyn Caldwell is a renowned geneticist whose husband, Nathan, uses her stolen research to create Martine, a genetically engineered clone of Evelyn herself.
5

Dark Places

by Gillian Flynn

Also inward-looking and escapist · thriller, narrative

Libby Day was seven years old when her older brother, Ben, was convicted of murdering their mother and two sisters in a 1985 ritual killing.
6

The Push

by Ashley Audrain

Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative

Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, nurturing mother she never had, hoping to break a multi-generational cycle of maternal detachment.
7

The Female of the Species

by Mindy McGinnis

Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative

Alex Craft is a high school student who functions as a vigilante in her small town, three years after the rape and murder of her older sister.
8

Whalefall

by Daniel Kraus

thriller, narrative

Jay Gardiner is a teenager diving off the coast of Monastery Beach to recover his late father’s remains when a massive sperm whale accidentally swallows him whole.
9

Code Name Hélène

by Ariel Lawhon

thriller, narrative

Code Name Hélène follows the real-life activities of Nancy Wake, an Australian expat living in France during the 1930s and 40s.
10

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

by Matthew J. Sullivan

Also escapist · thriller, narrative

Lydia Smith is a clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore in Denver, a sanctuary for "BookFrogs"—the shop’s eccentric, marginalized regulars.
11

Sister

by Rosamund Lupton

Also escapist · thriller, narrative

Beatrice flies home to London from New York after her younger sister Tess goes missing.
12

This Is Where It Ends

by Marieke Nijkamp

Also escapist · thriller, narrative

Set over the course of fifty-four minutes at Opportunity High School, the narrative follows a school shooting from the perspectives of four students: Claire, Autumn, Sylv, and Tomas.

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