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Books like Gone Girl

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is about marriage and performance, media and public narrative, gender and expectation. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. In the Woods
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    In the Woods

    Tana French · Mystery

    Dublin detective Rob Ryan is called to investigate a child's murder at an archaeological dig in Knocknaree — the same woods where, twenty years earlier, two of his childhood friends vanished without a trace and Rob was found clinging to a tree, bloodied and with no memory of what happened.

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  2. The Maltese Falcon
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    The Maltese Falcon

    Dashiell Hammett · Mystery

    San Francisco private detective Sam Spade is hired by a woman calling herself Miss Wonderly to find her missing sister — a lie within thirty seconds of the novel opening.

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  3. Dark Places
    Dark Places

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    Dark Places

    Gillian Flynn · Thriller

    Libby Day survived the Kansas farmhouse massacre that killed her mother and two sisters when she was seven.

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  4. Sharp Objects
    Sharp Objects

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    Sharp Objects

    Gillian Flynn · Thriller

    Reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to Wind Gap, Missouri — the small town she escaped a decade earlier — to cover the murders of two young girls.

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  5. The Girl on the Train
    The Girl on the Train

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    The Girl on the Train

    Paula Hawkins · Thriller

    Rachel Watson takes the same commuter train every day, passing the house where she used to live with her ex-husband Tom, who now lives there with his new wife.

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  6. A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill

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    A Time to Kill

    John Grisham · Thriller

    In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.

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