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Books like Still Life

Still Life by Louise Penny is about community and belonging, art and seeing clearly, hidden resentments. 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 Cold Blood
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    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote · Memoir

    Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.

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  2. A Fatal Grace
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    A Fatal Grace

    Louise Penny · Mystery

    A Fatal Grace is the second novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, set in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines.

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  3. No Country for Old Men
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    No Country for Old Men

    Cormac McCarthy · Literary fiction

    No Country for Old Men begins in the Texas desert in 1980 where a Vietnam veteran named Llewelyn Moss stumbles on the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong: a ring of dead men, trucks, a cache of heroin, and two million dollars in a case.

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  4. Beloved
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    Beloved

    Toni Morrison · Literary fiction

    Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.

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  5. A Is for Alibi
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    A Is for Alibi

    Sue Grafton · Mystery

    Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California — Grafton's fictionalized Santa Barbara — recently divorced for the second time and living alone in a small apartment she describes with genuine affection.

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  6. And Then There Were None
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    And Then There Were None

    Agatha Christie · Mystery

    Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast under various pretexts.

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