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Books like The Girl Who Played with Fire
The best books like The Girl Who Played with Fire are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson is about origin and identity, state violence against individuals, underground networks. 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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · Thriller
Mikael Blomkvist is a financial journalist in Stockholm who has just lost a libel case brought by a billionaire industrialist.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson · Thriller
Lisbeth Salander is in a hospital, recovering from the climactic violence of book two, and facing a murder trial.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · History
Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Killers of the Flower Moon
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David Grann · History
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.
A kindred thriller read.
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.
Read the summary → - Angels & Demons
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Dan Brown · Thriller
Physicist Leonardo Vetra is found dead at CERN with a symbol burned into his chest: the Illuminati ambigram.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Big Little Lies
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Liane Moriarty · Thriller
Big Little Lies begins with a death at a school trivia night and then spends its entire length working backward to explain how it happened.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blacklands
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Belinda Bauer · Thriller
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb lives in the shadow of an unresolved disappearance.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blindsighted
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Karin Slaughter · Thriller
Blindsighted is Karin Slaughter's debut novel, published in 2001, and the first book in the Grant County series set in fictional Heartsdale, Georgia.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn · Thriller
Libby Day survived the Kansas farmhouse massacre that killed her mother and two sisters when she was seven.
A kindred thriller read.
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Books like The Girl Who Played with Fire: quick answers
What are the best books like The Girl Who Played with Fire?
The best books like The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Girl Who Played with Fire, such as origin and identity, state violence against individuals, underground networks.
What should I read after The Girl Who Played with Fire?
A natural next read after The Girl Who Played with Fire is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre.
What books are similar to The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson?
The Girl Who Played with Fire centers on origin and identity, state violence against individuals, underground networks. Books with a similar feel include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, A Time to Kill by John Grisham — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
