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Books like The Cuckoo's Calling
The best books like The Cuckoo's Calling are In Cold Blood, The Silkworm, and A Fatal Grace. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith is about celebrity and its costs, class and money, 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.
- In Cold Blood
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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.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - The Silkworm
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Robert Galbraith · Mystery
The Silkworm is the second Cormoran Strike novel, and it makes the wise structural decision to set its murder entirely inside the literary world — agents, publishers, authors, and the people who orbit them.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - A Fatal Grace
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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.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
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 loyalty and betrayal with The Cuckoo's Calling.
Read the summary → - True History of the Kelly Gang
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True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey · Historical fiction
Ned Kelly, the infamous Australian bushranger executed in 1880, writes a long confession to his infant daughter that explains — from his point of view — everything that led him to outlawry, armor, and the gallows.
Shares identity and performance and loyalty and betrayal with The Cuckoo's Calling.
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 → - Murder on the Orient Express
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
A man is found stabbed in his sleeping compartment on the snowbound Orient Express somewhere in Yugoslavia.
Both dig into identity and performance.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
Both dig into loyalty and betrayal.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
Both dig into loyalty and betrayal.
Read the summary → - An Ember in the Ashes
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Sabaa Tahir · Fantasy
An Ember in the Ashes is set in a Roman Empire-inspired world where the Martial empire has conquered and brutalized the Scholar people for centuries.
Both dig into loyalty and betrayal.
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.
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Books like The Cuckoo's Calling: quick answers
What are the best books like The Cuckoo's Calling?
The best books like The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith are In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Cuckoo's Calling, such as celebrity and its costs, class and money, identity and performance.
What should I read after The Cuckoo's Calling?
A natural next read after The Cuckoo's Calling is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. A kindred mystery read. Other strong choices are The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou.
What books are similar to The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith?
The Cuckoo's Calling centers on celebrity and its costs, class and money, identity and performance. Books with a similar feel include In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
