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Books like The Whispers

12 books with a reading profile close to The Whispers by Ashley Audrain. Inward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

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.
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 clear-cut · thriller, narrative

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

Sur Ma Peau

by Gillian Flynn

Also escapist · thriller, narrative

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her Missouri hometown, Wind Gap, to profile the serial killings of two young girls.
5

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.
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

Still Missing

by Chevy Stevens

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, psychology

Annie Sullivan is a thirty-two-year-old real estate agent whose life changes when a stranger abducts her during an open house.
8

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.
9

Ace of Spades

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

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.
10

Sister

by Rosamund Lupton

Also escapist · thriller, narrative

Beatrice flies home to London from New York after her younger sister Tess goes missing.
11

Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

by Brian L. Weiss

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Brian Weiss, a psychiatrist trained in conventional methods, describes the case of a young patient named Catherine who came to him with anxiety and phobias.
12

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.

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