Mystery · Similar reads
Books like Murder on the Orient Express
The best books like Murder on the Orient Express are And Then There Were None, Homage to Catalonia, and The Trial. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is about justice and the law, collective guilt, identity and performance. 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.
- 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.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - The Trial
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Franz Kafka · Literary fiction
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - The Maltese Falcon
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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.
Shares identity and performance and moral ambiguity with Murder on the Orient Express.
Read the summary → - Death on the Nile
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
A luxury Nile cruise becomes the setting for one of Agatha Christie's most accomplished locked-room puzzles.
Both dig into identity and performance.
Read the summary → - The Cuckoo's Calling
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Robert Galbraith · Mystery
The Cuckoo's Calling was published in 2013 under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith and received modest but positive reviews before an anonymous tip revealed the author was J.K.
Both dig into identity and performance.
Read the summary → - Conversations with Friends
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Conversations with Friends is told by Frances, a twenty-one-year-old Dublin student who performs spoken-word poetry with her best friend and ex-girlfriend Bobbi.
Both dig into identity and performance.
Read the summary → - James
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Percival Everett · Literary fiction
James retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim — renamed James here — the enslaved man who escapes down the Mississippi with Huck Finn.
Both dig into identity and performance.
Read the summary → - Red Rising
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Pierce Brown · Science fiction
Red Rising is set on Mars in a far-future humanity stratified by color-coded caste: Golds rule, Reds mine the deep rock, and everyone in between occupies a precisely ordered place.
Both dig into identity and performance.
Read the summary → - The Blade Itself
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Joe Abercrombie · Fantasy
The Blade Itself is the first book of the First Law trilogy, a grimdark fantasy that opened with a deliberate challenge to the genre's conventions: the barbarian is not particularly heroic, the noble knight is not particularly noble, and the crippled torturer employed by the Inquisition is probably the most interesting person in the room.
Both dig into moral ambiguity.
Read the summary → - The Last Wish
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Andrzej Sapkowski · Short stories
The Last Wish is the first Witcher book to be published in English, though not the first written, and it introduces readers to Geralt of Rivia — a professional monster-hunter in a world that is running out of the kind of monsters worth hunting.
Both dig into moral ambiguity.
Read the summary → - The Player of Games
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Iain M. Banks · Science fiction
Jernau Gurgeh is the greatest game player in the Culture — an interstellar post-scarcity civilization governed by benevolent AIs called Minds.
Both dig into identity and performance.
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Books like Murder on the Orient Express: quick answers
What are the best books like Murder on the Orient Express?
The best books like Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie are And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Murder on the Orient Express, such as justice and the law, collective guilt, identity and performance.
What should I read after Murder on the Orient Express?
A natural next read after Murder on the Orient Express is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. A kindred mystery read. Other strong choices are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
What books are similar to Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie?
Murder on the Orient Express centers on justice and the law, collective guilt, identity and performance. Books with a similar feel include And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
