Books like Gone Girl
12 books with a reading profile close to Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Inward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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Dark Places
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.
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Sharp Objects
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Camille Preaker, a journalist recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital, returns to her Missouri hometown to report on the murders of two preteen girls.
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Sunburn
thriller, narrative
Polly is a woman who leaves her husband and child and settles in a small Delaware town, Belleville, where she meets Adam, a man with his own secrets.
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A Nearly Normal Family
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Stella is an eighteen-year-old girl in Lund, Sweden, who is accused of the murder of a man in his thirties, whom she had been seeing.
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5
Girl A
by Abigail Dean
Also inward-looking and escapist · thriller, narrative
Lexie Gracewell, once known to the media as Girl A, escaped from her parents’ house of horrors where she and her siblings were starved and shackled.
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Vanishing Girls
thriller, narrative
Nick and Dara are sisters, once close, now estranged after a car accident that scarred Nick's face and left her with guilt.
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All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia, confronts a crisis when a school shooting leads to the death of a beloved teacher and the shooter himself.
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What the Dead Know
thriller, narrative
In 1975, two sisters, Heather and Sunny Bethany, disappear from a shopping mall in Bethesda, Maryland, and are never found.
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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.
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Ace of Spades
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo are the only Black students at Niveus Private Academy, and both have just been selected as senior prefects.
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The Girls in the Garden
by Lisa Jewell
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
When Clare moves her two daughters, Grace and Pip, into a communal garden square in London, she seeks a safe haven to recover from a domestic crisis.
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