Thriller · Similar reads
Books like In a Dark, Dark Wood
The best books like In a Dark, Dark Wood are The Turn of the Key, The Woman in Cabin Ten, and The Silent Patient. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware is about memory and amnesia, female friendship and rivalry, isolation. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Turn of the Key
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Ruth Ware · Thriller
Rowan, a young nanny, writes a series of letters from prison to a solicitor she hopes will take her case.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - The Woman in Cabin Ten
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Ruth Ware · Thriller
Lo Blacklock is a travel journalist, freshly burgled at home and running on anxiety medication and too much wine, who has been sent on a press junket: a luxury small cruise through Norwegian fjords on a ship called the Aurora Borealis.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Silent Patient
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Alex Michaelides · Thriller
Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband five times in the face and then never speaks another word.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Woman in the Window
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A.J. Finn · Thriller
Anna Fox is a child psychologist who hasn't left her Manhattan brownstone in ten months.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - And Then There Were None
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast under various pretexts.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - My Brilliant Friend
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Elena Ferrante · Literary fiction
My Brilliant Friend is the first volume of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, following Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo from their childhood in a poor Naples neighborhood in the 1950s into early adolescence.
Both dig into female friendship and rivalry.
Read the summary → - Revelation Space
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Alastair Reynolds · Science fiction
Revelation Space opens in 2551 on a dead alien world, where archaeologist Dan Sylveste is excavating a civilization that vanished instantaneously nine hundred thousand years ago.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe · Classics
Robinson Crusoe is the fictional memoir of an Englishman shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island for twenty-eight years.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - The Atlas Six
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Olivie Blake · Fantasy
Six of the world's most powerful young magicians are recruited by the Alexandrian Society, a secret organization that has preserved forbidden knowledge since antiquity.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - The Martian
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Andy Weir · Science fiction
Mark Watney is accidentally left behind on Mars when his crewmates, believing him dead, abort their mission during a storm and launch for Earth.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - A Time to Kill
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John Grisham · Thriller
In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Along Came a Spider
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James Patterson · Thriller
Along Came a Spider introduces Alex Cross, a Black homicide detective and forensic psychologist working in Washington D.C., in the case that made James Patterson a bestseller.
A kindred thriller read.
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Books like In a Dark, Dark Wood: quick answers
What are the best books like In a Dark, Dark Wood?
The best books like In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware are The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin Ten by Ruth Ware, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with In a Dark, Dark Wood, such as memory and amnesia, female friendship and rivalry, isolation.
What should I read after In a Dark, Dark Wood?
A natural next read after In a Dark, Dark Wood is The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. Both dig into isolation. Other strong choices are The Woman in Cabin Ten by Ruth Ware, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn.
What books are similar to In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware?
In a Dark, Dark Wood centers on memory and amnesia, female friendship and rivalry, isolation. Books with a similar feel include The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin Ten by Ruth Ware, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
