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Books like The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is about unreliable memory and alcoholism, obsession and voyeurism, domestic violence. 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. Gone Girl
    Gone Girl

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    Gone Girl

    Gillian Flynn · Thriller

    On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne disappears from her home in Missouri.

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  2. Into the Water
    Into the Water

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    Into the Water

    Paula Hawkins · Thriller

    In a small English town, women have been dying in a river pool called the Drowning Pool for centuries.

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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. In the Woods
    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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  5. The Maltese Falcon
    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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  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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