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Books like The Girl Who Played with Fire

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 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    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.

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  2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    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.

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  3. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    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.

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  4. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    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.

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  5. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Killers of the Flower Moon

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    Killers of the Flower Moon

    David Grann · History

    In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.

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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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