Books like The Push
12 books with a reading profile close to The Push by Ashley Audrain. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
Confessions
by Kanae Minato
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Yuko Moriguchi, a middle school teacher, announces her resignation following the death of her four-year-old daughter, Manami.
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2
Room
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Jack lives in a single, locked room with his mother, whom he calls Ma.
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3
The Other Black Girl
thriller, narrative
Nella Rogers is an editorial assistant and the only Black employee at Wagner Books, a prestigious but white-dominated publishing house in New York City.
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4
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
In an upscale Amsterdam restaurant, two couples meet for a multi-course meal to discuss a horrific crime committed by their teenage sons.
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5
The Perfect Nanny
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
The story opens with the discovery of two murdered children in a Parisian apartment.
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6
Fight Club
thriller, narrative
An insomniac office worker finds relief from his corporate boredom by engaging in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches orchestrated by Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap salesman.
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7
Notes on an Execution
thriller, narrative
Ansel Packer sits on Texas death row with twelve hours left before his lethal injection.
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8
Yetiskin
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.
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9
Sadie
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Nineteen-year-old Sadie Hunter disappears from her small town following the brutal murder of her younger sister, Mattie.
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10
The Silent Wife
Also inward-looking · thriller, literary
Todd and Jodi share an affluent life in Chicago, maintaining a twenty-year domestic partnership built on silence and denial.
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11
The Female of the Species
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.
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12
Girl A
by Abigail Dean
Also inward-looking · 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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